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Updated: May 24, 2025
And presently nothing was to be heard but the steady ticking of the clock on the mantel. Then Mr. Jeminy, for once, could find nothing to say. It seemed to him that instead of the clock's ticking, he heard the footsteps of death in the house, on the stair . . . tik, tok, tik, tok . . . And he sighed, with sadness and horror, "Ah, my friend," he thought, "are you as frightened as I am?"
"I have seen a thing like that," he said. "The trader at the great fresh-water lake had one. He carried it in a small bag at his waist, and used often to pull it out and look at it. He never told me what it was for, but once he let me hear it speak. It went on just like this one tik, tik, tik but it did not require shaking or squeezing.
An encampment of Indians being near, a party of them soon visited our camp and began making signs for trade. "Mika tik eh clams?" said one of the matrons of the party. "What does she say, Oliver?" "I'm blessed if I know, but it looks as if she wanted to sell some clams."
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