"Dear me; how funny! Listen to this." Then she read the following words, engraved upon the copper plates of the man's body: SMITH & TINKER'S Patent Double-Action, Extra-Responsive, Thought-Creating, Perfect-Talking MECHANICAL MAN Fitted with our Special Clockwork Attachment.
Thinks, Speaks, Acts, and Does Everything but Live.
"Isn't he wonderful!" exclaimed the Princess.
"Yes; but here's more," said Betsy, reading from another engraved plate: DIRECTIONS FOR USING: For THINKING:--Wind the Clockwork Man under his left arm, (marked No.

1).
For SPEAKING:--Wind the Clockwork Man under his right arm, (marked No.

2).
For WALKING and ACTION:--Wind Clockwork Man in the middle of his back, (marked No.

3).
N.B .-- This Mechanism is guaranteed to work perfectly for a thousand years.
"If he's guaranteed for a thousand years," said Polychrome, "he ought to work yet." "Of course," replied Shaggy.

"Let's wind him up." In order to do this they were obliged to set the copper man upon his feet, in an upright position, and this was no easy task.