“I positively have never shown you the watch I got for him,” and with that he opened the drawer and produced me.
“Oh, Charles,” cried the mother, “how delighted he will be, and what a capital watch it is!”
And she looked at me affectionately for a long time, for her son’s sake, smiling through her tears, and then put me back.
Need I say that as these two knelt together that night, their only son was not forgotten in their prayers?
So ended the first day of my adventures.
Chapter Two.
How I was presented to a boy, and of a certain journey we took together.
Very early next morning, when my hands scarcely pointed to five o’clock, the little household was astir. There was a noise of hurried going and coming, and of trunks being carried down stairs, and for the first time I heard mingled with the sedate voices of my master and his wife, another voice, cheery and musical, which I at once guessed to belong to my future lord and master.