This etext was produced by Gardner Buchanan with help from

Charles Franks and Distributed Proofers.

The Clockmaker; or
The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville,

by Thomas Chandler Haliburton.

Garrit aniles
ex re fabellas
—Horace.

The cheerful sage, when solemn dictates fail,
Conceals the moral counsel in a tale.

Halifax, N. S. 1836.