MINUTE HAND [Thinking harder: Fr-r-r. Let me think. HOUR HAND: Take your time, dear, you can do it. MINUTE HAND [Shoutingl: Thirty-one million four hundred and forty-nine thousands hundred! Hall ticks and half ticks. There is silence. Everyone waits for the Pendulum to say whether the answer is correct or not. And then PENDULUM: Very good, smart fellow! Now, you all see why I'm tired of ticktocking. It's too much to ask of anyone. So please count me out. FACE: Mr. Pendulum. would you mind wagging six times, only six times to please a lady? PENDULUM: With pleasure! Here... tick-tock tick-toek. FACE: Thank you. I hope it did not tire you. PENDULUM: Of course not. Sixty times would not fire me, nor six hundred, nor six thousand. but when it comes to thirty-one million... ugh! That's too much to ask of anyone FACE: It tires you to think about all those wags, but it does not tire you to wag one wag at a time. Isn't that true? PENDULUM: Yes, but thirty-one million! FACE: You say it in a minute, but you have to do it a whole long year---winter summer spring. and fall. Think about it. Nobody hurries you HOUR HAND: Look at it this way. Spring cannot come until you have comfortably tick-tocked so many million more times. MINUTE HAND: And the leaves cannot turn red in autumn, and Jack Frost cannot appeur before you give the signal FACE: You see. Time is in your hands and so much depends on you. Would you rather let people down? PENDULUM (Overjoyed): That's so! I'm an important person! Jumping) Ye-hey! You're right! I don't have to rush. There's always a year's tick-tocking. So, all get back to work. ALL: Yeah, back to work! With this, the Wheels begin to turn the lands hegin to move. I ady Face smiles brightly and the Pendulum proudly sways back and forth---tick-tock, tick-tock. tick-och--us if nothing Happened. ito po sunod ​