Perhaps of all the works of man sun-dials and church-clocks are those which have conveyed most feeling to the human heart; the clock more than the sun-dial because it speaks to the ear as well as to the eye, and by night as well as by day. Our forefathers understood this, and therefore they not only gave a Tongue to Time, but provided that he should speak often to us and remind us that the hours are passing. Their quarter-boys and their chimes were designed for this moral purpose as much as the memento which is so commonly seen upon an old clock-face,—and so seldom upon a new one. I never hear chimes that they do not remind me of those which were formerly the first sounds I heard in the morning, which used to quicken my step on my way to school, and which announced my release from it, when the same tune methought had always a merrier import. When I remember their tones, life seems to me like a dream, and a train of recollections arises, which if it were allowed to have its course would end in tears. CHAPTER XXX. P. I. THE OLD BELLS RUNG TO A NEW TUNE. If the bell have any sides the clapper will find 'em. BEN JONSON. That same St. George's Church has a peal of eight tunable bells, in the key of E. b. the first bell weighing seven hundred, one quarter and fourteen pounds. _Tra tutte quante le musiche humane, O Signor mio gentil, tra le più care Gioje del mondo, è 'l suon delle campane; Don don don don don don, che ve ne pare?_[1] [Footnote 1: AGNOLO FIRENZUOLA.] They were not christened, because they were not Roman Catholic bells; for in Roman Catholic countries church bells are christened with the intention of causing them to be held in greater reverence,— _—però ordinò n'un consistoro Un certo di quei buon papi all' antica, Che non ci lavoravan di straforo, Che la campana si, si benedica, Poi si battezzi, e se le ponga il nome, Prima che' in campanil l' ufizio dica. Gli organi, ch' anco lor san sì ben come Si dica il vespro, e le messe cantate, Non hanno questo honor sopra le chiome. Che le lor canne non son battezzate, Ne' nome ha l' una Pier, l' altra Maria Come hanno le campane prelibate._[2] [Footnote 2: AGNOLO FIRENZUOLA.] The bells of St. George's, Doncaster, I say, were not christened, because they were Protestant bells; for distinction's sake however we will name them as the bells stand in the dirge of that unfortunate Cat whom Johnny Green threw into the well. But it will be better to exhibit their relative weights in figures, so that they may be seen synoptically. Thus then;— Cwt. qr. lb. Bim the first 7 . . 1 . . 14 Bim the second 8 . . 0 . . 18 Bim the third 8 . . 2 . . 6 Bim the fourth 10 . . 3 . . 15 Bim the fifth 13 . . 1 . . 0 Bim the sixth 15 . . 2 . . 16 Bom 22 . . 1 . . 0 Bell 29 . . 1 . . 20