Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1890 — Only Once an Hour. [ARTICLE]

Only Once an Hour.

A man who had a clock in his lap had a seat on a car coming down from the Grand Central Depot the other day, and a passenger next to him naturally inquired: “Been buying a timepiece, eh?” “It’s one I bought about a week ago, and I’m taking it back.” “Out of time?” “Oh, uo, it runs all right; but the fellow swindled me on it. I expect to have a row with him.” “What’s wrong with it?” “Why. he warranted it to bo a cuckoo clock, and he lied about it,” “It look 9 to me to be a cuckoo cloek.” “Well, it isn’t. When it strikes the hour a door opens, a bird comes Out and yells ‘Hoo-hoo! hoo-hoo!’ and that’*. there.is to it for the next sixty uiiuules. I’ll make that jeweler tired before I get through with him.”