Pie CLOCK

CAN you tell what time it is by the Clock? No. Then I will teach you.

You see that there are Twelve Figures on the Face, and Two hands that
move round and point to them.

The long hand tells the Minutes and the short aa tells the hours.

When the long hand and the short hand are both at XII (twelve), it is
Twelve o'clock ; and when the long hand gets round to XII again, the short
hand will be at I (one), and it will be One o'clock.

So that while the short hand is moving from XII to I, the long hand has
gone right round the face.

Let us start at Twelve o'clock. Both hands, you see, are now
together on the figure XII.

When the long hand is at I, (one) the short hand has moved a
very little way, and it is Five minutes past Twelve.

When the long hand is at II (two), the short hand has moved
a little further on, and it is Ten minutes past Twelve.

When the long hand is at III (three), the short hand has
moved one quarter the space between XII and JI, and it is a
Quarter past Twelve.

When the long hand is at IV (four), the short hand has moved
a little further on still, and it is Twenty minutes past Twelve.

When the long hand is at V (five) it is Twenty-five minutes
past Twelve.