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Updated: May 11, 2025
Why, he goes like clockwork. I just winds him up once with a bit o' corn and a drink o' water, starts him, and there's his old legs go tick-tack, tick-tack, and his head swinging like a pendulow. Use 'is secon' natur', and all I've got to do is to tie up the reins to the fore ladder and go to sleep if I like, for he knows his way as well as a Christian.
In a moment, quite talkative, and as though she wished to distract Rouletabille's attention from the sounds above, the broken words and sighs, she continued: "See, you speak of clocks. My husband has a watch which strikes. Well, I have stopped his watch because more than once I have been startled by hearing the tick-tack of his watch in his waistcoat-pocket.
"A hobby is the best thing in the world for a man with a serious vocation. It keeps him from getting muscle-bound in his own task. It helps to save him from the mistake of supposing that it is his little tick-tack that keeps the universe a-going.
"To be sure, ma'am, to be sure, a nice young lady, and so cheerful," said the good woman, bustling off to wind up the tall old clock with the wise-looking face, that had been allowed to run down since Hadria's last visit. "Seems more cheerful like," observed the caretaker, as the steady tick-tack began to sound through the quiet room. "And have you fed my birds regularly, Mrs.
A look of interest appeared on the face of the lank youth. "That instrument seems to be talking to you," said Prescott. "Yes, it's saying a few words," replied the operator. "Tick-tack, tick-tack, tick-tack!" went the instrument. "It's a friend of mine farther up the line," said the boy. "Would you like to hear what he's saying?" "If you don't mind," replied Prescott.
Soon, moreover, he worked with increasing rapidity, gloating over the massacre with glistening eyes, squatting there like a huge delighted bull-dog enjoying the sight of slaughtered vermin. "Tick-tack! Tick-tack!" whilst his tongue clucked as an accompaniment to the rhythmical movements of his knife. The pigeons hung down like wisps of silken stuff.
"Ain't you every day sayin' there's always to-morrow?" This time her voice was toned with finality, and she turned and went out. Virginia and Lafe Grandoken sat for some time with nothing but the tick-tack of the hammer to break the silence. "It bein' the first time you've visited us, kid," broke in the man, pausing, "you can't be knowin' just what's made us live this way."
In another corner stands a tall clock which emits a sonorous tick-tack, as its carved hands travel slowly around its enameled face. Here is a secretary, black with age, side by side with a massive iron tripod. Upon the mantel is an immense terra-cotta candlestick which can be transformed into a three-branched candelabrum by turning it upside down.
Though her spirit was untamed, the burden of her years compelled her to a tranquil life. She, who formerly never missed a bull-baiting, must now content herself with tick-tack. Her fortune, moreover, had been wrecked in the Civil War. Though silver shells still jingled in her pocket, time was she knew the rattle of the yellow boys.
No, I would not. "He says tick-tack to the clock," Irene said, trying to snare me. "Pooh!" said I. "Other little 'uns jest says 'tick-tick," she told me, with a flush of pride. "I prefer 'tick-tick," I said, whereat she departed in dudgeon.
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