The breakfast over, Tom and Will

Sent for the landlord and the bill;

Will looked it over:—"Very right—

But hold! what wonder meets my sight?

Tom! the surprise is quite a shock!"

"What wonder? where?" "The clock, the clock!"

Tom and the landlord in amaze

Stared at the clock with stupid gaze,

And for a moment neither spoke;

At last the landlord silence broke,—