The Fate of the Clock.

Thames Star, Volume XX, Issue 4715, 13 September 1888, Page 1

The Fate of the Clock.

A peasant went to a jeweller to bay a clock, and the shopkeeper placed before him a timepiece of handsome finish, and said : 1 Here ii something I can warrant. No clock can be more reliable.' It was purchased and taken home and placed on a shelf. Hearing itself so well spoken of by the jeweller, the clock determined to put on its best face. It found itself in company with a musket, several pictures, a rase, and a watch out of repair, and had been running only one day when the rase remarked : ' Let me give you a bit of advice: If yon want to please ohr tnsßter, gaio a few minutes' time every tweniy-fonr hoara." No sooner had the clock agreed than the musket said: ' And please don't strike so loudly, as the mistress is very nervous/ Then one of the pictures observed: 1 Make yourself solid with the children by losing half an hour every night, so they can Bleep later in the morning' , The clock set out to oblige all and to follow each piece of advice, and the resalt was that the peasant returned it to the jeweller within a week, and slammed it down and said: ' Oh, liar, deceiver, and , fraud, this clock is not worth powder to blow it up! Give me back my money, or I'll mop the floor with your carcass!' mob At: Don't try to be too slathering sweet to everybody, and don't try to follow everybody's advice.