bell-collars

Updated: May 6, 2025

Then he was ready to bring home the goats again, long before sunset, for, by this time, the sun set late, and to take his turn at mending any fence that might have been injured by the spring-floods; and then he never forgot to wash and dress himself, and go in for his grandmother's blessing; and after all, he was not too tired to sit up as late as if he were a man, even till past nine sometimes, spending the last hour of the evening in working at the bell-collars which Hund had left half done, and which must be finished before the cattle went to the mountain: or, if the young ladies were disposed to dance, he was never too tired to play the clarionet, though it now and then happened that the tune went rather oddly; and when Orga and Frolich looked at him, to see what he was about, his eyes were shut, and his fingers looked as if they were moving of their own accord.

Harriet Martineau - Feats on the Fiord: The third book in "The Playfellow"