A Tale of a Buck and a Singing Wall Clock

When my family moved in a remote barrio of Ruparan, Digos City, Davao del Sur last 1986, our first ever precious possession was a buck or a male goat. It was so dear and lovely. It was acting as if it was a dog because we did not have to pull its rope, it would just follow us wherever we may go. In fact, if it would sense that we were near already, this cute and acting-as-a-dog goat would scream to its heart content to get our attention. 

One day, there was a mobile merchant who came to our house to sell anything and that included his infamous singing wall clock. He enticed us by letting his wall clock sing at every hour. Considering that it was also our first time to see and hear such a marvelous wall clock, we were awed so much. However, the wall clock did not cost a penny. It costed a whooping P 600.00, at least that was according to the wise mobile merchant. 

Considering that we did not have the money to buy the singing wall clock, our parents could not do anything but declined.. When the mobile merchant was about to leave our house, coincidentally, my brother came and with him our goat followed. The mobile merchant's eyes were glued to our goat. He then returned to our house. He proposed to have a barter of his singing wall clock with that of our goat. At first, we said no. Our goat would cost more than his singing wall clock after all. But the merchant incessantly persuaded us and he too let his singing wall clock sing, our parents gave in then. Thus, we traded our goat to the singing wall clock. 

However after almost 2 months of singing, our wall clock did not sing anymore.