I have just composed it; it has even made me feel hot.

Dan, why doesn't the boy ring the bell?
Oh, yes, he is ringing.

The fool--he isn't swinging the right rope, but that doesn't matter; that's good enough, too.

Isn't it, Mariet ?" Two thin but merry bells are ringing.
Mariet is silent and Haggart answers for her: "That's good enough.

But what are the bells saying, abbot ?" The fishermen who have gathered about them are already prepared to laugh--the same undying jest is always repeated.
"Will you tell no one about it ?" says the abbot, in a deep voice, slily winking his eye.