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missing, which was afterward found. Its inscription, 

 " Time waits for No Man," is an old punning de- 

 vice on the word gnomon. 



At one time dialling was taught by many a 

 country schoolmaster, and excellent and accurate 

 sun-dials were made and set up by country 

 workmen, usually masons of slight education. 

 In Scotland the making of sun-dials has never died 

 out. In America many pewter sun-dials were cast 

 in moulds of steatite or other material. A few dial- 

 makers still remain ; one in lower New York makes 

 very interesting-looking sun-dials of brass, which, 

 properly discolored and stained, find a ready sale 

 in uptown shops. I doubt if these are ever made 

 for any special geographical point, but there is in 

 a small Pennsylvania town an old Quaker who 

 makes carefully calculated and accurate sun-dials, 

 computed by logarithms for special places. I should 

 like to see him " sit like a shepherd carving out 

 dials, quaintly point by point." I have a very pretty 

 circular brass dial of his making, about eight inches 

 in diameter. He writes me that " the dial sent thee 

 is a good students' dial, fit to set outside the window 

 for a young man to use and study by in college," 

 which would indicate to me that my Quaker dialler 

 knows another type of collegian from those of my 

 acquaintance, who would find the time set by a sun- 

 dial rather slow. 



There have been those who truly loved sun- 

 dials. Sir William Temple ordered that after his 

 death his heart should be buried under the sun- 

 dial in his garden where his heart had been in 



