And I told Josiah how beautiful and symbolical it wuz to think old Time had laid down his scythe for a spell, and wuz measurin' off the hours here in this Fairy Land with beautiful posies.
And Josiah said, "The hours ort to be marked here with canes and crutches," he said his legs ached like the toothache.
The distances are awful and I couldn't deny it, and you do git tuckered out, but then, as I told Josiah, jest think what you're tuckered for.
And he said, "When you're as dead as a door-nail he didn't know what good some steeples and flags wuz goin' to do you, or floral clocks." I mistrusted he'd walked too fur lately, and had strained the cords of his legs, and his patience too much, though the last-named wuz easy hurt and always wuz.
But Josiah took out his watch and looked at it and said he'd promised to meet a man on important bizness, and he'd meet us at a certain spot in Agricultural Hall in jest one hour.
I asked him what bizness it wuz, and he hesitated a little and said as he hurried away that it wuz "Bizness connected with the meetin' house," and I asked him "What meetin' house ?" and he didn't answer me, he wuz walkin' off so fast--_mebby_ he didn't hear me.
Well, Blandina and I stayed lookin' at this wonderful clock for some time, and she said that the man that invented this clock wuz a powerful genius and how she did wish she could meet him.

She said such a man needed a kind and lovin' companion to take every care offen him and pet him and make of him.
The machinery of this clock, what makes it go, is up above a little ways on the hill in a small pavilion.

There are glass doors, and you can look in and see the works of the clock.

A great bell there strikes off the hours and quarter hours, and there is a big hour-glass there too.

One thousand electric lights light it up at night so folks can see day or night jest how time is passin' away.
Agricultural Building is the largest on the ground.