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Show Dratti i'errlold by a CI rk. 'We have not eaelly a ln-Iui-in cur family, alio k-retelts bj li-r wailing an apj mncliiiig de-iili," stal a lady to a w riter in the tu4e- ; Htm.-A3ntt rei-eiilly, l-ut we have . h.i: mjsiirious wanting of sei-li i given us time and tiiueagah- by at. : obi ckiek wiiico lias Iftis-ii in nur j family for the pa-t I'M years. Tin- I works wire ruiin '. lv a shot lirtil bv a Hnlislt soldier during the revolutionary revo-lutionary war at my great grand-father, grand-father, which shot, pat-log entllelv thruiiRh his l--.lv, killed him instantly, in-stantly, and tin it Imil'' the gl-- door, ieiietratiiig the works aud topping t'le-ui forever; fur tliough innuiuerabEo attem;ts have been m-tde t repair them, it -ss.-n-.esi thai s-nne unknown ---erkept tlH-cloik -ill lit excit w he-it eleatli llappt-l bis bin k u lugs over tile housrlitdd; so it was lm.ied to the garret. The llrst in-Unee of its warning wal,eiih-v grandfather died. He-had He-had tseii very lll.lru; the physie-iaos liad at last prolMMineeil him out ol uangi r. anil lite family were just congntulatiug tin it-selves on this newavtheu the loud touts of a clock striking 1-, slowly and solemnly, like the tolling oi a he II, was heard. 'Why, w liat is lhat?'aid my grand-mother. grand-mother. There was Inn one other clotk in the house, which was in full view, so it was evident that it was not tnnt out . 'it is my father's kiksaiil lor husbaim. 'It has struck the close ol my day;' aisi before be-fore they could reach him In; was dead, just us tho I ivt stroke died away. -Ilii.s occurrence was repeated when my grandmother herself lay-dying. lay-dying. Pie t Id 1-KK.k strllek ISjuM as she. drew her la-t Im-ith, ami :ny father, at last, tie-lie vmg that there w-:tt MHuethiin;. supernatural in the-afl'air. the-afl'air. had the old works removed, k-avingujily the liollow case; but a few J ear- after, when my brother was brought honi-j dangerously wismdisl after the lilttleof I hall-cdorsville. hall-cdorsville. tuo long, slow , solemn tones of the old ' ck w eiu hetird as Is-fon-, and poor I. -m-'s life v.-ent out 39 they elted mi the air. They rtnick for my fattier ami for in little child, who died last jr. The cWK warned im, tuo, wheu my sl-ti ruleil In Jaiu. I hadjustgot a letter from Iter, in whhh he had spoken of fuiluu-vi fuiluu-vi ty well, whin I heard the old click, whii ii wag in a remote re-mote -ti re room, strike so tapklly that the notes almost mingled, aim then began slow ly to strike another tw elve strokes. '.My si-ter is Ue.nl,' I said to my hu-lumi, 'and has died very suddenly, but who the ther strokes are for I cannot imagine-. My husband tried to reastu and tin n to riilie-ule the idea, but I mounted for my sister as runiestly a though I hail seeji her die, anil u hen. as I knew i should, I heard the news of her sudden death, I foui d It had Liken place on the same day and at the s-ime hour as. that on whieh the clock struck, allowing fur the diQinuce of time-between Japan Ja-pan and iSuston. lier bitby, a few hours okl, died a fev minutes after tlie mother." |
