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Show MACDONALD AS A JEWELER Famous Soldier Proud of His Home-Made Home-Made Watch Crystal. When the late Gen. Macdonald last visited his relatives in Scotland he wore a very curious watch. The curiosity did not lie in the watch itself, which was of large size, but in the glass, which was rough and thick, but served its purpose as well as another. Macdonald was very proud of this glass and told its story with much circumstance. One day during the Soudan campaign he had broken the original glass, and was puzzled to find a substitute for it in the desert. des-ert. At last, however, he smashed a tumbler. The bottom he ground on a stone until it was fine enough, and the size he shaped until it fitted tightly into the setting. And so good was the handiwork that it lasted until he returned home. He never had it removed. |