Sketches New and Old

by Mark Twain · language: en

Vocabulary level: Intermediate · Flesch–Kincaid grade 10 · 3,658 sentences

Vocabulary level is estimated from word frequency, not an official CEFR classification.

Subjects: Humorous stories, American · United States — Social life and customs — Fiction

Words worth knowing: uncontrolled · limber · comeliness · reprehensible · misapprehension · coop · diffident · tidal

SKETCHES NEW AND OLD MY WATCH--[Written about 1870.]

AN INSTRUCTIVE LITTLE TALE My beautiful new watch had run eighteen months without losing or gaining, and without breaking any part of its machinery or stopping.

I had come to believe it infallible in its judgments about the time of day, and to consider its constitution and its anatomy imperishable.

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