Hugo Kauffmann, German
When Daisy’s Clock Stopped Working For the Third Time in a Week, She Began To Regret Buying Its Minute Hand at a Second Hand Store, 1893
Oil on wood
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Bravo, Steve Melcher! I can’t come up with anything nearly as good as your superb caption today, but I’ll post my limericks here anyway because (for reasons unclear to me) they have been deleted from the GoComics “That Is Priceless” Comments section:
/// It’s the time to be setting clocks back,
so it’s also the time to keep track
of their home’s smoke alarm,
which will keep them from harm.
(When there’s smoke, Grandpa’s cough turns to hack.)
/// There’s a very precarious climb
just to see the clock and set the chime.
“Tell me why,” she’d beseech,
“Hang it out of my reach?”
Grandpa’s answer to her: “It’s high time.”
/// The real reason that Grandpa preferred
the clock up near the ceiling occurred
every hour. It would fall,
when hung low, off the wall.
(Pouncing cat on mechanical bird.)