Line 2.0.0 ing for opportunities to get into churches and ring bells.

Line 2.0.1 Apparently these curious types of men and wOmen_would have little

Line 2.0.2 sympathy idijh the plaintive protest of 'Teddo jWells' aggjpst the monotony

Line 2.0.3 of a life ma&e up in some measure of 'ringin' bells and groomin' for the

Line 2.0.4 priest.' ? *

Line 2.0.5 At many of the churches in England they have 'waiting lists' of young

Line 2.0.6 people who frantically desire to gratify their taste in bell-ringing.' It may

Line 2.0.7 be argued, of course, that bells have a pleasant sound and are much to be

Line 2.0.8 preferred to raucous human voices, the shrieking of machinery, the tooting

Line 2.0.9 of motor horns, the screams of sirens, and the other noises which in densely

Line 2.0.10 populated areas combine to make life a nightmare for highly strung or un

Line 2.0.11 duly sensitive people. But it is a strange hobby which reflects curiously on

Line 2.0.12 the mentality of those rwho eagerly seek to make it the 'fashion.'

Line 2.0.13 George Bernard Shaw says somewhere that when he sees adultrmen and

Line 2.0.14 women, quite evidently sane in all other respects, gloomily hitting little

Line 2.0.15 white rubber-cored balls about green fields, and often being seized with

Line 2.0.16 spasms of pain and annoyance, he feels .that he has lived and written in

Line 2.0.17 vain ! One wonders what the famous man would think of the Jiell-ringing

Line 2.0.18 craze? ... j

Line 2.0.19 There is a story that a golf infatuate was actually ' cured by bell

Line 2.0.20 ringing — but of course no true devotee of the royal and ancient game will

Line 2.0.21 credit this unless documentary evidence is produced to support it. The

Line 2.0.22 story goes that an architect devoted to golf was induced to go with a friend

Line 2.0.23 on a bell-ringing expedition. The architect went under persuasion, but was

Line 2.0.24 not averse from pulling a rope, after seeing his friend Co it. He derived

Line 2.0.25 such mental and physical satisfaction from the effort (and the exercise

Line 2.0.26 of pulling the rope) that he has now abandoned the golf course. Any cveri:

Line 2.0.27 ing he may be found waiting his turn to get a chance to add to the noise

Line 2.0.28 of the nation by vigorously tugging^at bell-ropes wherever and whenever

Line 2.0.29 opportunity offers.

Line 2.0.30 One expert proudly says that England leads the way in bell-tinging

Line 2.0.31 and in sending missionaries in the art 'to America, Australia, Tasmania

Line 2.0.32 (evidently not classed as a part of Australia), and South Africa.' * U.S.A.,