Now just listen at that.

She'll strike a hundred and fifty, now, without stopping,--you'll see.

There ain't another clock like that in Christendom." Washington hoped that this might be true, for the din was distracting -- though the family, one and all, seemed filled with joy; and the more the clock "buckled down to her work" as the Colonel expressed it, and the more insupportable the clatter became, the more enchanted they all appeared to be.

When there was silence, Mrs Sellers lifted upon Washington a face that beamed with a childlike pride, and said: "It belonged to his grandmother." The look and the tone were a plain call for admiring surprise, and therefore Washington said (it was the only thing that offered itself at the moment:) "Indeed!" "Yes, it did, didn't it father!" exclaimed one of the twins.

"She was my great-grandmother--and George's too; wasn't she, father! You never saw her, but Sis has seen her, when Sis was a baby-didn't you, Sis! Sis has seen her most a hundred times.