Tick, Tick
(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) WILMINGTON (Delaware). A lonely Baptist meeting house graveyard near Wilmington has a ticking tombstone. The oblong tombstone lies flat and is inscribed with the initials “R.C.” If you place your ear next to the stone you will hear a ticking sound, believed to be caused by the dripping of water underneath. Local superstition maintains that the person buried there swallowed a certain Jeremiah Dixon’s chronometer when he was running the nearby railway line, and that the chronometer, after ticking all through his life, can still be heard in the tombstone.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30390, 14 March 1964, Page 2
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94Tick, Tick Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30390, 14 March 1964, Page 2
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