The Family Circle

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 22, 3 June 1909, Page 877

The Family Circle

HOW TO TELL THETIME I've jes' learned how to tell the time, My mother teached me to ; An' ef you think you'd like to learn, I guess I might teach you. At first, though,; it's as hard as fun, An'- makes you twist and turn, An' mother says that they is folks, Big folks, what never learn. You stand before the clock, jus' so, -^,m, m An' start right at the top ; '*"'**' That's twelve o'clock, an' when you reach The little hand, you stop ; Now, that's the hour, but you've got To watch what you're about, Because the hardest part's to come — To find the minutes out. You go right back again to where You started from, an' see How 'far the minute han's away, Like this — you're watchin' me? — An' when you've found the minute hand You multiply by five, An' then you've got the time o' day, As sure as you're alive. They's folks, I know, what says that they Don't have to count that way, That they can tell by jus' a glance At any time o' day; But I don't b'lieve no fibs like that, Because ef that was true, My ma would know it, but she showed Me like I'm showin' you.