Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 471
eightstrokes of eight, the sixteen strokes which yourMajesty heard. Eh ? cried the king. But I heard onlyfifteen strokes, I tell you. It is neither civil nor quite safe to contradicta king, so the clock-maker shrugged his shoul-ders and kept silence. Well, if it really did strike sixteen at… … IT WAS NO TIME O NIGHT AT ALL, BUT EIGHT OCLOCK IN THE MORNING, REPLIED THE CLOCK-MAKER. slept twelve hours and more after hearing the tician, made a mistake in his counting, but he clock strike (which is hardly possible) it must was prudent enough not to say so.have been at eight in the morning…
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