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Show LOANED WATCHES RAN AWAY' Timepieces Borrowed From Jeweler Inherited Odd Habit of One Left to Be Repaired. ! There are several kinds of watches there ft re gold watches, silver watches, dollar watches and watches the Jeweler has to lend his patients while theirs are being repaired. For the Inst ten days we have been carrying a borrowed watch, relates a writer In the Detroit Free Press. Our timepiece was not exactly out of order, or-der, It would run, but It- had no control. con-trol. It ran wild on the bases. It stole the second and third hour frequently. We would set It at eight o'clock and look at it 20 minutes later and dts cover that It was 15 minutes past three. We are erratic, but we weren't erratic enough to keep up with that watch.; Bo we took It Into the dry dock, where; the man squints at it through a sawed-ofl sawed-ofl telescope and tells you that It will cost $2 to fix It. After he had told us It would cost as $2 we asked him to lend us a watch' until we called for our own. This he did. He wound up a ticker and set it. It was 12 noon when we took It from his hands. Two hours later a friend: asked us the time, and we showed him our watch. It was a quarter to seven. , "Gosh," he said, "I didn't think It was that latel I overlooked dinner time In some way." ! So we went back and borrowed an-, ther watch from the jeweler. "This;' one Is 0. K.," he said with a smile.; We carried it for an hour. In that time It had jumped 18 hours. We don't know now when we look at it whether Ct Is Berlin time or tomorrow's time.' We can set it at two o'clock, and when th city hall Is ringing three our borrowed bor-rowed watch swears It Is 15 minutes after four o'clock tomorrow. At first we looked on the watches suspicious-' ly, but now we have begun to suspect ourselves. When three watches begin' to lie to your face something Is wrong. |