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Updated: May 14, 2025
As the little party walked on, Miss Katharine turned her head more than once for another look at the schoolhouse. "Wouldn't it be fun, Edy, to teach school in there and ring that 'lin-lan-lone bell' to call in the scholars? I'd make you study botany harder'n you ever did before." "No, thank you, Miss Dunlee," replied Edith, courtesying. "You'll not get me to worrying over botany.
The bell was directly over her head; and instead of the "mellow lin-lan-lone" she expected, it made a din so tremendous that it almost seemed as if the roof were about to fall upon her. At the same time there was a scrambling and pounding at the door. The children were trying to get in. "Oh, miserable me, I've locked them out!" thought the little teacher in dismay.
'Twill ring again in the evening at nine o'clock. But I can tell 'em they ought to set it back two minutes." "A nine o'clock bell? Why, that's a curfew bell! How romantic!" cried Kyzie. She had read of "the mellow lin-lan-lone of evening bells," but had never heard it. "Let's go to the schoolhouse."
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