He pulled forth his own watch and looked at it.

"I make it two minutes after," he said, "and I was right this morning by the clock in the station in New York." "Two minutes past, eh ?" The boy below set his timepiece and slipped it back under his belt.

"It must be great to have a watch like yours.

I used to have one but I left it at the rink last Winter and it fell into the snow, I guess, and I never did find it.

Then I bought me this.