They'll talk and palaver and git into dark corners, and sharpen their knives, and perhaps fight it out as to which one's going to work the monkey-doodle business in the doctor's chest, and which one's going to tie up the sacks of them diamonds, but they won't git any farther as long as Captain Ezra is on deck."

And we played Yankee Doodle, first rate.

Not unfrequently, the pretty little creature was called upon to dance a pas seul; for she had improvised a dance for herself to the tune of Yankee Doodle, and it was very amusing to see how emphatically she stamped the rhythm.

I haven't enjoyed myself so well since I found Old Hundred and Yankee Doodle in the Harmolinks.

Bye, baby bunting Christmas comes but once a year Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat Clap, clap handies Cock-a-doodle-do!

Enoch Crosby was marching into the enemy's fort to the tune of Yankee Doodle, to assist in taking care of the prisoners.

"'I can do more,' rejoined Crosbyand then he went on to relate the interviews which he had hadand about the contemplated meeting of the company, two nights following'and,' said the soldier, 'if you will assist me, we will join them, as I promised, and make them march to the tune of good old 'yankee doodle,' instead of 'God save the king.'

"Mr. Cock A. Doodle, the rooster next door, was telling me that he thinks some one tried to get in his coop last night.

I got under it and found some doodle holes.

I would say: 'Doodle, doodle, your house on fire.

I would say: 'Doodle, doodle, your house on fire.

A cock came up to the threshold and crowed three times, "Cock-a-doodle doo!

The doodle bug.

One, two, cock-a-doodle-doo.

Mr. Digby and the doodle box.

WELCH, RUTH H. Mr. Digby and the doodle box.

Four bars of Yankee Doodle.

The doodle bug.

HADER, BERTA H. Cock-a-doodle doo; the story of a little red rooster, by Berta & Elmer Hader.

HADER, ELMER S. Cock-a-doodle doo.

She was not coming for a week or more, and in that time Andy tried his hand at Yankee Doodle, playing with one finger, and succeeding far beyond his most sanguine expectations.

It was not often that Ethelyn had favored the family with music, but she did so that night, playing and singing pieces which she knew were familiar to them, and only feeling a momentary pang of resentment when, at the close of "Yankee Doodle," with variations, quiet John remarked that Melinda herself could not go ahead of that!

"Seaghan buidhe," "An Sean duine," "Lament for Kilcash," "Ormonde's Lament," "Morin ni Chullenain," "All the Way to Galway" (the air of "Yankee Doodle"), "Caitlin ni Houlihan," "Balance a straw" ("The Wearing of the Green"), "St. Patrick's Day," "Plancam Peirbhig," are amongst the tunes in vogue at this period.

Used to mount a stump 'n' make a speech; told 'em I'd blow Yankee Doodle in glass, any color they wanted; give 'em that sort 'f gospel, ye know.

Listening, we heard the faint familiar strains of "Yankee Doodle."