Later, somewhere in the distance, like a tolling bell, I heard his words: "Lael, should we do this every Saturday?
Stories as to how it received its famous crack vary; one tells that it occurred while tolling the funeral of Chief Justice Marshall in 1835.
The bells of the little town were tolling for church.
"The bodies are carried away by night, with no tolling bell; the half dead in the streets are taken with them.
Then the dead were carried to the grave with the sound of solemn music, and the tolling of the church bells.
"We are not tolling for little Kay; we do not know him.
Two of the sisters stood up in the tower tolling the bell; they were both young, and therefore their glances flew over the mountain out into the world.
