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The Chimes A Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang an Old Year out and a New Year In

Charles Dickens · 1844

An 1844 Christmas novella by Charles Dickens, The Chimes follows Toby Veck, a poor elderly ticket-porter who waits for work outside a church whose old bells ring out on New Year's Eve, in a goblin story marking the passing of the old year.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

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