Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 353
wo dogs having to choose their masters,one chose a king and the other a beggar. Why did you choose a beggar, asked thefirst, when you might be the dog of a king ? Because, answered the other, a king willtake less care of a dog than a beggar will. Thebeggars dog has always the company of hismaster,… … It has taken old Father Time along while to get the world intogood, regular running order as it is to-day. Formany hundreds of years people had very strangeand uncertain ways of telling time, for they didnot have any clocks or watches to mark thehours. In fact, they did not even know any-thing…
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