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Show Bible Story Tells of First Sundial in World History I been installed in Dover castle, England, Eng-land, a few years before (1348)." In olden days,-most men about town carried two watches on their fobs, to check one by the other. Yet this precaution was rather useless, use-less, Mr. Le Gallienne says, for when they didn't agree it was a question ques-tion of which to believe. For instance: in-stance: "A witty story is told of the famous fa-mous dandy, the Marechal de Richelieu, who always carried two, both so beautiful that one day a certain great lady admired them so much that she asked to hold them in her hands that she might examine them closer. Then, to her great confusion, she let them slip out of her fingers and they fell to the ground. The gallant Marechal did his best to comfort her. 'Don't distress yourself.' he said gaily, 'It is the first time I ever saw them go together.' " "The earliest mention of a sundial is, of course, in the Bible, on the occasion of the good King Heze-kiah's Heze-kiah's prayer to God, when sick and aging, that He would extend his life, apparently for the sole but excellent ex-cellent reason that he loved it," says Richard le Gallienne in "From a Paris Scrapbook." "Ke dreaded 'to behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world, for,' he cried, 'O Lord, by these tilings men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit' perhaps1 the most human cry in all literature. "And God took pity on him, granting grant-ing him a reprieve of 15 years, putting put-ting back the clock of time: 'Behold 'Be-hold I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sundial of Ahaz 10 degrees backward. So the sun returned 10 dcrees, by which it was gone down.' " This gracious miracle happened about 700 B. C. King Charles V gave the first public clock to Paris in 1370, says Mr. Le Gallienne. "The clock we still see. with its beautiful dial, set in the Tour de Horloge of the Palais de Justice," he adds. "It was made by the famous clockmak-er clockmak-er Henry de Vick, and a similar clock (still in going order) had j |