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"The sleigh-bell man? Yes, I know him well." "Has he told you about the silver stock?" "No." "He has been investing in Deming's " "Oh, d n Deming! He's a nuisance with his silver stock." "Yes, but he gets the boys in all the same. Henley has bought a lot in Providence on the strength of his investment, and Deacon Hall, of Wallingford, will buy out Wallace when his dividends come in.
As we walked up to it, the lamb came up to me bleating, licked my hand, and then I noticed there was a little sleigh-bell tied to its neck with a blue ribbon.
I had seen that more than once. It was that the falcon was fitted with a sort of leash about both talons, and from the leash hung a round bit of metal like a sleigh-bell. The bird turned its fierce yellow eyes on me, and then stooped and struck its curved beak into the quarry. At the same instant hurried steps sounded among the heather, and a girl sprang into the covert in front.
When I couldn't stand it no longer, I took an' jingled the sleigh-bell. "'I'm a-goin', I says, 'to hang this outside the door here, an' run this nice long string through the transom. An' to-morrow, I says, 'when you want anything, just you pull the string a time or two, an' I'll be somewheres around. "She clapped her hands, her eyes shinin'. "'Oh, goodey! she says. 'Now I won't be alone.
"Entirely for effect!" he said, "Well planned and quite worthy of you! All for effect!" A laugh, clear and cold as a sleigh-bell on a frosty night rang out on the silence. "Why did you run away from me?" He replied at once, and brusquely. "Because I was tired of you!" She laughed again.
It is not all xylophonic, but there is in it, too, the clink of musical glasses and also a certain weirdness, a goblin withal that seems to belong with the mystery surrounding the origin of pickerel fishermen. It is a sound to delight the ear and linger pleasantly in the memory like the sleigh-bell tinkling of ice crystals in a frozen wood.
"Well, that afternoon I went down an' hunted up a rusty sleigh-bell I'd seen in the basement, an' I rubbed it up an' tied a string to it, an' 'long in the evenin' I went upstairs an' rapped at Mr. Loneway's door. "'I called, I says, 'to ask after your wife, if I might. "'If you might, he says after me. 'I thank the Lord you're somebody that will. Come in, he told me. "They had two rooms.
His name was Blint Sir W. Blint, Bart.... Lie back on the moss and let your bruised feet hang in the pool.... Here this way rest that yellow head of yours against my knees. ... Are you snug?" "Yes." "Hold out your hands. These were his trinkets." The girl cupped her hands to receive the rings, watch, the gold whistle in its little gem-set chains, and the sleigh-bell on its bracelet.
He unlimbered himself, and hurried to the door at the other end of the cabin, which he opened, letting in a clear block of the afternoon sunshine, and a gush of sleigh-bell music, shot with men's voices, and the cries and laughter of women. "Well, sir," said Kinney, coming back and making haste to roll down his sleeves and put on his coat. "Here's a nuisance!
Afterward he took from the bones of the hand two rings, a wrist-watch, a whistle which still hung by a short chain and a round object attached to a metal ring like a sleigh-bell. There was a hollow just beyond, made once in time of flood by some ancient mountain torrent long dry, and no longer to be feared.
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