Sketches New and Old, Part 1.

SKETCHES NEW AND OLD, Part 1
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SKETCHES NEW AND OLD
by Mark Twain
Part 1.
CONTENTS:
PREFACE MY WATCH POLITICAL ECONOMY THE JUMPING FROG JOURNALISM IN TENNESSEE THE STORY OF THE BAD LITTLE BOY THE STORY OF THE GOOD LITTLE BOY A COUPLE OF POEMS BY TWAIN AND MOORE NIAGARA
SKETCHES NEW AND OLD
Part 1.
MY WATCH
AN INSTRUCTIVE LITTLE TALE—[Written about 1870.]
My beautiful new watch had run eighteen months without losing or gaining, and without breaking any part of its machinery or stopping. I had come to believe it infallible in its judgments about the time of day, and to consider its constitution and its anatomy imperishable. But at last, one night, I let it run down. I grieved about it as if it were a recognized messenger and forerunner of calamity. But by and by I cheered up, set the watch by guess, and commanded my bodings and superstitions to ...