Show fa tal bonner A CLOCKS FIGURES of 0 course situated as I 1 am in this fine ene position in the baa hall said odd the hall clock 1 I hear bear a great deal that Is going on OIL I 1 see the people coming coining in you tou see them going out 1 said the living room clock bright clock bright clock said the hall clock well shall I 1 continue my story storelv lv by all means I 1 wont interrupt again said the living room clock not far oil oft 1 I hear bear the people talk grownups grown ups and children how some of them can talk I 1 my I 1 but they talk and they talk and they talk well let them said the living room clock dont we tick and tock tick and tock tick and tock all the time it a wise speech said the hall clock land and ill foreve forgive you this time for interrupting 1 I think about IV it said the living room clock 1 I forgot I 1 was interrupting again 1 1 I I cannoot cannot say that I 1 object to the people talking so much contin continued aed the hall clock of course if I 1 did object to it I 1 dont suppose 1 I could do anything about it 1 I might stop and get run down but that do any good ita its always so 0 foolish to run down and get out of order it takes such a long time to get fixed again 0 one e would think said the living room clock that you were a doctor 3 id like to be B thinner or it a trained nurse or something like that instead of being a hall ball clock why I 1 asked the hall clock well all that chatter about getting run down and out of order said the living room clock sounded to me like a doctor or a trained nurse or a person giving advice all because you hear bear th the e people talking about their sicknesses in the living room said the hall ball clock 1 I spoke in the correct way for a clock to speak but I 1 must tell you what strikes me as being funny oh yes said the living room clock you must tell me we dont want to end oft off talking about something different from that with which we so started well it have mattered so much it if we had finished it right away and then gone on to talk of something else we have finished the first thing we were talking about said the hall clock it strikes me as being very funny when I 1 hear bear the people u talk ak about their figures it seems that each person has only one figure and a figure means a persons shape A little girl will come in and say oh dear I 1 wish I 1 so fat fal id like to be thinner and a grownup grown up lady will say 1 I wish I 1 could put on more weight MY ily figure Is not what it should bel be 1 or some one will tell a child to stand up straight and not have a crooked fl figure ure it strikes me as being very funny said the hall ball clock because each person has only one figure whereas we have figures all over our faces 1 I have figures in twelve places and they are all right and just as they should be yes tes it does seem funny to har bear people talk about their one figure when I a clock lias has so many figures and never has to worry about any of them at all it makes me feel very proud la in deed 1 ill |