church-bell-ringer

Updated: July 4, 2025

Major Veasey, "Swiffy," the doctor, our rollicking interpreter M. Phineas, and myself all took turns at digging a hole for its burial; and there was plenty of laughter, because old Phineas refused to go near the horse without swathing his face in a scarf, and when wielding the pick raised it full-stretch above his head before bringing it, with slow dignity, to earth for all the world like a church-bell-ringer.

George Herbert Fosdike Nichols - Pushed and the Return Push