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Aunt Mary's illustrated reading book : with more than three hundred illustrations (1855)

London ; New York : G. Routledge · leaf 100

An illustration from Aunt Mary's illustrated reading book : with more than three hundred illustrations, 1855, leaf 100
long hand gets to VII, it is five-and-twentyminutes to One; when it is at VIII, it is twenty minutesto One; when at IX, a quarter to One, and so on: tenminutes to One, five minutes to One, round to figure XIIagain. The short hand then points to I, and it is Oneoclock. So that in an hour the long… … Lis-ten to the Par-lour Clock!To it-self it e-ver talks,From its place it ne-ver walks ; Tick-tock—tick-tock. Tell me what it says. Im a ve-ry truth-ful Clock : Peo-ple say, a-bout the place,Truth is writ-ten on my face; Tick-tock,—tick-tocko That is what it says, Im a very ac-tive Clock, For I go…

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