I say, would you like to know the time now, Tom Drift ?" All this was rattled out with such eager volubility, that Tom Drift, hero as he was, was fairly taken aback, and looked quite sheepish, as the beaming boy proceeded to pull me out of his pocket.
"Well, it's just--hullo!" He saw in an instant something was wrong.
"Why, it says only half-past six--that must be wrong!" "It's eight o'clock by the hall clock," said Mrs Packer; "it's just now struck." Charlie looked at me, opened me, held me to his ear, and then exclaimed,-- "Oh! my watch has stopped! My watch has stopped! What shall I do ?" and the poor boy, overwhelmed with his misfortune, held me out appealingly, and scarcely restrained the tears which started to his eyes..