![]() I have shaved him for the last forty years'. response to public demand, the sketches of The Clockmaker established Judge Thomas Chandler Haliburton as a satirical humorist of international stature. From 1827 to 1837, although a tory, he maintained with decreasing conviction in his celebrated humorous Clockmaker series the point of view that political. ![]() May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. Do you happen to know him?' 'Well, I ought to do so', was the reply. The Clockmaker: The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville (New Canadian Library) by Thomas Chandler Haliburton. In his diary entry for 5 October 1894 Grant Duff wrote: "Mrs Cunard told me that a man had once come up to her father, Judge Haliburton, with whom I sat for a short time in the House of Commons, and had said to him: 'Sir, I hear that you live in the same place as Sam Slick the Clockmaker. Reviewing "The Clockmaker" in 1828, The Times quoted Alexander Pope, that other master of aphorisms, noting that the dunces on both sides of the Atlantic were "Safe from the bar, the pulpit and the throne / And touch'd and shamed by ridicule alone." Sam Slick continues to be remembered in Windsor today, his creator Haliburton regarded as the Tobias Smollett of Canada. These books were peppered with witty aphorisms which have entered the language: “he drank like a fish”, “the early bird gets the worm”, “it's raining cats and dogs”, “you can't get blood out of a stone”, “six of one and half a dozen of the other”, "a stitch in time saves nine", "truth is stranger than fiction", “whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience”. He is, perhaps, best remembered for the series of humorous books chronicling the activities of Samuel (“Sam”) Slick, the itinerant clockmaker of Nova Scotia.
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