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प्रश्न
What were the attempts made by the author to get his watch repaired?
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उत्तर
After a possession of 18 months, the author let his watch run down. Devastated, the author went to all possible watch makers starting from the chief jeweller, the very next day. The head of the establishment pushed the regulator of the watch a little too much, which did no good, rather worsened its condition. Then the author went to another watch maker who kept it for a week and slowed it down, however, too much. Then he went to another one who kept it for three days; and then couple of more. Even after having spent thousands dollars, none of the watch makers could fix the watch. Hopeless, the author gave it a last shot and went to a watch maker who turned out to be an erstwhile, not a good, steam-boat engineer. It was now that the author realised that “a good horse was a good horse until it had run away once, and that a good watch was a good watch until the repairers got a chance at it. ”
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B.1) Order :
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Hardships faced by Hanmant Gaikwad |
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