Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-10-13 | Page 6 | All Around Two Clocks

I ALL AROUND TWO CLOCKS Brown had come home very ver late one night after a co convivial evening at a smoker and had consumed more cigars and refreshments than were good for him It I was midnight when Brown reached home but he lie did not know it itAh It Ah Alt he muttered If the tho church clock would only strike I should know the time Its It's Is I's too dark to see But Tint hark Just as he spoke the clock cock began to strike strike Breathlessly Brown counted One t two o three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven elever twelve But at that moment another clock began Thirteen counted Brown fourteen fourteen four tour teen teen fifteen Great Scot sixteen seventeen eighteen Gracious nineteen nineteen nineteen nine nine- teen twenty twenty one ole twenty twenty twenty- two twenty three 1 Mercy on or us twenty-four twenty 1 4 Mopping his steaming brow he eXclaimed ex exclaimed cx- cx claimed My word Ive I've Ive never been out so late in my life