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Updated: May 14, 2025
'Pryderi has had the knockers of the gate of my palace hung about him, and Rhiannon has carried the collars of my asses around her neck, said the bishop with a smile. From the 'Mabinogion. ONCE upon a time there dwelt in the land of Erin a young man who was seeking a wife, and of all the maidens round about none pleased him as well as the only daughter of a farmer.
In fact, the "rejeros," or iron master, was as regular an adjunct to a cathedral as an architect or a painter. Knockers were often very handsome in Spain, and even nail heads were decorated. An interesting specimen of iron work is the grille that surrounds the tomb of the Scaligers in Verolla.
For my own part I like the wind up we used to have in 'Old Trinity' formerly; when, after wringing off half a dozen knockers, breaking the lamps at the post-office, and getting out the fire engines of Werburgh's parish, we beat a few watchmen, and went peaceably to bed."
"Why, it was all we could do to keep you from wrenching off the knockers as well, wasn't it, Crow?" "Never thought we'd keep him from it," said Crow. "If the bobby hadn't turned up, I do believe he'd have wanted to smash the windows also." "You're making all this up," I said, half amused, half angry, and almost beginning to wonder whether all that was being said of me was true.
And there also existed a coordinate rule on the part of the Postmaster-General, or, rather, a privilege granted by that functionary, in accordance with which Stumfoldians, and other such sects of Sabbatarians, were empowered to prohibit the letter-carriers from contaminating their special knockers on Sunday mornings.
The large brass door knockers were vigorously plied, and sometimes quite a commotion was caused by "waking up the wrong passenger." In due time the stage made its appearance, with its four spirited horses, and the baggage was put on.
So ought the three-o'clock beer, in dirty high- lows, swinging himself over the railing, or executing a demoniacal jig upon the doorstep; so ought the butcher, although butchers as a general thing are scornful of such trifles; so ought the postman, to whom knockers of the most extravagant description were merely human weaknesses, that were to be pitied and used.
Of what use his wares on a building whose tower was robed in clouds and which used the chain lightning for a necklace? The Fourth Avenue antique dealer had another curio to add to his collection of andirons, knockers, snuff boxes and warming pans. But even as this quaint figure vanished there sprang up a new and glittering one to take his place.
The startled servant who let me in asked if there was anything the matter. I explained my early rising by telling him that I was merely going to Knockers' Llyn to see the sunrise. He gave me a letter which had come on the previous evening, and had been addressed by mistake to Carnarvon.
'I want to go the same way we went that day, and I want for you and me to see everythink as we seed it then from fust to last. I was haunted by Rhona Boswell's words, and wondered when she would begin talking about the wedding at Knockers' Llyn.
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