That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 22, 2019

Little Jessica was horrified to see her grandfather inside the grandfather clock.

“It’s now up to you to keep this clock going. If you allow it to stop, your grandfather will die.”

The grandfather clock in our house is the one on the vcr, and it’s flashing 12:00…

“Go down and fetch a bucket of coal for Mommy – don’t worry, there’s nothing in the cellar.”

Remember when we read Mr. Poe’s story, The Pit and the Pendulum? Well, that’s a pendulum, and below it is a pit.I used to put my bad dolls in here to be sliced up by the pendulum. Then I started using mice…

“That’s Mabel. She was your older sister. She didn’t seem to care when Mommie complained about migraines either.”

“For what you’ve just done, you can spend twelve hours in the naughty place.”

“Mommy? Why when I say “hickory dickery dock” do the mice run up the clock?”

“You will stand there until I decide when you’ve learnt your lesson about what’s funny and what isn’t funny when you thought it was funny to tell daddy about all of his friends that come to visit mummy while he’s at work!”

“Watch the pendulum dear. You are getting sleepy, you only hear the sound of my voice”

Now remember, to get to the Bat-cave, you reach into the clock and throw that switch.

Back when unique tones were awesome and acceptable.

“Just keep standing still for a few more minutes, dear. He’s going to gather up his brushes and easel stuff and leave any time now. This is the last time we let him do this ‘artist’ bit.”

“I know it’s a bit of a shock/ to see Grandfather stuffed in the clock/ but poor Gramps was “unhealthy”/ and now WE are wealthy – / I inherited all of his stock."

And the skirt on mommie’s dress is also a floor sweeper!

The pointy things slowly go round and round and point at those XVIs. I don’t know what it means either.

You’ll stand here until you tell mommy where you put her high heel lace up boots!

The mouse ran up the clock;

The clock struck one,

And down he run,

Hickory, dickory, dock.

*"Winding Up Grandfather

and finding out what makes him tick"*

Grandfather’s Clock: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DeScott_Evans_Grandfathers_Clock.jpg 

has info and links that point to info about this 1881 painting.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/evans_de_scott.html 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=567 

https://de.artprice.com/artist/57987/david-scott-evans/biography 

https://www.cowanauctions.com/lot/the-reading-by-de-scott-evans-138903 

http://www.askart.com/artist/De_Scott_David_Evans/22044/De_Scott_David_Evans.aspx 

https://books.google.com/books?id=ZdICm_W8xKwC&pg=PA272#v=onepage&q&f=false 

all have info about this artist (again, the askart.com full bio is free on Fridays; also, if the last won’t let you read beyond that page – his bio starts there, just change 272 to 273 …), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. This is the first work by him used here.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2248 (July 21, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

P.S. Due to conflicts tomorrow morning, expect my comment to be even later than usual.

“Are you sure you want to go to Fillory? It’s not always a nice place.”

Needs new batteries for her flashlight, too!

‘No dear, it’s my clock. But it’s called a ‘grandfather’ style.

in such a drab house the only thing Isabell could do is watch her mother dress her father through the hole in the wall

Does it get You Tube?

Originally called a coffin clock, until the song.