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Updated: June 11, 2025
Along the verdurous, gray lanes the houses seemed abandoned, shuttered, filled with shade. From the court-house green came the chime of cow-bells rising and falling in slow waves of sound. A spotted calf stood bleating in the crooked footpath, which traversed diagonally the waste of buttercups like a white seam in a cloth of gold.
"We don't take what don't belong to us." "Cow-bells, for instance," put in Bill's hired hand, with a provoking intonation. Jim stopped and his face twisted with rage; Ike paused a little farther on down the path. Jim came closer. "Say, I know what you're driving at and you're a liar, and for a leather cent I'd lick you like hell!" "You can't do it. You don't weigh enough."
The spielers among the hens were announcing that the day's business was off to a good start, with prospects never brighter, dogs barked, calves bawled, cow-bells jangled there was even a murmur of talking. "They are not dead," said Pearl, as she listened, bareheaded, at the gate, "not dead, except to me but they are not going to let the children come! "They have turned me down!"
The spot where now stand your prettiest towns and villages, was then a howling wilderness. Instead of the tinkling of the cow-bells and the merry whistle of the farmer-boy as he calls his herd to the fold, might be heard the wild cry of the panther, the howl of the wolf; and the equally appalling yell of the aborigines.
It was only himself and Grendel, no story at all, merely lovers parting and meeting again, each believing the other dead, and in the end living happily to the sound of cow-bells, that showed how rich they were in herds.
Dogs and boys were howling and barking; men were laughing, shouting, groaning, and blowing horns, whooping, and clanking cow-bells, whinnying, and howling, and rattling pots and pans. "They are coming this way," said little White. "You had better go into the house, Patty." "So had you." "No. I'm going to see if I can't stop them." "Why, White!"
The noise of their busy teeth on the hard wood rang loud upon the stillness, and a low tonk-a-tonk of cow-bells came from the pasture as the cows lifted their heads to listen. The tub was a perfectly good tub, and Mrs. Gammit was indignant at seeing it eaten.
He made a collection which filled five large salons, and comprehended all the different sorts of cow-bells that ever had been contrived, save one. That one an antique, and the only specimen extant was possessed by another collector. My uncle offered enormous sums for it, but the gentleman would not sell. Doubtless you know what necessarily resulted.
From a pasture up the slope a tinkle of cow-bells sounded; a puff of smoke hung over the farm in the valley, trailed on the pure air and was gone. For a few minutes, in the clear light that is all shadow, fields and woods were outlined with an unreal precision; then the twilight blotted them out, and the little house turned gray and spectral under its wizened apple-branches.
The notes of birds, the chatter of brooks, the tinkle of cow-bells came again, with the dreams of a barefoot boy. Something of calm and a newer hope and fresher resolution was vouchsafed to them all when the wholesome young preacher held a homely service, in response to their earnest request.
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