# The daft days Author: Munro, Neil, 1864-1930 Genre: Category: Humour Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49906 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+daft+days+Munro&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary THE town's bell rang through the dark of the winter morning with queer little jolts and pauses, as if Wanton Wully Oliver, the ringer, had been jovial the night before. A blithe New-Year-time bell; a droll, daft, scatter-brained bell; it gave no horrid alarums, no solemn reminders that commonly toll from steeples and make good-fellows melancholy to think upon things undone, the brevity of days and years, the parting of good company, but a cheery ditty--"boom, boom, ding-a-dong boom, boom ding, hic, ding-dong," infecting whoever heard it with a kind of foolish gaiety. The burgh town turned on its pillows, drew up its feet from the bed-bottles, last night hot, now turned to chilly stone, ru... ## Chapters - [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-daft-days-49906/chapters/3/index.md) - [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-daft-days-49906/chapters/1/index.md) - [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-daft-days-49906/chapters/2/index.md) - [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-daft-days-49906/chapters/4/index.md) - [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-daft-days-49906/chapters/5/index.md) - [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-daft-days-49906/chapters/6/index.md)