Mary Carter Smith,? Mark Twain or Langston Hughes. "My beautiful new watch had run eighteen months without losing or gaining, and without breaking any part of its machinery or stopping. I had come to believe it infallible in its judgments about the time of day, and to consider its constitution and its anatomy imperishable. But at last one night, I let it run down. I grieved about it as if it were a recognized messenger and forerunner of calamity.But by and by I cheered up, set the watch by guess, and commanded my bodings and superstitions to depart. (Show 2 elements of the author's style.)