Show S J J rJ a Y ry- ry T i iA A DIAL FROM HIS POKE I Curious Timepiece That Was Used by Our Ancestors A writer in English Country Life describes describes de- de scribes a curious timepiece which a a. a friend h of his picked out of a deal of of old iron It is a brass circle of about I two two inches diameter On the outer I Iside side are engraved letters indicating Jays days and the months with graduated divisions and on the inner sido side the hours of the day The brass circle itself itself it it- self is to be held in one position by a ring but there is isan an inn Inner r slide in which there is a small orifice this slide being moved so that the hole stands stands opposite the division of the the sunbeam shining through the little l v 1 z 3 L I f err l ll 9 month where falls the day ay of f which we desire to know the time the circle is b held ld up opposite the sun the inner c circle is of course then in shade but orifice forms a point of light upon the hour marked marled upon the inner side The little dial gives th the hour with great exactness It seems probable that this tili was the kind of dial alluded to in Shakespeare's As You LUte Like Like It And then he drew he-drew drew a dial from his from Ills poke poe And looking on it with lack lustie eye Says very eh Its Ifs 10 o'clock tey Thus may we see he he how the world wags but an hour ago since It was nine And after an hour more twill be eleven And so from hour to hour we ripe and ana ripe Mp And then from hour to hour we rot and ana rot And Ami thereby hangs a tale When I did hear The motley fool tool thus moral on the time My lungs began to crow like chanticleer That fools should be so deep contemplative tive And I did laugh sans Intermission An An hour by his dial |