HE GOT THE WATCH.
. Campos was returning home late one evening when someone brushed against him in the dark. Instinctivoly feeling his fob, he found his watch was missing. In a moment he had the miscreant by the throat, whilst in a voice choked with righteous wrath he eried — "Give me that watch or I'll brain^ you !" The wretched fellow* howling with terror, hastily handed a gold watch to tho irate Marshal, and immediately decamped. The victorious warrior walked proudly home, ascended to his bedchamber, and found that his own watch had all along been hanging on his dressing table 1
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Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 102, 27 October 1900, Page 2 (Supplement)
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101HE GOT THE WATCH. Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 102, 27 October 1900, Page 2 (Supplement)
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