Produced by Nick Wall, Nadine Margaret Whitcombe and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net The great cathedral bell was striking twelve. Slowly and solemnly it struck, and as it did so people looked at their watches and altered their clocks, for every one in the great city kept time by that grave old bell. Every one liked to hear it strike; but the school children liked it best of all, for they knew that with the last stroke of twelve lessons would be over, and they would be able to run home to dinner.…
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