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"Why, as for that," quoth Little John, grinning, "mayhap he hath lent me aid to learn a ditty or so." "Then, prythee, let us hear how he hath taught thee," quoth the Tinker. At this Little John cleared his throat and, after a word or two about a certain hoarseness that troubled him, sang thus: "Ah, pretty, pretty maid, whither dost thou go?
To the faint sound of the instrument, which was rather a large one, and which he had propped on the pillow by his side, he was singing, or rather murmuring a long ditty. Twice, thrice, four times he repeated it in the same way.
"I never thought to ask, I never knew; But, in my simple ignorance, suppose The self-same Power that brought me here brought you." Almost at the very top of Mount Clinton I was saluted by the familiar ditty of the Nashville warbler. I could hardly believe my ears; but there was no mistake, for the bird soon appeared in plain sight.
In a college-student's ditty is a strain conveying some hint of such parley: "We'll sing to-night with hearts as light And joys as gay and fleeting As the bubbles that swim on the beaker's brim And break on the lips at meeting." The bubbles that break on the lips are past mending. The effervescence and sparkle of wine can only be known as the glass is filled.
"It reminds me of the commencement of a laughable extempore ditty," said I to my young friend, A. C , who was staying with me, "composed by my husband, during the first very cold night we spent in Canada" Oh, the cold of Canada nobody knows, The fire burns our shoes without warming our toes; Oh, dear, what shall we do?
As he entered his hall he heard the voice of Ida uplifted in a rollicking ditty, and a very strong smell of tobacco was borne to his nostrils. He threw open the dining-room door, and stood aghast at the scene which met his eyes.
They went at each other like two bulldogs that have nursed a grudge for a year. "Now, I want to know what it means, Drew. I heard Ruth told me of the little run-in you had with Ditty the day you first met my daughter on the Jones Lane pier," pursued Captain Hamilton. "Ruth was carrying a letter to Captain Peters for me.
"Opossums and raccoons are well-known denizens of trees, and both furnish famous country sports, especially in the South. ''Possum up de gum-tree, cooney in de hollow, is a line from a negro ditty that touches a deep chord in the African heart. The former is found not infrequently in this region, but the Hudson seems to be the eastern boundary of its habitat."
Everything brought them as it were before my eyes, and as the door of the dining-room opened I almost expected to hear the feeble voice of Master Silence quavering forth his favorite ditty: "'Tis merry in hall, when beards wag all, And welcome merry Shrove-tide!"
We were working away at the canoe: the boys keeping the fire up; the rest of us heating the irons and burning out the inside; Jack amusing himself and us by singing a sea-song to the tune of "Come, cheer up, my lads;" while Chickango was indulging himself in shouting a native ditty of which we could neither make out the words nor very clearly the tune, it had reference, I fancy, to our canoe-building, to which he was wishing all manner of success.
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