M&D 157

[Brian D. McCary]

>"You may recall the Henry C. Work song: "Grandfather's Clock", in which a
>great deal of personality is ascribed to the clock."

>I'll let you know if I find out more.

>davemarc

Somebody actually *wrote* that song?  Funny, I grew up hearing kids in the
neighborhood sing it, but I never thought about the composer.  Did Henry
C Work also do "Fathers Whiskers? (They're always in the way/The cows
eat them for hay/usw)

Appropos of nothing except, perhaps, time, I ran across a comment in a 
book on sundials that the fixed hour is a relatively modern innovation.
As I recall, early Romans subdivided the daylight period into twelve
hours, so that an hour in summer was longer than an hour in winter.  This
had to do, as I recall, with the prevalence of sundials as the primary
time marker.