By Talbot Baines Reed
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This is really a most unusual book. Told, we must imagine, by the
watch, we are led through the owner's days at a boys' boarding school,
to being stolen, pawned, auctioned, taken to quite another small town,
given to a brilliant local boy when he left for Cambridge, lost in a
field, found, and through further adventures being taken to India to
fight in a battle near Lucknow, finally making its way into the pocket
of its original owner, whose life was saved by the watch having
deflected a bullet.
It's well-told, too, and not too long, at under ten hours.
The copy we worked from was very browned, and it was not too easy to do
the transcription, but we have done our best: if you find anything
obviously wrong, don't hesitate to tell us about it. NH.
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THE ADVENTURES OF A THREE-GUINEA WATCH