Tick Tock Goes the clock lettering
Lettering · Black and grey · Flash
The image shows two lines of black lettering in a hand-drawn, angular script that reads Tick Tock on the first line and Goes the clock on the second. The letters have uneven strokes and sharp, tapered terminals, and the text is set left-aligned with generous white space around it. The design is flat black on white with no shading or colour.
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Our last season ran on the clock in the ticket hut, a tin alarm with a cracked bell that nobody had wound since Father sold the elephants. It sat on the shelf above the till with its hands at twenty to nine, and we took the money by lamplight, the way people do in a dream they don't mean to wake from.
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Tick Tock, the children sang at the gate, pointing with sticky fingers at the old tin face, Goes the clock, and the ponies, who had heard it every evening for forty years, stamped in time to the words. Old Sid still played the cornet for the walk-around. Mags still did the high wire without a net, because a net cost four pounds a week and we no longer had four pounds.
In October the council man came with his clipboard and a face like wet cardboard. He said the field would be ploughed by spring. I told him the show ran until Saturday, and he said, not really, love, and I didn't argue, because he was right.
On the last night I climbed into the hut and wound the clock as far as the key would turn, though it had no business running. It ticked through the whole of the final act, about as long as a child can hold her breath, and then it stopped. I left the till open and the chalk board reading Tomorrow, rain or shine, and I went out to watch the lights go down one by one.
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