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When the Hunchback retired, Notre Dame advertises for a new bell ringer. After several promising candidate’s a boy with no arms walks up the tower and says he’s ready to work. The Chaplin looks at him and says you have no arms son you can’t possibly ring the bell. The boy says that nobody ever gives him a chance and starts to walk away and the Chaplin says ok son give it a try. He looks around and see’s an old barrel and a wooden plank and with his feet and body manage to set up a ramp. Then he takes a run up the ramp leaps into the air and smacks the bell with his face, DONG goes the bell. The Chaplin with mouth agape says that was amazing but at noon he has to ring the bell 12 times. The boy gets up and runs and leaps DONG runs and leaps DONG runs and totally dazed misses the bell and flies out the window of the tower onto the ground below. By the time the Chaplin runs out of the bell tower to the boy a large crowd has gathered and so has the constable. The Chaplin knells down next to the boy and says my lad I never should have let you try. The constable says to the Chaplin do you know the boy, and the Chaplin says no but his face rings a bell.


15 posted on 04/24/2020 8:56:15 AM PDT by unclejohncornbread
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Then another boy with no arms shows up for the job. He says that the other armless man who died was his brother and he wants to take over the job. The priest at first says no, but the boy looks so sad that he finally gives him a chance. The boy runs up and rings the bell with his face, just like his brother. He becomes dazed and falls out of the tower to his death. The priest runs down where a crowd has gathered. A policeman asks him if he knows the dead man. The priest answers, “No, but he's a dead ringer for his brother”.
16 posted on 04/24/2020 9:02:12 AM PDT by Family Guy (A society's first line of defense is not the law but customs, traditions and moral values. -Williams)
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