The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch

About this eBook

Author

Reed, Talbot Baines, 1852-1893

Credits

Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England

Language

English

LoC Class

PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres

Subject

Clocks and watches -- Juvenile fiction

Category

Text

eBook-No.

21035

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21035

Release Date

April 11, 2007

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2."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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