Clocks

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Clocks is by Jerome K. Jerome. The text says there are two kinds of clocks: one that is always wrong, and knows it is wrong, and glories in it, and one that is always right, except when you rely upon it, and then it is more wrong than you would think a clock could be in a civilized country. The writer remembers a clock that the family had in the house when he was a boy, routing them all up at three o'clock one winter's morning.

The great dream of one of these clocks is to lure you on into trying to catch a train by it. The writer says he has never been quite able to decide which is the more irritating: to run two miles at the top of your speed and find, on reaching the station, that you are three-quarters of an hour too early, or to stroll along leisurely the whole way. A clock called an odd old fellow sometimes strikes three or four times within the same hour, and at other times will go for half-a-day without striking at all.

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Jerome K. Jerome

Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humorist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889). Other works include the essay collections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) and Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; Three Men on the Bummel, a sequel to Three Men in a Boat; and several other novels.