Not that he had much of a voice, though he used to play 'Comin' thro' the Rye' oh the fiddle sometimes, until he got it going through him so much he couldn't draw a note.

"Dan'l said he be hanged if he'd come," announced Tim, with a grim appreciation of the humorous side of the situation; "so I hung him and brought him alongand his fiddle to boot.

He takes the fiddle off dresser, and turns to go.

"Six years ago," said he, "a man on the borders of Connecticut, sat night after night on a stool in a low tavern to scrape an old fiddle.

He puts fiddle on table and prepares to speak impressively.

" He laid his cheek down on his little fiddle,you don't know how Tommy loved that little fiddle,and struck up a gay, rollicking tune, "I care for nobody and nobody cares for me.

my advice is, to cote the words of Unkle EDWARD: "Hang up your fiddle and your bow, Lay down your shovel and the hoe.

There is also a good deal about his maternal ancestors, in a poem on Lachion-y-Gair, a mountain, where he spent part of his youth, and might have learned that pibroach is not a bagpipe, any more than a duet means a fiddle.

His fingers are not long and drawn out to handle a fiddle, but his fist clunched with the habit of disputing.

He hummed a few bars of Gluck's "Paride ed Elenna," and paused, with the gesture of one holding a fiddle, on the verge of a reminiscence.

We wanted a fiddle dreadfully; but we were too poor to buy one; and we couldn't have got much time to play on't if we had had one, for our boss watched us as a weasel watches mice.

He sees his beloved fiddle, and his no less beloved feline friend, in loving conjunction; he bursts out rapturously with impetuous joy: "Hey! diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle!

He carries fiddle.

He was too far away to hear the fiddles.

"And ne'er forget will I," murmured the little fiddle.

There is Coleridge, at his will can conjure up icy domes, and pleasure-houses for Kubla Khan, and Abyssinian maids, and songs of Abara, and caverns, Where Alph, the sacred river, runs, to solace his night solitudeswhen I cannot muster a fiddle.

I offered the fiddle to one of them.

They would then call on any man who owned a fiddle and spend the evening, with interludes of singing and story-telling, in dancingan amusement they considered as only below hunting.

With that to cheer us we played our tragedy of "The Broken Heart" very merrily, and after that, changing our dresses in a twinkling, Jack Dawson, disguised as a wild man, and Moll as a wood nymph, came on to the stage to dance a pastoral, whilst I, in the fashion of a satyr, stood on one side plying the fiddle to their footing.

a viol da Gamba, others pronounced it a fiddle.

You've ruined old Eleazar's fiddle, though, taking that E string!

She sold the fiddles to buy him luxuries.

"And she's a' the world to me, And for bonnie Annie Laurie I'd lay me down and dee," sang the little fiddle, triumphantly.

But the stranger vouchsafed no answer, as he steadied the fiddle with his bearded chin and turned the pegs with his left hand, adjusting the strings.

Who stops the fiddles?