Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-09

see if his nails were clean. He wiped his nose with the sheet and lay quiet. Suddenly he heard a great bang and saw the new cannon Auntie had brought him shivered into thousand bits before he had even touched it: 1t was the postman's s k11oek-Fridayl &
 He was dressed for tea immediately after breakfast "Tf you worry any my; "what & fuss about rocking horse"
 "A rocking horsel We'll, if it had stirrups, and a bridle, and went itself! Auntie said it was something special" :"
 What teal The bread and butter would not go down his throat, and the cake merely went round and round the roof of his mouth. He never knew his father to eat so much and so slowly be- fore.
 Can you tell the time by the clock ?' Auntie asked him. Were~they going to start these silly questions again ? "No," said he, mol"
 "Oh, well, I'm afraid I've made 8 mistake. There" she said, and passed paper parcel to him. Open it."
 He took off the paper and found a box. He opened the lid and found a round thing i'm paper, He undid the paper, and there was his present be- fore he knew: real. live, ticking watch, and @ chain. It fairly laughed at him; the great figures glowered solemnly: 12, 1, 9, 3, 4, 5; and then a little hand that ran faster the more he looked at it. He held 1t to his ear and 1t clucked with joy. He put it ir his pocket and it seemed to go out, s> he brought 1t forth again and pro posed to wear it hanging down outside like the ladies. Finally he set it dowr on the table, gazing at it and lingering it while he ate bread and cake and drank sweet tea voraciously.
 His first really proud moment was when the nurse wished she had watch In the future he was only to go to bee | by his own watch. By Mummy's di rections it was placed under his pil low. The nightly programme of tuck ing in and kisses was duly performed and Mummy gone away, when she was | called back by loud alarm: Mummy I can't hear it." So it was tied to ths rail of the bed where the great stal shone upon it in wonder and envy "I suppose he thought, "the angels have gold watches" At midday on Saturday, Lucy Browr | passed the garden with her best doll ir company of the nursemaid and the per ambulator. He rushed down to the gate and thrust his chained bosom be fore Lucy Brown. She affected to see nothing. After giving her ample time withou effect he pulled out the watch gazed at it, and said: You're late this morning" ..
 "oh," said she. "Bertie has goit one"
 You're story-teller," said he "isn't she, Mary?" Mary, whose notic. was running out, answeredi Awful
 For two days the watch was wound every hour. On Monday there was dire disappointment because he was no permitted to take it to school. Could nit just take it to show the boys l and put it out of sight then?" A com promise was arrived at. There would l pc a Uea-parIy, put one or the couod tions insisted upon was that no boy known to possess a watch was to b. invited.
 One day big boy friend stopped him with a firm hand and mockinglJ asked the time. The watch-owner tool 1t out mechanically, then with 8 fias1 of inspiration held 1t up to the big boy and said: "I didn't think it was SC 1 latei" and rushed off for home.
 After all a watch is very quiet sort of toy, and requires to be left alont too much. At the end of the first weel this one suffered from over-winding and had to be started by violent shak ing. When everybody knew he had z watch it became necessary for the bearer of it to assure himself of its possession occasionally by swinging it round and round on its chain. Ont day in the middle of this performance it flew off the swivel and landed in ths conservatory by way of a pane of glass
 It is now supposed to be at tht watchmaker's undergoing repairs London Outlook.