The Daft Days

The Daft Days

By Neil Munro
Michael Caine
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Length9h 33m

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Excerpt: "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, rubbed its eyes, and knew by that bell it was the daftest of the daft days come. It cast a merry spell on the community; it tickled them even in their cosy beds. "Wanton Wully's on the ran-dan!" said the folk, and rose quickly, and ran to pull aside screens and blinds to look out in the dark on window-ledges cushioned deep in snow. The children hugged themselves under the blankets, and told each other in whispers it was not a porridge morning, no, nor Sunday, but a breakfast of shortbread, ham and eggs; and behold! a beautiful loud drum, careless as 'twere a reveille of hot wild youths, p. 2began to beat in a distant lane. Behind the house of Dyce the lawyer, a cock that must have been young and hearty crew like to burst; and at the stables of the post-office the man who housed his horses after bringing the morning mail through night and storm from a distant railway station sang a song..."

Audiobook details

GenreLiterary Classics
Length9 hrs 33 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 17, 2018
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1CHAPTER I.
18CHAPTER XVIII.
2CHAPTER II.
19CHAPTER XIX.
3CHAPTER III.
20CHAPTER XX.
4CHAPTER IV.
21CHAPTER XXI.
5CHAPTER V.
22CHAPTER XXII.
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6CHAPTER VI.
23CHAPTER XXIII.
7CHAPTER VII.
24CHAPTER XXIV.
8CHAPTER VIII.
25CHAPTER XXV.
9CHAPTER IX.
26CHAPTER XXVI.
10CHAPTER X.
27CHAPTER XXVII.
11CHAPTER XI.
28CHAPTER XXVIII.
12CHAPTER XII.
29CHAPTER XXIX.
13CHAPTER XIII.
30CHAPTER XXX.
14CHAPTER XIV.
31CHAPTER XXXI.
15CHAPTER XV.
32CHAPTER XXXII.
16CHAPTER XVI.
33CHAPTER XXXIII.
17CHAPTER XVII.
34CHAPTER XXXIV.

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