Autobiography of Wrist Watch

           AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A WRIST WATCH

I am a tiny little thing but I am very useful. It is my duty to tell the correct time every minute. I teach people to be punctual and to keep their promises. I am going to relate to you today some of the adventures I have had in my life.

I was born in Switzerland which is well-known all over the world for the production of my kind. I was packed very carefully in a beautiful box and shipped off to different countries. I was to be a lady’s watch-so I was particularly tiny and attractive in appearance. I was placed in the glass show-case of a dealer where I continued to attract great deal of attention of all passers-by. I did not stay here long because in a few days a gentleman came and bought me up. I went with my new master to his house. He had purchased me to be made a present to his daughter on here birth-day. The young lady was very happy to get me. She proved to be a very good mistress to me. She kept me very carefully and I accompanied here daily to her school. I served her every faithfully. During her examinations I kept on telling her from minute to minute how much time she had left. She too treated me most kindly.

My good fortune was not destined to last long. On one unfortunate morning I slipped down from her wrist in a bus while she was going to school. I fell into the hands of a loafer who was overjoyed to find me, but I felt horrible when I fell in his hands. He took me and sold me to a man who gave me over to his wife. This lady was terribly careless and gave me such ill-treatment that my health soon began to fail and I could not do my duty satisfactorily her husband took me to a doctor who gave me along treatment. At the end of it I found my system a little more regular. My master got fed up with my repeated attacks of illness and decided to sell me off.

So I was taken to a petty shop and was sold off. Here I am lying in a little show-case and thinking over my by-gone days.