Never shall you hear anything wintry from his warm breast; no pinched cheeping, no wavering notes between sorrow and joy; his mellow, fluty voice is ever tuned to downright gladness, as free from dejection as cock-crowing.

When it drops off a notebut you will not know it except the Douglas squirrel tells you with his high, fluty chirrup from the pines' aerial gloomsign that some star watcher has caught the first far glint of the nearing sun.

No sound but the monotonous, unemotional clock, and the woodpecker's fluty laugh from the orchard.

Their lips let off the fluty syllables just as their fingers would sprinkle the music-drops from their pianos; unconscious habit turns the phrase of thought into words just as it does that of music into notes.

Once more in the vast cathedral, with throngs of the living choking its aisles, amidst jubilant peals from the cavernous depths of the great organ, and choral melodies ringing from the fluty throats of the singing boys.