Sivan's Talking Watch

 Excerpts from the diary of

Miss 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 became associated with the household of Sir Cosmo Cowperthwaite, Bart, during the first months chronicled. However, we have not been able to verify either her exact identity or her relationship to the persons named herein. - the Editors)

 The Adventure of the Dying Scholars

1. I Adopt a Desperate Plan

2. McGroaty Gets His Just Desserts

3. Edward Does Not Come Home!



The Adventure of the Felonious Phantom

 1. The Evil Book Jailor

 2. Strange Encounters

 3. Edward is Dashing

 4. Unfinished Business
   



The Adventure of the Castaway Cartographer

 1. I took a risk

 2. Dangerous Things

 3. Interrupted, again!

 4. A Noteworthy Discovery

 



Home to Roost

 1. I could just scream!

 2. The effrontery!

 3. Thank goodness

 4. The Tower
   



Exit Merrily, Pursued by Castenets

 1. A nasty piece of work

 2. Couldn't find demon
 



Death on the Iron Rhine

 1. Mechanical imbecile

 2. Must remember…

 3. A jolly time to have a war

 4. Scurrying off to some place else

 5.All a dither

 6. Vexed at me

 6a. Almost civilized

 6b. Back in London

 6c. Bullies

 6d. Cordially invited
   



Evil Takes No Holiday

 1.Shocking discoveries

 2. A waste of talent

 3. Too much to bear

 4. Mental deficiencies

 5. Studies progressing nicely

 6. I forgot I was wearing shoes

 7. Rubbish removal

 



The Puzzle of the Moss-covered Stone

 1. Oddities lying about
 

 3. Bigger than I anticipated

 3a. So condescending

 3b. A most flattering story

 3c. How could they think such a thing?



The Atlantean Debacle
or, a Girl and Her Submersible

 1. A curious man

 2. A jumped up bungler

 3. I failed

 4. In jail

 5. English women are crazy

 6. An unusual day

 7. An end to the matter

 8. The lack of nerve

 8a. Keeping notes
     



The Problem of the Heavnly Mechanism
or, the Divine Commodity
   

3. Dear Dr Wilson
 

7. A disturbing inclination 

7a. Our first library 
     

The Strange Tale of the Island Astray
or, a Reckoning of Relations



4. Wonderful day


 7. Amazing workmen    9. I have met Captain Nemo
10. Lack of proper facilities
11. Would rather have more cannons

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This page copyright 2001-2008 by Gene Breshears. All Rights Reserved.
Sivan's Talking Watch, the mechanism and phonograph disc published in De Natur page 32, 1895, which puts it well into the public domain.