"Clocks" is an essay by Jerome Klapka Jerome, an outstanding British writer and humourist (1859 – 1927). The author, with a humorous undertone, writes about precision of clocks, which gain or lose. Then he falls for trick of buying a long-case clock, which does nothing but laughs at time. Jerome Klapka Jerome is an acknowledged artist in words, a keen observer of life, who describes even seamy sid...