A WATCH LOST AND FOUND.
Mr Willard J. Parker, proprietoi of the Mineral Spring Stock and Pasture Farm, at Junction City, Kans., writes in regard to a Waterbury watch:— Four years ago I had a boy working for me, and some time in August 1885, he traded for a Waterbury, and boylike, he scratched his initials on the back cate. He lost the watch in the hayfield the second day after trading for it, and could not find it. A few days since n>y little girl while raking hay saw something glisten j when the horse and raka had passed over, she ran to it, and behold, it was a Waterbury. She brought it to me, and there were the scratched initials, proving it to bo the watch that was lost four yeara ago. Sicoo the watch was lost I have mode hay on the ground three times, and have had three prairie firea pasa over the watch ; yet when my daughter brought the watch to me, I wound it up, and waa aurprised to aee it begin running, and atill more so to find that it keeps accurate time. lam carrying the watch myself. The crystal was cracked, and the case aomewhat tarnished, but otherwise none the worse for wear. The watch is quite a treasure in the family. The children each want to wind the " ticker " aa they call it.
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Timaru Herald, Volume L, Issue 4797, 20 March 1890, Page 4
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232A WATCH LOST AND FOUND. Timaru Herald, Volume L, Issue 4797, 20 March 1890, Page 4
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