Don't you think you had better take it to the watchmaker?"

Yet I daresay the watchmaker could set the lock all right if he chose to try.

"Do you think the watchmaker could?" "That I can't tell, but I don't think it likely.

She stopped presently before a jeweller's and watchmaker's shop in the Brick Row, and eagerly scrutinized the long line of clocks standing in the window.

In order to become a watchmaker, a lawyer, an upholsterer, in short, all the liberal arts, study, application, and a special kind of knowledge are necessary; but nothing like that is required for a journalist.

It will be said perhaps, that the inward contrivance and constitution is different between these two, which the watchmaker has a clear idea of.

So he made use of a fortunate adventurer, originally a watchmaker, by the name of Beaumarchais who set up for a merchant, through whom supplies were sent to America,all paid for, however, out of the royal exchequer.

He belonged to the plebeian ranks, being the son of a watchmaker; was sickly, miserable, and morbid from a child; was poorly educated, but a great devourer of novels (which his fathersentimental as heread with him), poetry, and gushing biographies; although a little later he became, with impartial facility, equally delighted with the sturdy Plutarch.

'The new theory of the last oculist whose book I dipped intoa very amusing and interesting book, by-the-byeis that the sight improves and strengthens by constant use, and that an agricultural labourer, who hardly uses his eyes at all, has rarely in the decline of life so good a sight as the watchmaker or the student.

What would a man think of a watchmaker who should have the art to make watches, which, of themselves, should produce others ad infinitum in such a manner that two original watches should be sufficient to multiply and perpetuate their species over the whole earth?

And if this art is not in him, it must of necessity be in the Supreme Artificer that made that piece of work, just as all the art of a watch is in the skill of the watchmaker.

At a very early age he had disgraced himself by asking his mother whether he might be a watchmaker when he grew up, and his feeble sense on that occasion of the impropriety of an earl being anything whatsoever except an earl had given his mother an imperious contempt for him which afterward got curiously mixed with a salutary dread of his moral superiority to her, which was considerable.

His aspiration to become a watchmaker was an early symptom of his extraordinary turn for mechanics.

#WILLIAM PEARSALL, Manufacturing Silversmith,# Jeweller, Electroplater, and Watchmaker.

Your article on the "Patrons of Astronomy," in the Mirror, No. 328, brought to my recollection the following anecdote, for the truth of which I can answer, having received it from Mr. Watson, well known as the most celebrated private optical instrument maker in Europe, and at the time living on intimate terms with the late Mr. Arnold, the most eminent watchmaker of the day.

"Thomson the watchmaker and jeweller from London, was of the party.

4. The watch was repaired by the watchmaker.

The fuddy duddy watchmaker.

The counsel for the defendant replied that there was much valuable and brittle property in the watchmaker's shop, which would have been liable to robbery and destruction, if a promiscuous mob had been allowed to rush in.

Consequently a third trial became necessary; and the third jury brought in a verdict in favor of the watchmaker.

The author's real name was Caron, and he had been bred a watchmaker.

"Wishing to save his time, he began to have some work of that kind done by a watchmaker, who had retired from business, and lived on Datchet Common; but the work was so bad, and the charges [were] so unreasonable, that he could not be employed.

If he parted with them in Glaston, they would be put in the watchmaker's window, and that would be a scandalwith the Baptists making head in the very next street!

A couple of weeks later, when the correspondents were back in Berlin, Major Nicolai, of the War Press Bureau, sent for the correspondent, said to him that he knew of the occasion on which the American journalist had "left the party" in Lille, and demanded to know what had occurred in the watchmaker's shop.

"The little watchmaker, or watch cobbler, in the old curiosity shop.