A história é O Diabo no Campanário .
Above the session-room of the Council is the steeple, and in the steeple is the belfry, where exists, and has existed time out of mind, the pride and wonder of the village --- the great clock of the borough of Vondervotteimittiss. And this is the object to which the eyes of the old gentlemen are turned who sit in the leather-bottomed arm-chairs.
The great clock has seven faces --- one in each of the seven sides of the steeple --- so that it can be readily seen from all quarters. Its faces are large and white, and its hands heavy and black.