Nowadays, many people don’t wear wrist watches, but depend on their phones to tell time. I think these “conversations” are supposed to be for a specific time frame, so it looks like she was checking “start” time and “finish” time. The time in between, she and Ox just sat together peacefully.
A grandfather clock was also known as a “long case clock” or “tall case clock.” There were also smaller case clocks known as “grandmother clocks”.
My grandfather’s clock was too large for the shelf,So it stood ninety years on the floor;It was taller by half than the old man himself,Though it weighed not a pennyweight more.It was bought on the morn of the day that he was born,And was always his treasure and pride;But it stopp’d short — never to go again —When the old man died.
CHORUS:Ninety years without slumbering(tick, tick, tick, tick),His life seconds numbering,(tick, tick, tick, tick),It stopp’d short — never to go again —When the old man died.
Nowadays, many people don’t wear wrist watches, but depend on their phones to tell time. I think these “conversations” are supposed to be for a specific time frame, so it looks like she was checking “start” time and “finish” time. The time in between, she and Ox just sat together peacefully.