He hummed a little tune, as Brutus knelt before him to help him on with a new pair of top boots, spotless and shining.

If there is an unusual genius in the bootblacksome remnant of ancient Greecehe plays such a lively tune that one's shoulders jig to it.

In connection with the inclement weather that often prevails throughout the spring months it is commonly said, "They that go to their corn in May may come weeping away," but "They that go in June may come back with a merry tune."

Ha, these are sweet tunes.

Tomaso Giordani, another Italian, composed at her request the old familiar tune "Cambridge," for the hymn in the Countess's book commencing, "Father, how wide Thy glory shines!" VI. LADY HUNTINGDON'S CHAPELS.

Somewhere near a man was playing on the flageolet, a light, pretty tune which set her feet tripping.

Outside a man was seated whistling a cheerful tune.

Then there were other choruses, which were heard from time to time,"And the young gals goes a-weepin',""O long storm, storm along stormy"; but the favorite tune was "Money down," at least with our crew.

"They had some lovely tunes," she said.

What there can be in that grand old church-tune that is so offensive to birds and squirrels I can't imagine.

In his solitary retreat on the shore of the sea, whose mobile surface was visible through the open, windows, extending outward until it mingled with the horizon, Padre Florentino was relieving the monotony by playing on his harmonium sad and melancholy tunes, to which the sonorous roar of the surf and the sighing of the treetops of the neighboring wood served as accompaniments.

It was a rhymed farce in which the dialogue was sung or chanted by the characters to popular ballad tunes.

mere tune) fades with familiarity, and requires either to be revived by intermittence, or fed by continual novelty.

It was 'Home, Sweet Home,' and that was my mother's favourite tune; in fact, I never heard it without thinking of her.

Forgotten fugue, a solemn tune, The bars of stately rigadoon.

The more doleful his tune the happier his wife knew him to be.

The leaves practice a sleepy tune.

The grey song-sparrows full of spring have sung Their clear thin silvery tunes in leafless trees; The robin hops, and whistles, and among The silver-tasseled poplars the brown bees Murmur faint dreams of summer harvestries; The creamy sun at even scatters down A gold-green mist across the murmuring town.

Another of their queer, wild, irregular tunes, I thought; I was not going to sing it.

What a careless tune he hums, And how innocently comes Hurrying.

About three months ago I heard one of his most pathetic tunes sung in the market-place by an old man and two young women.

" Inspired by the remembrance, she straightway began to hum the monotonous tune of that grasshopper dance, imitating the hopping steps and the quick jerks of the arms, marking the time with ever-increasing rapidity on her left hand, as if it were a tambourine.

" He laid his cheek down on his little fiddle,you don't know how Tommy loved that little fiddle,and struck up a gay, rollicking tune, "I care for nobody and nobody cares for me.

He was delivered from the burthen of that death; and, when Death came himself, not in metaphor, to fetch Dicky, it is recorded of him by Robert Palmer, who kindly watched his exit, that he received the last stroke, neither varying his accustomed tranquillity, nor tune, with the simple exclamation, worthy to have been recorded in his epitaphO La!

They kept shouting at the top of their voices, and were heard far above the music of the bands that enlivened the entertainment by a succession of brisk and cheerful tunes.