The Bell  Search on this Page:  People said "The Evening Bell is
sounding, the sun is setting." For a strange wondrous tone was
heard in the narrow streets of a large town. It was like the
sound of a church-bell: but it was only heard for a moment, for
the rolling of the carriages and the voices of the multitude
made too great a noise.  Those persons who were walking outside
the town, where the houses were farther apart, with gardens or
little fields between them, could see the evening sky still
better, and heard the sound of the bell much more distinctly. It
was as if the tones came from a church in the still forest;
people looked thitherward, and felt their minds attuned most
solemnly.  A long time passed, and people said to each other--"I
wonder if there is a church out in the wood? The bell has a tone
that is wondrous sweet; let us stroll thither, and examine the
matter nearer." And the rich people drove out, and the poor
walked, but the way seemed strangely long to them; and when they
came to a clump of