Show 19 DAD ds 01 A I 1 rk atal L aj my 6 WASTED MOMENTS 1 I wonder said the gold watch it if you find it the same frame as aa I 1 do of course replied the silver watch 1 I would be delighted to answer your question but I 1 dont know how to answer SN S N r it because I 1 dont really know what it was 1 I dont understand it either cither said the gun metal watch now the three watches were beside each cach other in tile the watchmakers watch makers shop they were all there to be mended though the chief trouble with the gold watch was that it had bad failed to keep the tha right time it had bad jumped ahead and then lost time la in the most astonishing fashion yes tes pray explain yourself said the IS silver ilver watch 1 I will said the gold watch lI hurry said the gun metal watch tor for weve no DO time to lose now don t be unkind said the gold watch for I 1 have lost time and I 1 have gained time I 1 have done just as I 1 saw fit about things and the reason for it Is very simple you seem to have reasons for ever tiling said the silver watch yes and you have a lot of talk about which we cant understand you ton are a very bright watch said the gun metal watch well im bright in a way said the gold watch because I 1 bin am of gold but I 1 will tell you first of all why I 1 have lone done these dreadful things bilings such as to lose and gain time in such a reckless way 1 I was made to look expensive I 1 cost a lot of money moncy that is I 1 cost a good deal or of money the creature who made me and the one who had me made were more anxious to make rue me look well than to have nie me act well abe they care what happened to me once I 1 was sold and they sold me for less than they usually would sell a gold watch vatch tor for because I 1 was so cheaply made inside i of course I 1 was expensive and in truth I 1 was very expensive for I 1 worth my price and that makes an object most tremendously expensive well you see my works were very poor I 1 was nervous and not well and strong and so I 1 go steadily one day id feel very fine and id go 0 wasted moments are such a pity dashing ahead trying to make up for lost time that of course a poor vatch can never do its never been expected of a watch and so a watch try to lo do it time goes right on no matter what we may do but you see I 1 would be so silly I 1 would go ahead so fast that it was as bud bad as though I 1 lost time many were the times when I 1 felt so downhearted down hearted that I 1 just drugged the hours away and lost lots of time the whole i hole trouble was that I 1 was trying to pretend that I 1 was something I 1 and that never does it if i creature Is what it Is and trying to be something else then it Is all right 1 I was trying to act like a fine gold watch and I 1 was really a poor gold watch I 1 was a humbug but it my fault it was the fault of the people who made me anyway now I 1 am here to be fixed up so I 1 can be what I 1 pretend to be a timekeeper but I 1 was going to ask a question when we began this talk I 1 was wondering if you both found atthe if the same way as I 1 did by it I 1 meant I 1 wondered if you both found people and their ways the same as I 1 did there are depole who dont appreciate po moments ments fancy that they think they can make up for moments which have been lost they dont seem to realize that the moments go marching on marching on and that they wont come back and that they wont lose step no a watch may often behave badly through its owners fault or the watchmakers fault but the moments march on into hours and they never turn back people dont seem to realize that they cant make the moments come back even it if they coax them beg them and implore them they dont make the most of those foluen moments is always and if they hey dont its ita all their own fault oh wasted moments menis are slid n when ilion enn |