The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch
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Then you can guarantee it to be a good one to go? "You couldn't have a better, sir." "And it will stand a little roughish wear, you think?" "I'm sure of it, sir; it's an uncommon strong watch." "Then I'll take it." These few sentences determined my destiny, and from that moment my career may be said to have begun.
Chapters (60)(click to expand)
- Talbot Baines Reed "The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch"
- Chapter One.
- My infancy and education—How I was sold and who bought me.
- Chapter Two.
- How I was presented to a boy, and of a certain journey we took together.
- Chapter Three.
- How my master and I reach Randlebury in state, and of a great calamity.
- Chapter Four.
- How I was cured of my ailments, and how my master began life at Randlebury.
- Chapter Five.
- How my master entered and quitted the head master’s study twice in one morning.
- Chapter Six.
- How my master had both his friends and his enemies at Randlebury.
- Chapter Seven.
- How a pleasant treat in store was prepared for my master.
- Chapter Eight.
- How my master did not catch the fish he expected.
- Chapter Nine.
- How my master and I had quite as much excitement in one afternoon as was good for us.
- Chapter Ten.
- How I changed hands and quitted Randlebury.
- Chapter Eleven.
- How Tom Drift made one start in London, and prepared to make another.
- Chapter Twelve.
- How Tom Drift begins to go downhill.
- Chapter Thirteen.
- How Tom Drift, still going downhill, met my old master.
- Chapter Fourteen.
- How Tom Drift parted with his best friend.
- Chapter Fifteen.
- How I found myself in very low company.
- Chapter Sixteen.
- How I changed masters twice in two days, and after all found myself in pawn.
- Chapter Seventeen.
- How Tom Drift gets lower still.
- Chapter Eighteen.
- How I was knocked down by an auctioneer, and picked up by a countryman.
- Chapter Nineteen.
- How, after much ceremony, I found myself in the pocket of a genius.
- Chapter Twenty.
- How my new master made trial of a pursuit of knowledge under difficulties.
- Chapter Twenty One.
- How my master fared at Saint George’s College and met an old acquaintance of the reader’s there.
- Chapter Twenty Two.
- How my master and I went out to breakfast, and whom we met.
- Chapter Twenty Three.
- How Jim’s uncle and aunt spent a different sort of day from that which they had expected.
- Chapter Twenty Four.
- How George Reader went up for his final examination and left me behind him.
- Chapter Twenty Five.
- How I fall into the hands of an old friend.
- Chapter Twenty Six.
- How I was unexpectedly enlisted in a new service, in company with an Irishman.
- Chapter Twenty Seven.
- How I made a long journey, and reached the happiest moment of my life.
- Chapter Twenty Eight.
- How I saved my master’s life, and retired from active service.
- Chapter Twenty Nine.
- Which brings my adventures to a close.
- The End.
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