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I A CLOUD WITH A SILVER LINING 1
II CHRISTOPHER MAKES AN ACQUAINTANCE 12
V CHRISTOPHER ASTONISHES HIMSELF 49
VI CLOCKS THAT WERE GOOD AS PLAYS 64
X AN AMAZING ADVENTURE 125
WHAT WAS IT THAT RENDERED THE FIGURE SO FAMILIAR? " 103
AH, WHAT AN EVENING THE TWO CRONIES HAD TOGETHER THAT NIGHT " 164
CHRISTOPHER AND THE CLOCKMAKERS
A CLOUD WITH A SILVER LINING
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.
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.
He had, to be sure, on the day of the baby's birth, deposited in the savings bank five hundred dollars to its credit; but what was money when weighed against being Christopher Mark Antony Burton, the fourth?
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