Legends of the city of Mexico / collected by Thomas A. Janvier ; illustrated by Walter Appleton Clark.
- Thomas Allibone Janvier
- Date:
- 1910
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Legends of the city of Mexico / collected by Thomas A. Janvier ; illustrated by Walter Appleton Clark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ancient yellowed parchment: which was pre¬ cisely the royal order, following the decree of the Consejo, that the bell should have its tongue tom out, and forever should remain tongueless and exiled over seas. With that order before him, even the Conde de Revillagigedo, Senor, did not venture to have a new tongue put into the bell and to set it to regular work again; but what he did do came to much the same thing. At that very time he was engaged in pushing to a brisk completion the repairs to the Palace—that had gone on for a hundred years languishingly, following the burning of it in the time of the Viceroy Don Gaspar de la Cerda—and among his repairings was the replacement of the Palace clock. Now a clock-bell, Senor, does not need a tongue in it, being struck with hammers from the out¬ side; and so the Conde, whose wits were of an alertness, perceived in a moment that by em¬ ploying the bell as a clock-bell he could make it useful again without traversing the king’s command. And that was what immediately he did with it—and that was how the Palace clock came to have foisted upon it this accursed bell. [82]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31349043_0124.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
