r-r-ringing

Updated: May 24, 2025

Forming a semicircle in the open air, the exercises were opened by a song, 'O my Country, sung by clear r-r-ringing childish voices...." It was the last item on the program, and by mutual and silent consent, Tillie and Fairchilds, at the first stir of the audience, slipped out of the schoolhouse together. Tillie's father was in the audience, and so was Absalom.

Helen Reimensnyder Martin - Tillie, a Mennonite Maid; a Story of the Pennsylvania Dutch