NEVER OCCURRED TO HIM

New Zealand Tablet, 25 May 1911, Page 981

NEVER OCCURRED TO HIM

‘ I don’t know why it is,’ said. Mr. Glossup, as he came downstairs red-eyed and sleepy, and greeted his guest, but J. never can get used to 'the-, striking of that clock in our room. It has such a loud, insistent “bang” when it strikes the hours that it wakes me up nearly every time. We ve had it in the house two or ..three wears, but I can’t become accustomed to it. We would have put it in the attic long ago, only it’s a present from my wife’s mother, and that would never do. Good clock, too, aside from that, but it worries me nearly to death. I wish ■ I knew what to do with it.’ r •. don t you wind merely the time-keeping part wound ?’ US S u est, ‘and let the striking part go unJohnson, you have saved my life!’ exclaimed Mr Glossup joyfully. ‘I never thought of that!’ -