It has also developed national and regional variants of its overall pattern.

A word recently introduced and now overworked, meaning a task, or performance in one's trade, or calling,doubtless a variant of stint, without that word's suggestion of allotment and limitation.

In the Papyrus of Hunefer we find a most interesting variant of this [Illustration: Horus, the son of Isis, leading the scribe Ani into the presence of Osiris, the god and judge of the dead; before the shrine of the god Am kneels in adoration and presents offerings.

Mus., No. 10,470, Plate 35] gives some interesting variants and may be described thus: 1.

Some of his sonnets, like the two just quoted, and those we can refer with certainty to the Cavalieri series, together with occasional compositions upon the deaths of Cecchino and Urbino, seem to come straight from the heart, and their manuscripts offer few variants to the editor.

All primitive people, or those less advanced in civilization or education, prefer the rag-time variants of the American negro or his imitators, to so-called good or classical music.