"Mustn't we pay the fiddler if we dance?"

But I see we have partners for the dance," looking critically at the girls, "and I claim first choice because I've brought the fiddler.

I found her father was an honest fellow enough, a fiddler in some theatre; that he'd taken good care of Mary till he died, leaving precious little but advice for her to live on.

She stayed every evening till it was dark in the skittle-ground, keeping the score; and one night, that the servants had a ball for Lady Dorothy's birthday, we fetched the fiddler into the drawing-room, and the dowager herself danced with us!

Every fiddler, he had a fiddle, And a very fine fiddle had he; Twee tweedle dee, tweedle dee, went the fiddlers.

And he must needs be a scurvy musician, that hath two fiddlers to his fathers: but tell me, in faith, art thou notnay, I know thou art, called down into the country here by some hoary knight or other who, knowing thee a young gentleman of good parts and a great living, hath desired thee to see some pitiful piece of his workmanship a daughter, I mean.

Then whispering in Betty's ear, "Did you ever hear Kitty speak of Billy the fiddler?" "There's no one within hearing," said Betty, as she finished her twelfth wreath and laid it carefully on the floor beside her cricket.

CONN People that would leave the best fiddler at the fair to go and look at a bullock.

The first would have married him, but her mother said she should never marry a fiddler.

But in large towns, in order to have a sleighing frolic in style, it is necessary to provide a fiddler who is placed at the head of the sleigh, and plays all the way.

But Franz Anton was so rabid a fiddler that he used to be seen playing his violin in public places, followed by his large family of children, or even sawing away in the open fields, to the neglect of his work and finally the loss of his position.

"I know I have," replied the fiddler.

Sirrah Jack, shall you and I play Sir Raderic and Amoretto, and reward these fiddlers?

I went every night to the opera, took a fiddler of disputed merit under my protection, became the head of a musical faction, and had sometimes concerts at my own house.

" "Do you think 'Billy the fiddler,' as you call him, is one of the Sons of Liberty?" "H-u-s-h!"

A chair was placed for Dan'l on top of this expansive board, which thus became a stage from whence he could overlook the room and the dancers, and then two of the remittance men tossed the old fiddler to his elevated place and commanded him to make ready.

Ben Jonson uses the word in "The Poetaster," act iii. sc. 4: "Come, we must have you turn fiddler again, slave; get a base violin at your back, and march in a tawny coat, with one sleeve, to Goose-fair; then you'll know us, you'll see us then, you will gulch, you will.

"You're out," says Dick; "not I," says Nick, "'Twas the fiddler play'd it wrong;" "'Tis true," says Hugh, and so says Sue,

" With this Stubby bowed low and retreated toward the door, which suddenly opened to admit old Dan'l the fiddler, who was thrust in so violently that his body collided with that of Stubby and nearly knocked him over.

And so, if you will watch carefully the fiddlers, you will notice that they always seem ready to run back to the land, where their forefathers lived, and then, as they regain their courage, they rush down, as if about to fight the waves.

We'll therefore discharge these fiddlers.

More than thirty years before, Puritanism had snuffed out its candles and driven its fiddlers to the streets.