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Added on: 23rd May 2016

 

QUASIMODO WAS THE FAMOUS

HUNCH BACK OF NOTRE DAME. 

AFTER HIS DEATH,

THE BISHOP OF HIS CATHEDRAL

SENT WORD THROUGH THE STREETS

OF PARIS THAT HE NEEDED

A NEW BELL RINGER.

 

THE BISHOP DECIDED THAT HE

WOULD CONDUCT THE INTERVIEWS

PERSONALLY AND SO HE WENT

UP INTO THE BELFRY TO BEGIN

THE SCREENING PROCESS.

 

AFTER OBSERVING SEVERAL

APPLICANTS DEMONSTRATE

THEIR SKILLS, HE SHOOK HIS HEAD.

NONE WERE AS GOOD AS QUASIMODO.

 

JUST AS THE BISHOP WAS LEAVING,

A MAN WITH NO ARMS APPROACHED

HIM AND ANNOUNCED THAT HE WAS

THERE TO APPLY FOR THE

BELL RINGER'S JOB.

 

THE BISHOP WAS INCREDULOUS.

'BUT, YOU HAVE NO ARMS!'

 

'NO MATTER', SAID THE MAN.

'OBSERVE!' AND HE BEGAN STRIKING

THE BELLS WITH HIS FACE,

PRODUCING A BEAUTIFUL MELODY

ON THE BELLS. 

 

THE BISHOP LISTENED IN ASTONISHMENT;

CONVINCED HE HAD FINALLY FOUND

A REPLACEMENT FOR QUASIMODO

 

BUT SUDDENLY, RUSHING FORWARD

TO HEAD THE BELL,

THE ARMLESS MAN TRIPPED

AND PLUNGED HEADLONG OUT

OF THE BELFRY WINDOW. 

 

SADLY, HE DIED ON THE STREET BELOW.

 

THE STUNNED BISHOP RUSHED

TO THE ARMLESS MAN.

WHEN HE REACHED THE STREET,

A CROWD HAD GATHERED AROUND

THE FALLEN FIGURE,

DRAWN BY THE BEAUTIFUL MUSIC

THEY HAD HEARD ONLY MOMENTS BEFORE.

 

AS THEY SILENTLY PARTED

TO LET THE BISHOP THROUGH,

ONE OF THEM ASKED,

 

'BISHOP, WHO WAS THIS MAN?' .

'I DON'T KNOW HIS NAME',

THE BISHOP SADLY REPLIED,

'BUT HIS FACE RINGS A BELL.'

 

Campanology Funny Story about Quasimodo and bell ringing

 

PART 2

 

THE NEXT DAY,

DESPITE THE SADNESS OF THE

UNFORTUNATE DEATH OF THE

ARMLESS CAMPANOLOGIST,

THE BISHOP CONTINUED HIS

INTERVIEWS FOR THE

BELL RINGER OF NOTRE DAME.

 

THE FIRST MAN TO APPROACH HIM SAID, '

YOUR EXCELLENCY,

I AM THE BROTHER OF THE POOR

ARMLESS WRETCH THAT FELL TO HIS DEATH

FROM THIS VERY BELFRY YESTERDAY.

I PRAY THAT YOU WILL HONOUR MY

BROTHER'S LIFE BY ALLOWING ME

TO REPLACE HIM AS YOUR

ESTEEMED BELL RINGER'.

 

THE BISHOP AGREED TO GIVE THE MAN

AN AUDITION AND, AS THE ARMLESS MAN'S

BROTHER STOOPED TO PICK UP A

MALLET TO STRIKE THE FIRST BELL,

HE GROANED, CLUTCHED AT HIS CHEST,

TWIRLED AROUND, AND DIED ON THE SPOT.

 

A MONK, HEARING THE BISHOP'S CRIES

OF GRIEF AT THIS SECOND TRAGEDY,

RUSHED UP THE STAIRS TO HIS SIDE.

 

'WHAT HAS HAPPENED?

WHO IS THIS MAN?'

THE MONK ASKED BREATHLESSLY.

 

'I DON'T KNOW HIS NAME',

SIGHED THE DISTRAUGHT BISHOP, BUT...  

Funny story about campanology - Bell ringers

 . .... 'He's was a dead ringer for his brother'.

 


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