"We should learn something then.
What's the idea of it all--the rolling eyes, the moon, the stars, and a verse as lugubrious as a Presbyterian sermon on infant damnation.

The whole thing is uncanny." "It's a common enough device in old clocks," said the lawyer, joining him.
"It is commoner, however, in long-cased clocks--the so-called grandfather clock.

I have seen all sorts of moving figures and mechanisms in long-cased clocks in old English country houses.

A heaving ship was a very familiar device, the movement being caused, as in this clock, by a wire from the pendulum.

I have never seen a specimen with the rotating moon-dial before, though they were common enough in some parts of England at one time.