t cost for repairs 110/. The chief attractionof this time-teller consisted of two giants strikingthe hours and the quarters on a couple of bellssuspended above them. Cowper, in his TableTalk, alludes to the figures :— When labour and when dullnes, club in handLike the two figures at St. Uunstans… … Giants at Old St. Dunstans Church, London. JACK OF THE CLOCK-HOUSE. 207 Fortunes of Nigel he refers to the savages,and places them in a period before they wereknown to the public of London. The mechanism of the figures is described asbeing rough and clumsy, and the metal and cordmight be seen…
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