[Dandelion Clocks - story by J. H. Ewing]
"Uncle Jacob, why do dandelion clocks tell different time to different people ? Sixty seconds make a minute, sixty minutes make an hour, twenty-four hours make a day, three hundred and sixty-five days make a year. That’s right, isn’t it ? Hours are the same length for everybody, aren’t they ? But if I got to tea-time when’ it was only two o’clock with Anna, and went on like that, first the days and then the years would go much quicker with me, and I don’t know if I should die sooner, — but it couldn’t be, could it ?"

"Certainly not," said Uncle Jacob; and he went on with his list. "Yellow Pottebakker, Yellow Tournesol and Yellow Rose."

"Then the fairy clocks tells lies ? "said Peter Paul.

"That you must ask Godfather Time," replied Uncle Jacob, jocosely. "He is responsible for the clocks and the hour-glasses."

"Where does he live ?" asked the boy.
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