What ud _it_ want a kay for ?" Duck laughed again at this.
"Paddy," said he, "next time you borrow a gentleman's watch be sure you ask 'im for the key, do you hear?
You want the key to wind the thing up--that's why he don't go." Paddy, who had sense enough to see that Mr Downie knew more about a watch than he did, held his peace, and took no trouble to refute the imputation on the way in which he had come by me.
Duck Downie having, with some difficulty, borrowed a watch-key, wound me up, greatly to my delight and that of my master.

It was delicious to feel the blood tingling through my veins once more, and to have my heart beat again with renewed animation.

My master's glee was only equalled by his astonishment.

He looked at first as if he suspected Duck Downie of being in league with supernatural powers; but when that eminent mechanic took the trouble to explain to him the value of the operation he had just performed on me, Paddy without a word rushed out, at the risk of all sorts of penalties, into the town, and knew no peace till he had possessed himself of a "kay," which henceforth became the inseparable companion of me and the watered ribbon..