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Aweel, Hutcheon, when he was asked, told them, that a ruinous turret, lang disused, next to the clock-house, only accessible by a ladder, for the opening was on the outside, and far above the battlements, was called of old the Cat's Cradle. It was a dangerous place to climb, for the ladder was auld and frail, and wanted ane or twa rounds.
The remaining part of the day was passed with great impatience, to see the effect of the Father's promise. When the sun was just on the point of setting, and many began to fear the accomplishment of the prophecy, in the very minute marked out by the Father, they discovered, from the clock-house of our Lady del Monte, two European ships, which were sailing directly from the north.
The present Cuts represent a few of the recent improvements in the Zoological Gardens, as, the addition of the clock-house and weathercock to the Llama House.
Passing Beaufort-row, we proceeded straight on to the turn leading to the Chelsea Clock-house.
Every Monday morning in the summer at seven, and in the winter at eight, the great bell in the clock-house at the Pantheon begins, and continues ringing for the space of one hour; in which time the magistrates of the Senate, being attended according to their quality, with a respective number of the ballotins, doorkeepers, and messengers, and having the ensigns of their magistracies borne before them, as the sword before the strategus, the mace before the orator, a mace with the seal before the commissioners of the chancery, the like with the purse before the commissioners of the treasury, and a silver wand, like those in use with the universities, before each of the censors, being chancellors of the same.
"We were best ask Hutcheon," said my gudesire; "he kens a' the odd corners about as weel as another serving-man that is now gane, and that I wad not like to name." Aweel, Hutcheon, when he was asked, told them that a ruinous turret lang disused, next to the clock-house, only accessible by a ladder, for the opening was on the outside, above the battlements, was called of old the Cat's Cradle.
"About five miles off, in the low ground, behind yonder plantations you may see the tower of the clock-house." "I will be there in a few minutes," said I, putting my horse in motion. "And I will go with you, and show you the way," said Diana, putting her palfrey also to the trot. "Do not think of it, Miss Vernon," I replied.
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