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given or sold to the parish priest. This idea 

 was not lost upon others of the enterprising 

 Schwarzwalders, and the example was soon fol- 

 lowed, and not long afterwards the farmhouses of 

 the district began to be adorned with other wooden 

 clocks. Two men were very apt at the work, 

 they may almost be called the fathers of the art ; 

 their names were Lorenz Frei, called " the Wood- 

 worker," and Solomon Henniger, of St Margen. 

 The germs now rapidly developed ; the simple 

 carving of wooden stands or frames gave place to 

 the more elaborate work of ornamental clockmak- 

 ing ; the wood, the want of other occupations, the 

 uncommon industry, acuteness, and union of the 

 people, the freedom from political and other dis- 

 turbing causes, all promoted this quick growth. 

 Hawkers sold the clocks throughout Germany, 

 and the Schwarzwald soon became celebrated 

 throughout the empire. 



The clocks were at first very simple in construc- 

 tion, with wooden wheels and carved frames. It 

 was not until between the years 1730 and 1740 

 that the first cuckoo-clock which is one of the 

 class called Spieluhren, or clocks of amusement 

 was introduced by Franz Ketterer of Schonwald, 

 a small hamlet on the hill above Tryberg, who is 

 the real originator of the description of clock for 

 which the Black Forest is most noted. This was 

 novel enough for a time ; but more minds set to 

 work, and forty years later Anthony Duifner de- 

 vised the first flute-clock. Soon a real, note- 

 worthy advance took place, by the introduction of 

 the first pendulum clock. Then the fancy of one 

 Kirner, a Schwarzwalder, who had become Court 



