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If you have a watch,don't repair it!I know it1.Once I had a beautiful watch.And this watch2perfect time. But one night it happened that I forgot to3it up.Next morning I went to a watchmaker as I wanted my perfect watch to_4by the exact time.The watchmaker examined my watch and said:“The regulator（校准器）is to be pushed up5our watch is four minutes6.”
I tried to stop him,tried to7him understand that my watch kept perfect time,but he did not listen to me and pushed the regulator.
My beautiful watch began to gain time.It8faster and faster day by day.By the end of the second month it 9all the clocks and watches of the town far behind.
What did I have to do?To take it to another watchmaker to be regulated.I expected him to regulate the watch immediately10he asked me to come in a week's time.When at last I took my watch from him it began to11down. And I began to be late for trains,business appointments and even missed my dinners.
Now I went to12watchmaker.While I waited for him to repair my poor watch,he13it to pieces and said that he could finish this work14three or four days.I could do nothing but 15. That time my watch went for half a day and then stopped.
So I kept16my watch from one watchmaker to another for a considerable period of time.And as a result of it the cleverest man in the world could not17the time by my watch.The thing was getting18.My watch had19 two hundred dollars originally but I paid for repairs more than two hundred.At last I decided to buy20watch,which I did.
