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    Clocks

    By Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      short essay on temperamental grandfather clocks with some sober reflections about time and eternity. a little gem of an essay and very funny to boot.

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    Clocks - Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

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    Title: Clocks

           From a volume entitled Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

    Author: Jerome K. Jerome

    Release Date: July 26, 2008 [EBook #855]

    Last Updated: January 15, 2013

    Language: English

    *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CLOCKS ***

    Produced by Ron Burkey, and Amy Thomte, and David Widger

    CLOCKS

    By Jerome K. Jerome

    Transcriber's Note:

    Hyphens have been left in the text only where it was the clear intention of the author. For example, throughout the text, tonight and tomorrow appear as to-night and to-morrow. This is intentional, and is not simply a legacy of words having been broken across lines in the printed text.

    The pound (currency) symbol has been replaced by the word pounds.

    CLOCKS.

    There are two kinds of clocks. There is the clock that is always wrong, and that knows it is wrong, and glories in it; and there is the clock that is always right—except when you rely upon it, and then it is more wrong than you would think a clock could be in a civilized country.

    I remember a clock of this latter type, that we had in the house when I was a boy, routing us all up at three o'clock one winter's morning. We had finished breakfast at ten minutes to four, and I got to school a little after five, and sat down on the step outside and cried, because I thought the world had come to an end; everything was so death-like!

    The man who can live in the same house with one of these clocks, and not endanger his chance of heaven about once a month by standing up and telling it what he thinks of it, is either a dangerous rival to that old

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