It is like the note of a wind instrumentan oboe adding its slow note to the boom of the kettle-drum, the clang of gold-colored cymbals, and the singing ecstasy of violins.

"I'm saying what I've said beforethat I've scratched my name on my plate, and I won't eat off this rusty, battered kettle-lid." He held it up as if to shy it at the Boy.

"Sure I'll just go along wid ye into the kitchen, an' if I don't have that kettle bilin' in next to no time my name's not Pat Rooney.

You know about as much how to sail a ship as I would how to run a steam-engine from seeing a tea-kettle boil.

" "Then buy half a loaf," said I, wheeling about and resuming my walk, not without a good many hard epithets in return from my kettle-boiler.

A short time ago the bursting of a funnel-casing on board the finest and strongest ship that ever was built, on her trial trip, destroyed several lives and put several hundreds in jeopardynot from any undetected flaw in her new and untried worksbut from a tap being closed which ought not to have been closedfrom what every child knows would make its mother's tea-kettle burst.

The coals beneath the kettle croon, And clap their hands and dance in glee; And even the kettle hums a tune To tell you when it's time for tea.

Then there are kettle-drummers and other musicians, likewise richly arrayed and well mounted, and the various pages, grooms, and officers belonging to the Prince of Wales, standing around his charger, which is caparisoned with white and gold.

'Maids, maids, maids, hang on your tea-kettle-ettle-ettle,' some people fancy the bird says, and the short song fits these words very well.

" He ran upstairs, and found Kinch and Caddy busy putting on more water, they having exhausted one kettle-fullinto which they had put two or three pounds of cayenne pepperon the heads of the crowd below.

Kind friends are left behind, the kettle hisses, the iron horse snorts, the Hudson is passed, New York is gained, the journey is behind me, bread, butter, and Bohea before me.

"I never heard of a hanker; it looks some like a kettle-hook.

It was a low, cheerful little room that he came into, stooping his tall head: a tea-kettle humming and singing on the wood-fire, that lighted up the coarse carpet and the gray walls, but spent its warmest heat on the low settee where Lois lay sewing, and singing to herself.

In a moment she returned with a kettle-lifter, improvised very simply from a forked branch of a sapling.

"I see the square," answered the commandant, "with five hundred kettle-lights, and three thousand Mussulmans gorging themselves, making up lost time.

These wears are now called "kettles" or "kettle-nets" in Kent and Cornwall.] 34.

A low tea-table set out for two, A divan with cushions piled on high, Dresden tea-cups of pink and blue, A fat little kettle simmering nigh, In winter a fire that cracks and roars, In summer a window where breezes play.

There's a good spring-bed in it, and a kettle-ring for the whisky.

[Illustration: Wire Dishcloth] For cleaning; iron pots, use soft water and soap or washing-soda with a wire dishcloth or kettle scraper.

I soon understood the situation; had known for years that the Southern threats, which Northern men laughed at as "tin kettle thunder," were the desperate utterances of lawless men, in firm alliance with the "Hierarchy of Rome for the overthrow of this Republic.

From the kettle arrangement in the bows came the sound of hot water singing merrily, while from the spout steam issued hissing.

EGGS PIQUANT Set to boil the following mixture: Pour into the kettle water to the depth of about one inch, adding a little salt and half a cup of vinegar.

A Nubian clothed in castor-oil, and descending from the heavens by a slippery seat upon a rainbow, might as well attempt to describe the beauties of our sphere as the caged traveller at the tail of the boiling kettle attempt to convey much idea of the scenery he passes through.