"And how are the folks, Jack?" asked Sam as they drove along, the sleighbells jingling merrily in the frosty air.

these women!" The jingling of sleighbells set the keener-eared of the guests to listening.

Further speeds the sledge, and further, Loud the sleighbell's melody, Grewsome, frightful 'tis becoming, 'Mid these snow fields now to be! Hasten!

Sudden halt the weary horses, Silent too the sleighbells whirr Look!

Dies in silent distance Sleighbell clangor strong, And the careless, merry, Sorrow-troubling song.

All sounds are musical,the voices of children, the cooing of doves, the crowing of cocks, the chopping of wood, the creaking of country sleds, the sweet jangle of sleighbells.

'Sleighbells,' replied the accomplices.