 201  «Good!» said Mark after an hour or so. «I think we've just about finished.» He began to put away his papers. «What time is it?» he asked. «My watch has stopped.» «About nine-thirty, I reckon,» I said. «Hold on a moment. My watch is here somewhere on the table.» I looked under my own papers, and then on the floor, but there was no sign of my watch. It was not in my pockets, either. «You didn't put it in your bag, did you?» I asked Mark. «Along with your papers.» He checked, but the watch was not there. «It's very odd,» I said. «I remember taking it off and putting it on the table when we started work. No one's been near us except the ticket collector — and he didn't pick it up!» «Someone came and cleared away the coffee cups,» Mark said. «I remember seeing a man with a big plastic bag.» The man with the plastic bag came from the restaurant car, one of the passengers informed us. I went along there to see him and I explained my problem. «Are you sure?» the man asked. «Look, there's the bag - full of rubbish. I don't want to empty everything out if you're not sure.» «I can't be absolutely certain,» I said, «but my watch was on the table. I'll look in the bag myself if you like. It's a very expensive watch!» «Well, in that case, we'd better have a look, sir,» the man said and emptied everything out on the floor. There, among the paper coffee cups, half-eaten biscuits and pieces of paper, lay my very valuable watch!. «Phew!» I said. «I think I need another cup of coffee after that!» «Sorry, sir,» the man snapped. «The restaurant car is closed. We're almost at London.» №23 Wherever you are in Britain, you are never more than 120 kilometres from the sea. So perhaps it is not surprising that the idea of the seaside holiday started here. The fashion began at the end of the eighteenth century and by the 1930s, twenty million more people used Britain's railways during August than in May or October. For a few weeks every year the whole of Britain seemed to be at the seaside. There were enough beds in Blackpool's hotels and guest houses for half a million holidaymakers. 201 |
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