Miller, Olive Beaupré, ed, Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers), 1882-1945, illustrator · Chicago : The Bookhouse for children · leaf 257
hewest and another to the south, so that sounds entered fromdifferent quarters. Aria liked to leave these windows open sothat the sounds of the clocks might come in. Aria knew every clock by its tone, and she always made it apoint to lie awake until she was positively sure that the last strokeof… … It was not because she wanted to know thehour that Aria used to lie and listen to the clocks.She could tell this from her own little clock in herroom. This little clock, which had been given toher when she was a small girl, not only struck thehours and half-hours and quarter-hours, but therewas…
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