128 Language Through Nature 



Lesson 8 1 

 TELLING TIME 



KATE sat in her father's great armchair. She 

 was all alone and the house seemed very still. 

 ' ' Tick-tock, tick-tock, " said the clock. 

 Its voice seemed very loud in the quiet 

 house. 



Kate looked at the clock and 

 listened to its steady ticking for 

 awhile ; then she said aloud : "We 

 could not do without a clock. It 

 tells us when it is time to get up; 

 it tells us when it is time to go to 

 school; it tells us when to eat dinner. 

 What would people do without clocks?" 

 "Tick-tock, tick-tock," answered the 

 clock. ' ' Long ago people had no clocks, 

 my dear little Kate." 



"Why," said Kate, "how did they tell 

 time then?" 



"Oh," said the clock, "they had many 

 ^ick- A j ways of doing that. First of all, they told 

 %,' m time by the sun. Then they measured 



said 



c/^"I i time by shadows." 



' 



