complaint, always ticking cheerfully. And the only thanks they ever receive is to be scolded at when they fail to any small degree." Mr. Rhinehart paused, then added drily, "Did any of us human machines do our work as well, we should have earned the right to belabor them. As it is I consider we stand on rather delicate ground when we berate either a clock or a watch--especially an old one." "Mr. McPhearson is fixing now a bracket clock made about 1720." "He is? That means it has ticked and ticked over two hundred ye