[Long Winded] So the local church bell ringer dies.

There is a small village in rural England, which has a church. In the church lives a priest and the bell ringer. One morning the priest doesn't hear the morning bell ring so he goes to the bell ringers room to check on him. When he enters the room he sees the bell ringer dead in his bed.

The priest, although he is upset, makes some flyers about new bell ringer auditions and sticks them to every lamp-post in the village. The next day there is a huge line of people queuing outside the Church. The priest, surprised by the amount of people, eagerly welcomes them in one by one to see who is the best ringer. Around 200 people try out and the line slowly gets shorter and shorter until everyone has tried to impress the priest with their bell ringing.

Although there were some brilliant ringers that day non of them were up to the standards of the old bell ringer. The priest slumped in his chair, disappointed with the days outcome when suddenly he hears a bang on the door. He opens the door and doesn't see anyone..

"Down here!" A man shouts. The priest looks down and before him stood a man with no arms or legs. "I hope I'm not late for the bell ringing try outs" the man said.

"err... no you're not, come this way" the priest said unsurely. He carried the man up to the bell tower and placed him in front of the bell and the rope to ring it. The man starred at he bell for a while until he began to hit his head on it.. hard.. again.. and again. The priest was in complete awe at his amazing skills.

The man carried on.. hitting his head on the bell harder and harder, fastest and faster. Blood begins to appear.. trickling down his face but he keeps on going... eventually he falls to the ground. The priest kneels down to inspect him... he is unconscious.

The priest immediately runs into the village to go and get help. "Help! Somebody help!" he shouted. He gathered a small crowd of people and took them to church. They all gathered around the unconscious man. Upon closer inspection they realise he was dead.. the priest begins to cry.. "He was brilliant.. the best I have ever heard.... I didn't even know his name! Who was this man!?"

The crowd look at each other until one man stood out and said:

"I don't know his name.. but his face rings a bell."