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Show LOANED WATCHES RAN AWAY I Timepieces Borrowed Prom Jeweler H Inherited Odd Habit of One Left to Do Repaired. Thcro ore several kinds of watches 'thcro nro gold watches, silver H watches, dollar watches nnd watches tho Jeweler has to lend his patients B whllo theirs nro being repaired. For tb a last ten days wo hnvo been U carrying a borrowed watch, relates a writer In tho Detroit Frco Press. Our tlmepleco was not exactly out of or- H dcr, It would run, but It hnd no con- H trol. It ran wild on tho bases. It stole the second and third hour frequently. Wo would set it nt eight o'clock nnd' look ut it 20 minutes later nnd dls- , cover that it waa 1C minutes pnst thrco. U ' Wo nro erratic, but wo weren't erratic H enough to keep up with thnt watch. H So wo took It into tho dry dock, whero tho ninn squints nt It through a sawed-' off telcscopo and tells you that It will cot $2 to Ox it. After he hnd told us It would costj H us $2 wo naked him to lend us n watch H until wo cnllcd for our own. This ho HJ did. IIo wound'up n ticker nnd act It. It wns 12 noon when wo took It from' H his hands. Two hours lntor n friend BJ asked us.thojlmc, nnd wo showed him H our wntclr. ft wna n quarter to seven. HJ "Gosh," ho said, "I didn't think it1 wns, thnt Inte. I overlooked dinner: tlmo In somo way." j HJ So wo went bnck nnd borrowed nn-. HJ . other watch from tho jowelcr. "This' HJ ono la O. K.," ho said with a smllo HJ Wo carried it for nn hour. In that tlmo It hnd Jumped 10 hours. Wc don't HJ know now when wo look nt It whether H it Is Ilerlln tlmo or tomorrow's time. HJ Wo can set it nt two o'clock, nnd when the city hall la ringing thrco our bor- HJ rqwed watch swears It Is 15 minutes HJ after four o'clock tomorrow. At frt Hj wo looked on tho watches suspicious-, mm ly, but now wo havo begun to suspect W ourselves. When thrco watches begin 1 to Ho to your faco something Is wrong. |