Class 11 English Elective ESSAY 1. MY WATCH प्रश्न बैंक - सह - उत्तर पुस्तक (Question Bank-Cum-Answer Book) Class 11 English Elective (ESSAY ) 1.
MY WATCH - Mark Twain MAIN POINTS ☞ My Watch is a humorous essay written by Mark Twain. ☞ The author bought a new watch
which had run eighteen months without any trouble. ☞ One day it ran down him so he took it to the chief-
jeweller. ☞ The head of the jewellery shop found it to be four
minutes late. He opened the watch and corrected it. ☞ Then it started moving faster and faster and was ahead
of thirteen days from actual. ☞ The author went to the second watchmaker who
recommended the cleaning, oiling and regulating of the watch. ☞ Even then the watch did not work properly and he took
it to another watchmaker. ☞ The third watchmaker found the barrel of the watch
swollen and took three days to reduce it. ☞ The watch behaved very strangely. It started barking,
wheezing, whooping, sneezing and snorting. ☞ He went to another watchmaker who repaired the broken
king-bolt of the watch but lost in another w…
