Show S fi WS B lime m On OnD D a they were waiting to hear the chimes ring out for midnight on New Years Year's a.- a. Eve Dan said Have nave y ever thought much about Time Dora You ask strange questions questions ques ques- young man she laughed I dont don't know what you you mean Dan grinned back at her ber When you get going on it Its It's rather awful And when I say awful I mean just that Until the Idea of the theOld theOld theOld Old and the New 1 1 y Year ear formulated In mens men's minds It was Just Time everywhere every every- where where infinite Infinite tin on- bounded uncounted uncounted I ed etl going on and on Then I suppose somebody noticed In certain parts of the w world o 0 r rId 1 d that birds came back In to toone one season and went back another That now It was cold for a while and now It was hot bot That the tI tides tide des s sc c came came- a m and e and went with regularity and so so- so they sort of scratched their heads and sal said Look ook here there are four seasons seasons sea sea- sons i spring l s summer summer autumn winter whiter And there are are suns and moons to measure them by day and night I II dont don't think Time Itself really cares whether It Is ls divided Into twenty four I hours a day seven days a week and twelve months a or not just a a I I 1 convenience for human beings The animals dont don't care the birds know 1 when to leave lea and when to return without any calendars whatever i I funny Isn't It You get lost In the I Idea not technically but just broodIng brood brood- Ing over It What has happened Enmen's In En mens men's minds divides Time for us 1 Time Itself Is un un- changed Its It's a aw awful W f u I 1 isn't It IU Scares one a little The clock be began an booming off ocr twelve strokes Midnight and Happy New Yearl smiled Dora Youre probably probably probably ably debt but Im I'm glad somebody 0 me bo d y thought It up the up the beginning Rt f a s New year and all the fun of It IL If It it Et were all 11 II just Time where would the e Goose he laughed Come on on J 1 I IIII III r lets let's go and crash one this minute I l IO lC c. c 1911 W t rn N. p r |