THE MINER AND HIS WATCH
A miner of Scherlebeck in Westphalia, on coming to the surface at tho end of a day's work, discovered that his gold watch was missing. lb was his most precious possession and had belonged to his father, and with a heavy heart ho wont down the pit again and began what he expected to be a hopeless search. His comrades insisted on going with him, and by tho light of their lamps they moved block# of coal and raked among the dust, but not a trace could they find of it. It was given up as lost. Ono day the miner had surprising news; tho watch had turned up in some gasworks at Braunschweig, 250 miles away! He must have dropped it among coal which was shovelled into a truck. The inscription engraved on the watch enabled tho owner to be traced, and soon a parcel arrived at Scherlebeck, and the delighted miner saw again his familiar old friend, which had told him the time so often as it ticked away the hours below ground.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22444, 13 June 1936, Page 9 (Supplement)
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