([Fig. 261]). It would never do to forget the clock, for poor little Thankful would not know how long her many loaves of bread were baking in the big oven, and the bread might burn. Cut [Fig. 262] of cardboard and score all dotted lines, except NN-OO, which forms the hinge of the door. Mark this with a pinhole at top and bottom, turn the cardboard over and draw a line from pinhole to pinhole; then score it on this line that the door may open properly outward. Try to draw the face of the clock correctly. Make it in pencil first so that any mistake may be erased and corrected. When you have the face drawn as it should be, go over the pencil lines with pen and ink. Begin the face with a circle ([Fig. 263]). Make it as you made the circle for the wigwam, only, of course, very much smaller. Above the circle, at the distance of half the diameter of the circle, draw a curve with your home-made compass ([Fig. 264]). Lengthen the compass a little and make another curve a trifle above the first ([Fig. 265]). Connect the lower curve with the circle by two straight lines ([Fig. 266]), draw a small circle above the large one ([Fig. 267]), connect the two circles by two scallops ([Fig. 268]), and bring the upper curve down into a square ([Fig. 269]). The small top circle stands for the moon; draw a simple face on it like [Fig. 270], then make the numbers on the large circle ([Fig. 271]) and also the hands ([Fig. 272]). Both numbers and hands must be on the same circle on the clock. They are on two different circles in the diagrams that you may see exactly how to draw them.
| Fig. [264].—Then a curve above the circle. | Fig. [265].—Another curve above the first one. | Fig. [266].—Connect the lower curve with the circle by two lines. |
Leave [Fig. 269] white, but paint the other portions of the clock a light reddish brown with black lines above and below the door, and a black band almost entirely across the bottom edge of the front of the clock that the clock may appear to be standing on feet. Gild the three points on the top to make them look as if made of brass.
| Fig. [267].—Draw a small circle above the large one. | Fig. [268].—Connect the two circles by two scallops. | Fig. [269].—Extend line of upper circle down to form a square. |
Be sure that the four holes in the top ([Fig. 262]) are fully large enough to allow a coarse darning-needle to be passed readily through them; then bend the clock into shape, fitting the extension PP over the extension QQ; the two holes in PP must lie exactly over those in QQ. Glue the clock together, using the blunt end of a lead-pencil, or any kind of a stick, to assist in holding the sides and tops together until the glue is perfectly dry.
| Fig. [270].—Make this face in the small circle. | Fig. [271].—Put the numbers on the clock face in this way. | Fig. [272].—Make the hands of the clock like these. |
Fig. [273].—Weights for winding the clock.
Fig. [275].—The churn.