For general accuracy and vividness: The organ-grinder The signs of an approaching storm The arrival of the train Mail-time at the village post office The crowd at the auction The old fishing-boat A country fair (or a circus)

It was as if someone had mentioned spaghetti to the relict of an Italian organ-grinder.

No theatre,no concert,no music at all, but from organ-grinders,no parties,nothing, in fact, but prayer-meetings from one week's end to another.

So delightful did this man's occupation seem to me, that I can remember quite well when my father asked me one day what I would like to be when I was a man, I answered without a moment's hesitation, 'An organ-grinder, of course, father.'

Remaining at home one evening, when Lady Lumley and a party of friends, including D'Orelli, have gone off to dine at a restaurant, the Earl chances to look out of the window, and observes an organ-grinder making doleful music in the snow.

The conversation between them is carried on by means of signs, for the organ-grinder knows no English, and the Earl is painfully and improbably ignorant of Italian.

Then the organ-grinder slung his instrument with an experienced twist and twirl across his shoulders, and took off his cap.

The organ-grinder handed round his cap, up and down the crooked line of his audience.

The two sober boys at one end dropped in a number of pennies, one at a time deliberately, "Bless ye!" murmured the organ-grinder, gratefully.

"Is the young gent took ill?" inquired the organ-grinder, solicitously.

They found it hard work to find pennies enough to drop into the organ-grinder's cap at every round.

o' me to 'say,' your honor," the organ-grinder murmured humbly, and Jot gave him a violent nudge.

There weren't any old ladies with empty water pails, or any cows in corn lots, so I had to take up with the poor old organ-grinder.

" "All!" scoffed Jot, "Go on with the rest of it, Kent Eddy!" "Isn't any 'rest,'" grunted Kent, "unless you count the organ-grinder; he had some-looked as if he'd rested.

"Well, the organ-grinder likes it, too!"

"Organ-grinder?" queried Toddie.

" Budge looked like an angel at once, but Toddie murmured mournfully, "I fought it wash an organ-grinder.

Or if, suddenly reversing your line of argument, you plead that this would impoverish the Irishman, you can at least treat him as you do the organ-grinder, and pay him an extra fee to go on to your next neighbor.

Perhaps there was a time in Mr. Smith's youth,he remembers it now,when he read poetry, when his cheek was wet with strange tears, when a little song, ground out by an organ-grinder in the street, had power to set his heart beating and bring a mist before his eyes.

For twenty minutes I behave like an organ-grinder.

This monkey was not a very large one,not over a foot high,but he could cut capers and play tricks equal to any monkey you ever saw travelling with an organ-grinder.

I thought that time the way our Isadore ran after the organ-grinder he would be the one.

Are you aware that, owing to profiteering in the cloth trade, organ-grinders have been unable to provide their Simian assistants with proper habiliments during the recent inclement weather?"Apes are apes though clothed in scarlet"or broadcloth.

Mr. ERNEST HENDRIE, who was translated from an organ-grinder to a maker of faces, played very soundly, but seemed to me a little too deliberate and conscious in his speech.

The old man kept on fiddling, apparently paying no attention to them, until his small audience, reviling and mocking him, left him and gathered around an organ-grinder who had taken up his position near by.