Sivan's Talking Watch

The Diaries of Wilhelmina Brody

(Gentle reader: This manuscript came into our possession without note or explanation. The handwriting is a very compact, somewhat florid script. Internal evidence indicates that the author is associated with the household of Sir Cosmo Cowperthwaite, Bart. However, we have not been able to verify either her exact identity or her relationship to the persons named herein. - the Editors)

April 23,1870
The London theater is giving a performance of Macbeth tonight, I think I will go to celebrate Shakespear's birthday.

April 25, 1870
Edward got fitted for a new set of clothing today. He was quite upset, he said he would rather have the ghost choking him again than wear a starched collar.

April 27, 1870
Edward does look quite dashing in his new clothing, he is off to the ball with the rest of the household it's strangely quiet around here.

April 28, 1870
Edward was quite lucky last night, There was a card game going when he arrived in the kitchen he quickly noticed that the deck was marked and started to mark cards at random in the same manner. The cheater was soon forced to have to rely on luck. Edward also mentioned that Miss Namaste was "A Lady of great importance from India." Several of the servants hearing this leapt to the conclusion that she was foreign royalty and the rumor mill did the rest. I confiscated Edwards winnings: 1 pound 6 shillings and 8 pence.


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Sivan's Talking Watch, the mechanism and phonograph disc published in De Natur page 32, 1895.