Copyright, 1925,
By Sara Ware Bassett.
All rights reserved
Published September, 1925
Printed in the United States of America
TO THE MEMORY OF
Richard Parsons, Simon Willard and John Bailey,
A TRIO OF CONSCIENTIOUS CRAFTSMEN,
WHOSE HANDIWORK STILL SURVIVES THEM TO CHEER MY
HOME AND TESTIFY DAILY TO THEIR FIDELITY AND SKILL.
S. W. B.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
|---|---|---|
| I | A Cloud with a Silver Lining | [1] |
| II | Christopher Makes an Acquaintance | [12] |
| III | Christopher Escapes Being a Hero | [31] |
| IV | An Encounter with the Police | [39] |
| V | Christopher Astonishes Himself | [49] |
| VI | Clocks That Were Good as Plays | [64] |
| VII | An Excursion | [81] |
| VIII | An Adventure | [101] |
| IX | Christopher Recognizes an Old Acquaintance | [112] |
| X | An Amazing Adventure | [125] |
| XI | The Sequel to the Letter | [137] |
| XII | Clock Giants | [147] |
| XIII | Clocks on Land and Clocks at Sea | [162] |
| XIV | How Rubies, Sapphires, and Garnets Helped to Tell Time | [176] |
| XV | Clocks in America | [187] |
| XVI | What Massachusetts Contributed | [202] |
| XVII | The Romance of the Watch | [217] |
| XVIII | Christopher Has a Birthday | [236] |
ILLUSTRATIONS
| "Those men—one of them took a ring—I saw him" | [Frontispiece] |
| "So you never saw an old fellow like this, eh?" | Page [24] |
| What was it that rendered the figure so familiar? | " [103] |
| Ah, what an evening the two cronies had together that night | " [164] |