Tik-Tok

Description:

From Ozma of Oz (1907):

Standing within the narrow chamber of rock, was the form of a man – or, at least, it seemed like a man, in the dim light. He was only about as tall as Dorothy herself, and his body was round as a ball and made out of burnished copper. Also his head and limbs were copper, and these were jointed or hinged to his body in a peculiar way, with metal caps over the joints, like the armor worn by knights in days of old. He stood perfectly still, and where the light struck upon his form it glittered as if made of pure gold.

Dorothy stepped inside the little room to get a back view of the copper man, and in this way discovered a printed card that hung between his shoulders, it being suspended from a small copper peg at the back of his neck. She unfastened this card and returned to the path, where the light was better, and sat herself down upon a slab of rock to read the printing.

 

SMITH & TINKER’S

Patent Double-Action, Extra-Responsive,

Thought-Creating, Perfect-Talking

MECHANICAL MAN

Fitted with our Special Clock-Work Attachment.

Thinks, Speaks, Acts, and Does Everything but Live.

Manufactured only at our Works at Evna, Land of Ev.

All infringements will be promptly Prosecuted according to Law.

DIRECTIONS FOR USING:

For THINKING:–Wind the Clock-work Man under his left arm, (marked No. 1.)

For SPEAKING:–Wind the Clock-work Man under his right arm, (marked No 2.)

For WALKING and ACTION:–Wind Clock-work in the middle of his back, (marked No. 3.)

This Mechanism is guaranteed to work perfectly for a thousand years. 

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