Die dreibeinigen Herrscher

Apart from the one in the church tower, there were five clocks in the village that kept reasonable time, and my father owned one of them. It stood on the mantelpiece in the parlor, and every night before he went to bed he took the key from a vase, and wound it up. Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheTripods/com ... here_were/
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