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Christopher and the Clockmakers

出版	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017-06-12
主題	Fiction / Literary
ISBN	15465149539781546514954
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=vN9RswEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋An educational adventure of Christopher. A young man who is out of school for some time to let his "eye's rest" by order of the doctor. He is not allowed to read, so to pass the time he goes to work with his father, who owns a jewelry store. While there he befriends an elderly clock repair man, and gets an education about the history of clocks.An excerpt from "Christopher and the Clockmakers".Christopher Mark Antony Burton was a tremendously imposing name to give a baby. When he lay in his crib, wee and helpless, he looked as if he might never survive the weight of it. Even later, when he began to toddle about on his small, unsteady feet, the sonorous pseudonym trailed in his wake, threatening to drag him down to an early grave.Nevertheless his father protested against the burden being lightened one iota. Christopher Mark Antony Burton he had been christened and Christopher Mark Antony Burton he must remain. Had it not been his father's, his grandfather's, and his great-grandfather's name before him; and all his life had not Mr. Burton longed for some one to whom to pass on the treasure of which he was so proud? And then on a happy day a son came upon the scene and presto, before the boy was an hour old, the ponderous appellation was clapped on his unlucky head.Mr. Burton, however, did not consider the child unlucky-not he! To bestow this signal honor afforded him infinite satisfaction. No gift he could have granted his heir could, in his opinion, equal-much less surpass-this one.