This winder is known as The Five Sisters; the pattern bein’ took, it is said, from embroideries these maiden wimmen made.
Josiah said, when the guide mentioned it, “Good for the old maids! they done well.”
But as I looked upon that marvellous poem of glowin’ color, I felt beyend words, but I could still think. And I thought proudly of the exquisite work my sect had wrought, and I wuz glad for the moment that I too wuz a woman; and though seven hundred years lay between them noble sisters and myself, yet I felt that our hearts, our souls, touched each other in that pleasant day of 1895.
Wall, Passin’ Time and Josiah tore me away from the contemplation of that glory, that wonder, that delight—unequalled, I believe, in the hull world.
And at Martin’s request, for he said that he should be asked about it probble, and would wish to be prepared with answers, we went out on a little stun platform or bridge outside, from which we had a view of the hull glowin’ interior—a vista of leafy gothic arches, and sculptered columns, more’n five hundred feet in length, and at the end the great west winder, with the figgers of the eight earliest Archbishops of York, and to keep ’em company, eight saints and other figgers.
All seemin’ly a-standin’ in the glowin’ light took from the most gorgeous western sunset. They wuz put up about five hundred years ago, and I can’t begin to describe the beauty and richness of colorin’, and design, nor Josiah can’t.
There wuz lots of other winders, too, that would be remarkable anywhere else. And among ’em wuz one over the entrance that they called the Marygold winder, circles of small arches in the form of a wheel, the color of which makes it look some like that flower.
Though, as Josiah well said—“Nobody ever hearn before of a marygool thirty feet acrost.”
In the vestries we see some historical relicks. One of the oldest is the great Saxon Drinkin’ Horn, by which the church holds valuable estate near York.
The old chieftain, Ulphus, knelt at the altar and drinked out of the horn, and by this act gave to the church all his land, housen, etc., etc., givin’ to the fathers this horn as a title-deed.