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WHAT O'clock IS IT?-When | was
a young lad, my father one day called
me to him that he might teach me how to
know what o'clock it was. He told me
the use of the minute finger, and the hour
hand, and described to me the figures on
the dial plate, until | was pretty perfect in
my part.


No sooner was quite master Of this
additional knowledge, than set off scam
pering to join my companions at a game
of marbles; but my father called me back
again: stop, Humphrey" said he, al
have something more to tell you"


Back again | went, wondering what else
had got to learn for thought | knew
all about the clock, quite as well as my
father did.


Humphrey" said he, " have taught
you to know the time Of the day, must
now teach you how to find out the time
of your life.


All this was strange to me, so | waited
rather impatienty to hear how my father
would explain it, for ! wanted sadly to go
to my marbles,


"The Bible," says he, "describes the
wears of man to be three-score and ten, or
four score years Now, life is very uncer
tain, and you may not live single day
longer; but if we divide the four.score
wears Of mans life into twelve parts, like
the dial of clock, it will allow almost
seven years for every figure. When a boy
is seven years old, then it is one o'clock Of
his life, and this is the case with you.
When you arrive at fourteen years, it will
be two O'Clock with you; and when at
twenty-one years it will be three o'clock,
should it please God thus to spare your
life. In this manner you may thus know
the time of your life, and looking at the
clock may perhaps remind you of it. My
great grandfather, according to his cacu-
tion, died at IL o'clock; my grandfather
at eleven, and my father at ten, AT what