Milford chronicle., 1893-01-20
a CLOCK ON A STRIKE.
lT WAS WORSE THAN AN INTERNAL
MACHINE m EFFECT.

a Devoted Brother Has an interesting
and disappearing Experience with .
Queer Going Timepieoe-what Was this
MATTER with the Clock.
This Is a story about clock which
made great deal Of trouble for two
people and gave the same two people
very poor opinions Of each other. The
brother says that no woman in the world
save his sister could have had such
amazing ignorance about clocks In gen
eral, and this one in particular, while
his sister declares that only her brother,
of all men on earth, would have allowed
q little bit Of a clock to make a fool Of
him before q carload Of strangers.
The trouble with the clock was that it
wouldn't keep time. There was no
reason In the world why it wouldn't; it
just wouldn't, and that was all there
was to it. This was painful to the
young woman for several reasons. It Is
only necessary to mention one; the
timepiece had been given to her by her
betrothed. He thought it was o little
gem Of a clock, and that it would please
her. She agreed with him as to the
beauty OF the delicate little affair, and
was pleased fora time. Then she began
to get worried; then she got nervous,
and lastly alarmed. This was all of
course because the thing would not 60,
and, because she feared he might think
she had broken it, or, worse still, as she
herself confessed between time, that she
hadn't sense enough to make a clock go,
while her irreverent and impertinent
brother suggested sweetly that he was
more likely to think that it was her
'tface which had stopped a clock. ."
The family were in the country when
the clock was received, and when the
time drew near for the arrival Of the |
betrothed clock giyer affairs began to be |
desperate. The young woman declared |
that that clock had to go. The clock /
simply wouldn't. She would wind it
up-it would always wind without the
slightest resistance-but it would not
go. She shook it, she turned it upside
down, she coaxed it, she laid it on its
face and then on its back, and the hands
were still froze to the face of the clock.
"Albert," she said to her brother,
''you must take this clock over to town
and get it repaired. It must be repaired;
it must 60"
Now town was ten miles away, and
Albert did not see why any one should
make so much fuss over a clock, and
such little clock, too, as that was. But
when arguments and pleadings could
not move him he yielded to tears, and,
chucking the timepiece under his arm,
he boarded the train and started for
town. In the car he placed the clock on
the seat beside him and rested his hand
on it. Then more trouble began. That
clock began to strike. 1t went into the
striking business in a calm, determined /
way. 1
1t struck right along, up grade and J
down grade, around curves and on !
straight tracks. The brother felt a .
fainting around his heart. The people
in the car who had first been amused
began to be annoyed. The young mans
face got red; it got warm; his hair be- L
came bathed with dampness, but he a
clung to the clock like Trojan. He y
had an idea that he might be able to c
hide it or smother it or close it, he C
didn't know which, and so he kept his Il
hand tightly pressed on it. d
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