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Show Ghostly Christmas Bells to Greet Merry Yulefide A MONGST the bells which will ring out to greet the coming Yuletlde will be many ghostly peals, heard on no other night In the year; for tra dition says that the bells of all buried churches join the chorus every Christmas Christ-mas eve. There are the bells of Raleigh, once a prosperous village in Nottingham shire, now only a country valley. All sign of habitation was swallowed up many years ago by an earthquake. It is said that every Christmas eve the bells of the old church are heard to ring again. A legend of this kind Is told of a country church near Preston, the very name of which nobody knows. In Holland the story of the city ol Been Is told every Christmas. This wonderful place was famous tor its nagnificance and beauty, and also for Its wickedness and shamelessness. One day the whole city was swallowed up by the sea. The submerged bells of Dunwich. oow covered by the sea, are said to loin the ghostly chorus. |