" Whereupon PHELIM, who had breakfasted on gin-and-milk, began to hum that tune.

sighed Sir Jocelyn, and so fell once more to humming his song beneath his breath.

Jack blushed under the glance and began to hum an air from Figaro, as if the conversation had ebbed into an impass from which it could only be rescued by a lively air.

Evadne was swinging in the hammock one golden summer afternoon, humming soft snatches of her old songs while she played with her aunt's pet black and tan.

Every one loves flowers to some extent, at least in life's fresh morning, attracted by them as instinctively as humming-birds and bees.

Then they all built great fires and after a time roasted the does and broached a barrel of humming ale.

He hummed a bar.

Now Margaret has gone into Selwoode, flame-faced and quite unconscious that she is humming under her breath the words of a certain inane old song: "Oh, she sat for me a chair; She has ringlets in her hair; She's a young thing and cannot leave her mother" Only she sang it "father."

When warm from myrtle bays and tranquil seas, Comes on, to whisper hope, the vernal breeze, When hums the mountain bee in May's glad ear, And emerald isles to spot the heights appear, 1815.]

" I tendered my own case, from which he selected a cigar with anxious care and much sniffing; then he bade me a ceremonious adieu and departed down the stairs, blithely humming a melody from the latest comic opera.

One little girl after another would go proudly to the "mother's chair" and rock the cradle, while the other children hummed their gentle lullabies.

Slip was riding a big chestnut mare down the street and humming an accompaniment to the tune she was playing with her bit.

Yea, yours that magisterial skill whereby God put all Heaven in a woman's eye, Nature's own mighty and mysterious art That knows to pack the whole within the part: The shell that hums the music of the sea, The little word big with Eternity, The cosmic rhythm in microcosmic things One song the lark and one the planet sings, One kind heart beating warm in bird and tree To hear it beat, who knew so well as he? Virgil of prose!

At intervals a faint glimmer might be discerned behind the sodden 'chicks' which shrouded the windows; and once the stillness was broken by a voice humming a refrain from an Indian drama: "Jahan jahan mukam rahe, amne jhulakiram rahe, Safarse ghar ko to phire, Aman-chaman khuda rakhe.

" Then followed a brief awkward pause, during which Priam Farll coughed and the doctor rubbed his hands and hummed a fragment of melody.

"Thanks; I shall not be long away;" and giving her a glance that made her turn scarlet with anger at its undisguised admiration, he walked away, humming gayly to himself Goethe's lines, "Maiden's heart and city's wall Were made to yield, were made to fall; When we've held them each their day, Soldier-like we march away.

" We sat down again, panting, the signorina between her gasps still faintly humming the psalm of liberty.

Once Bob tried to cheer up and hum a ditty, but the effort was a dismal failure.

No humming-bird in emerald coat, Shedding the light, and bearing fain His ebon spear, while at his throat The ruby corselet sparkles plain, On wings of misty speed astain With amber lustres, hangs amain, And tireless hums his happy strain; Emperor of some primeval reign, Over the ages sails to spill The luscious juice of this, and thrill Its very heart with blissful pain.

In a musical but unappreciated barytone he hummed the initial line of "The Girl I Left Behind Me." "'The maids of France are fond and free.' "Besides," he added, "it's quite unhealthy there at this season.

And while Mrs. Parker was conveying these ideas to Miss 'Viny, they were being illustrated in her own house after this fashion: "'Tenty," (three weeks had abolished the Miss,) "won't you give me that blue book off the shelf?" 'Tenty sprang up and handed the book, and went to her work again, beginning under her breath to hum "Sweet fields beyond" "Dear me!

Stella was humming the words of the song, her fingers picking at the melody instead of the accompaniment.

And I will mourn upon A U, The death of L N G, And all the charming maids of Q Will pity the poor B. I will hum soft her L E G, The reason some ask Y, Because the maiden could not C, By me she lost her I. To soothe ye damsels I'll S A, Far sooner would I B Myself in funeral R A, Than wound one fair at T. F.H.

" "Cà et là, Toute la journée, Le vent vain va En sa tournée," hummed the girl, with a careless dismissal of the subject.

It used to annoy me considerable when I asked him the price of pork tenderloins to have him mumble through two or three verses till he fetched it up, but I didn't have any real kick coming till he got ambitious and I had to wait till he'd hummed half through a grand opera to get a quotation on pickled pigs' feet in kits.