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Title: Christopher and the Clockmakers

Author: Sara Ware Bassett

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CHRISTOPHER AND THE CLOCKMAKERS

[Illustration: "Those men--one of them took a ring--I saw him."
FRONTISPIECE. _See page_ 34.]

CHRISTOPHER AND THE CLOCKMAKERS

by

SARA WARE BASSETT

With Illustrations by William F. Stecher

Boston
Little, Brown, and Company
1925

Copyright, 1925,
by Sara Ware Bassett.
All rights reserved

Published September, 1925

Printed in the United States of America

TO THE MEMORY OF

RICHARD PARSONS, SIMON WILLARD AND JOHN BAILEY,

A TRIO OF CONSCIENTIOUS CRAFTSMEN, WHOSE HANDIWORK
STILL SURVIVES THEM TO CHEER MY HOME AND TESTIFY
DAILY TO THEIR FIDELITY AND SKILL.

S. W. B.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I A CLOUD WITH A SILVER LINING 1

II CHRISTOPHER MAKES AN ACQUAINTANCE 12

III CHRISTOPHER ESCAPES BEING A HERO 31

IV AN ENCOUNTER WITH THE POLICE 39

V CHRISTOPHER ASTONISHES HIMSELF 49

VI CLOCKS THAT WERE GOOD AS PLAYS 64

VII AN EXCURSION 81

VIII AN ADVENTURE 101

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