Questions tagged [the-chimes]
"The Chimes: A Goblin Story" (1844), a novella by Charles Dickens. Use this tag with the [charles-dickens] tag.
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In Dickens' "The Chimes", why do bells have godparents and mugs?
Not long into The Chimes: A Goblin Story, one of Dickens' lesser-known Christmas stories, there's this paragraph about bells:
They were old Chimes, trust me. Centuries ago, these Bells had been ...
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