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Under the shadow of University Remsen paused to light his pipe, and, without considering, the two found themselves a moment later seated on the steps. From the avenue the clang-clang of car gongs sounded sharp and clear, and red and white and purple lights flitted like strange will-o'-wisps through the half light, and disappeared into the darkness beyond the common.

"Clang-clang! clang-clang! Clang " The last clang is broken off suddenly, as though the rope has been jerked from the ringer's hands, but Saxham is not diverted by it from his occupation.

That's the starter's bell. Yes we'll score now the fus' heat'll be our wuss. They've got it in fur us they'll set the pace an' try to shet us out an', likely es not, do it. God he'p us Shiloh Cap'n Tom it's only for them, Ben Butler fur them. Clang clang-clang! vigorously. The starter was calling them back.

A big conductor reached down his hand to the child. The bell clanged again and they were off "Clang-clang, clear the track! Betty Harris is going home This is the people's carriage Going home! Going home! Clear the track clang-clang!" Through the blinking city streets they rode.

Then he gathered his apparatus and grunted up to the high seat. Far behind them the excited clang-clang of the Methodist bell was pealing its first alarm. "By the time they git hosses up out of the fields and hitched onto 'Hecla, and git their buckets and didoes and git started, I reckon things will be fried on both sides at Ben Ide's," chatted the peddler. "Lick up! Lick up!" barked the Cap'n.

I remember one of these occasions, when Ching came flying up out of the hatch, followed by a roar of laughter, and as he reached the deck, clang-clang went something against the sides of the hatch; but Ching paid no heed, running forward till he was right up by the side of the bowsprit. I followed quickly, feeling angry on the man's behalf. "What's the matter?" I cried.

The taxi was held up at the juncture of the Embankment and Blackfriars Bridge, and was held up again for a different reason in Queen Victoria Street. Suddenly there was a clang-clang of gongs, and all traffic drew to one side to allow the passage of a flying motor fire-engine. Another and another followed in succession. "A big fire," said Whiteside.

Why, she ain't but a little old, and yet she can stand right up on her two little legs as cute as you please." I listened with mild interest as he rambled on. He seemed such a friendly, homely soul that I could but regard him more kindly than I did some of our keener-witted fellow seamen. Now we heard faintly the bell as it struck, clang-clang, clang-clang, clang-clang.

On every quarter-hour, night and day, they jingle a tiresome chime of half a dozen notes all the clocks in town at once, all the clocks in Australasia at once, and all the very same notes; first, downward scale: mi, re, do, sol then upward scale: sol, si, re, do down again: mi, re, do, sol up again: sol, si, re, do then the clock say at midnight clang clang clang clang clang-clang clang clang clang clang and, by that time you're hello, what's all this excitement about? a runaway scared by the train; why, you think this train could scare anything.

I do not pretend to understand the reason, but in my experience it is the trifling unimportant things that after a time of stress or tragedy are most clearly remembered. When next I woke I heard the bell clang-clang, clang-clang, clang-clang, clang faint and far off. Then I saw that Blodgett was sitting on the edge of his bunk, counting the strokes on his fingers.