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"Go on, my girl," he said. "If you've got a voice like that, why don't you let somebody hear it?" Her plump ladyship arrived late that night, and her companions were dressed and waiting when she swept into the room like a bat with outstretched wings, crying: "Out o' the wy! Betty Bellman's coming! She's lyte."
Thy "Watchman's," thy bellman's verses, I do retort upon thee, thou libellous varlet, why, you cried the hours yourself, and who made you so proud? But I submit, to show my humility, most implicitly to your dogmas, I reject entirely the copy of verses you reject. At present I have not leisure to make verses, nor anything approaching to a fondness for the exercise.
Beasley and his son, as in shaky voices they endeavored to thank the Chester Boys. "That's all right, Lathrop," said Frank at length "turn about's fair play. You drove the aeroplane to Bellman's island you remember and saved us now, we'll save you and your father, if we can how long can you give us, Mr. Beasley?" he asked, briskly turning to the thoroughly humbled merchant.
His son left Thrums at the age of ten for the distant farm of Tirl, and did not return until the old bellman's death, twenty years afterwards; but the first remark he overheard on entering the kirkwynd was a conjecture flung across the street by a grey-haired crone, that he would be "little Snecky come to bury auld Snecky."
Though hitherto they had chaffed the Ordinary, they now listened to his exhortation with at least a semblance of respect; and though their last night upon earth might have been devoted to a joyous company, they did not withhold their ear from the Bellman's Chant.
And song alternates with enthusiastic orations, addressed to the crowd by improvised orators, teeming with quotations of well-known lines. It is an orgy of Bellman's verse, such as the Stockholmer specially delights in. Bellman's songs generally form a sequence, a continuous chain of lyrical romance. His Fredman's Epistles are a sort of epic cycle of lyrics.
"'Don't you hear my little bell Go chinking, chinking, chink? Please give me a little money To buy my Pope a drink. "The streets were filled with people, who tossed pennies into the bellman's hat. Everybody laughed to see the Pope lifting his hands and working his under jaw as if preaching, Byng rolling his goggle eyes, Nancy kicking with both legs, and the Devil wriggling his tail.
His son left Thrums at the age of ten for the distant farm of Tirl, and did not return until the old bellman's death, twenty years afterward; but the first remark he overheard on entering the kirk-wynd was a conjecture flung across the street by a gray-haired crone, that he would be "little Snecky come to bury auld Snecky."
His characters are drawn from the bacchanalian class described in Bellman's lyrics, but they are not sufficiently varied in their scope and sphere to create an actual Swedish drama. Kexel, the friend of the two last named, lived a gay and vagabond life, and is celebrated for his comedies.
A man entering could not see the face, and Lovel, whose eyes had been weakened by study, peered a second before he closed the door behind him. "I have come to you, Nick, as always when my mind is in tribulation." The speaker had a harsh voice, like a bellman's which has been ruined by shouting against crowds.
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