See how na-ture now re-joices In this sun-ny month of May; Still to God from all its voices Giv-ing prais-es day by day.

] Wil-lie was of an in-dus-tri-ous mind, and did not love to sit i-dle when e-ven his ti-ny strength might be used to some end.

Quiet people were beginning to express some dissatisfaction with the noise made by these fellows, who, however, kept pretty much by themselves, as yet, and had got only to the musical stage of the proceedings, chorusing with unearthly yells a song contributed to the harmony of the afternoon by the first ruffian, the burden of which ran, "When this old hat was ny-oo, my boys, When this old hat was ny-oo-ooo!"

Quiet people were beginning to express some dissatisfaction with the noise made by these fellows, who, however, kept pretty much by themselves, as yet, and had got only to the musical stage of the proceedings, chorusing with unearthly yells a song contributed to the harmony of the afternoon by the first ruffian, the burden of which ran, "When this old hat was ny-oo, my boys, When this old hat was ny-oo-ooo!"

"Dear lit-tle Snap, you fun-ny pup

"Oh! Tom," she cried, "is a-ny-thing the matter?" "My knee," groaned Tom, "it hurts aw-ful-ly.

[Illustration: A bird so fool-ish is the Nod-dy, It may be caught by a-ny-bo-dy.]

[Illustration: We all at Mon-keys love to gaze, And watch their fun-ny tricks and ways.]

The terrific scene enacted so directly before his eyes, produced an effect on the Albon-ny man, who consented to haul aft his main-sheet, lower his studding-sail and top-sail, come by the wind, stand across to the Wallingford, heave-to, and lower a boat.