On wednesday evening we went to the town hall It was the last day of the year and large crowd of people had gathered under the town hall clock It would strike twelve in twenty minutes time Fifteen minutes passed and then at five to twelve the clock stopped The big minute hand did not move We waited and waited but nothing happened Suddenly someone shouted It's two minutes past twelve the clock has stopped I looked at my watch It was true the big clock refused to welcome the year at the moment everybody began to laugh and sing.