Quasimodo is retiring from Notre Dame Cathedral and is au-ditioning bell-ringers. He runs an ad in the French Gazette
and a guy from a nearby village applies. Quasi explains to the applicant that to ring the bell, he must grab the rope as high up as possible, pull it down to the floor and then let go.
“Go ahead, try it!” he says.
The guy grabs the rope and pulls it down to the floor, but fails to let go and the rope yanks him up and he bangs his head on the bell, knocking him unconscious.
Quasimodo immediately calls a physician and when the doctor gets there he asks him, “Do you know this fellow?”
“No,” answers Quasimodo, “but his face rings a bell…”