That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for December 11, 2017

Very few people knew about Quasimodo’s and Esmeralda’s love child.

And so the LOOOOONG bell rope was invented.

Wrap the clapper in some heavy cloth… blame the bell weather…

The bell ringers union, unlike others, goes off strike…

Wasn’t there a hunchback supposed to be doing this?

Well, ringa ding ding.

Before electricity, women often were hired to work the doorbell.

Exhausted after 3rd set of conditioning rope workout.

The Young Lady Bellringer:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Otto_Piltz_M%C3%A4dchen_als_Gl%C3%B6cknerin_1875.jpg 

(best viewed by Google Chrome – can translate pages if necessary) has info and links that point to info about this painting.

http://www.allstedt.com/content3.php?linkbez=Stadtwappen&linkid3=17&linkid2=31 

has German info about this artist (again Chrome can translate).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #1843 (December 10, 2017) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment; so, I won’t point to it here.

Crop-haired Rapunzel finds another solution

Tain’t no big thing

To wait for the bell to ring

Tain’t no big thing

The toll of the bell…

Love is the drug for me

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Roxy Music

https://youtu.be/2YKE140xf8c

I knew I would start at the bottom when I took this job, but when they told me I’d be moving up to a higher position, I had no idea this is what they meant.

“Did I just ring twelve or thirteen?”

“I don’t care if some angel doesn’t get its wings, I’m NOT ringing this freakin’ bell again!”

as city lookout for invaders, mary-lue has a long wait, with nothing to do.