'Every child knows how to tell the time by a dandelion clock. You blow till the seed is all blown away, and you count each of the puffs—an hour to a puff.
Every child knows this, and very few children want to know any more on the subject.'
From the short story 'Dandelion Clocks' taken from the compilation called ‘Mary’s Meadow’ & Other Tales of Fields & Flowers by Juliana Horatia Ewing (1841-1885)
