" I heard her beating a tattoo on Veronica's door next.

And so, admiring the roses and the pomegranates, the lantanas and the honeysuckles, or chatting with some dusky fellow-pilgrim, I mounted the hill to the city, and likely as not saw before me a red-headed woodpecker sitting on the roof of the State House, calling attention to his patriotic selfin his tri-colored dressby occasional vigorous tattoos on the tinned ridgepole.

I love to see the bur-khi-is Sweep stately o'er the mossy rocks; And tsabi in a wild like this, Hear the tattoo of red woodchucks.

And my heart began to perform strange tattoos on my ribs I was going to the house of a gentleman who did not know of my existence, to see a girl who was his guest, to whom I had never, as the conventions go, been presented.

Bobbles ran into the outstretched fist with great enthusiasm at first, but after a moment's daze he dodged round and under that arm and devoted himself to playing a tattoo on Jaynes' solar plexus.