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It is a gold hunting-case watch with a Swiss movement; loses five minutes a day; stem-winder; and the back cover, which does not bear any inscription, has upon it the indentations made by the molars of your son Willie when that interesting youth was cutting his teeth upon it." "Wonderful!" cried Johnson. "May I ask how you knew all that?" asked Solomon, deeply impressed.
I only speak of the oyster incidentally, as one of the objects toward which science has turned its attention, and I assert with the utmost confidence that the time will come, unless science should get a set-back, when the present hunting-case oyster will give place to the open-face oyster, grafted on the octopus and big enough to feed a hotel.
The Boy calculated carefully and exactly how many minutes it took him to run to Hubert Street from Brougham's or from Burton's; and by the middle of the second act his watch a small silver affair with a hunting-case, in which he could not keep an uncracked crystal was always in his hand.
Soon after the happy parents left, a watch came by express to the Magan homestead, and when Connor opened the hunting-case cover, after changing its position till he could see something besides his own twisted face reflected in it, and after wiping away the spray that would come into his eyes, he read: CONNOR MAGAN. From the grateful parents of MINNIE RIVERS. Was not her name a prophecy?
Then Lon Price comes back from cavorting with this amiable jade of the younger dancing set at the next table and Ben makes him put up his gold seven-jewelled hunting-case watch against the three and Ben wins again, now having four watches.
Reaching the curb alive the crossing policeman graciously halted a huge motor-truck driven by a speed-enthusiast he corrected the latest dent in his hat, straightened his cravat, readjusted the shoulder lines of the coat appertaining to America's greatest eighteen-dollar suit "$18.00 No More; No Less!" and with a fear-quickened hand discovered that his watch was gone, his gold hunting-case watch and horseshoe fob set with brilliants, that Aunt Clara had given him on his twenty-first birthday for not smoking!
She clung to his hand, while he still sat beside her. "Now," he said, cheerfully, "I am going to find out what time it is, by breaking the crystal of my watch. I've seen blind men tell the time by feeling the dial." His watch was an old hunting-case which had belonged to his father. He opened it and cracked the crystal with his pocket-knife.
One body the one with flesh on had a gold chain fastened to gold ear-rings, and a gold hunting-case watch with engine-turned engraving attached to the chain, and hanging down about the waist. He said when he pulled the chain it pulled the head up by the ears. This body also had a gold ring on the ring finger of the right hand.
On the chair beside his head he had placed his old-fashioned hunting-case watch, as big as an alarm-clock, the kind a railroad man would wind up with a spike-maul. Beside the watch he had laid his huge revolver in its worn leather scabbard.
It is a gold hunting-case watch with a Swiss movement; loses five minutes a day; stem-winder; and the back cover, which does not bear any inscription, has upon it the indentations made by the molars of your son Willie when that interesting youth was cutting his teeth upon it." "Wonderful!" cried Johnson. "May I ask how you knew all that?" asked Solomon, deeply impressed.
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