“O my grandfather’s clock was too high for the shelf, So it stood ninety years on the floor. It was taller by half than the old man himself, Though it weighed not a pennyweight more. It was bought on the morn of the day he was born, And was always his treasure and pride, But it--stopped--short--never to go again---- When--the old--man--died.” “Alibi (al’-i-bi) n. 1. In law, a plea of having been elsewhere at the time an offense is alleged to have been committed. Hence.--a. The fact or state of having been elsewhere at the time specified; as, “he attempted to prove an alibi.”--Cent. Dict.…
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