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To either side of the road lay fields of wheat, of clover, of corn, banded and broken by shadowy forest. Massanutton loomed ahead. There was a wind blowing. Together with the sound of marching feet, the jingle of accoutrements, the striking of the horses' hoofs against loose stones, the heavy noise of the guns in the rear, it filled the night like the roar of a distant cataract.
At least so "Peerson" had said, and Dam had been made almost happy for a day. Memories ...! His first walk abroad from barracks, clad in the "walking-out" finery of shell-jacket and overalls, with the jingle of spurs and effort at the true Cavalry swagger, or rather the first attempt at a walk abroad, for the expedition had ended disastrously ere well begun.
The bell, however, had no sooner ceased to jingle, than they stopped short, and, turning round, stared at the master, as much as to say, "What are we to do now?" This was too much for the patience of the man of method, which my previous stupidity had already nearly exhausted.
Indulging in wild hilarity over the capture of the crestfallen whites, the Indians took a bell from one of the horses and, fastening it about Boone's neck, compelled him under the threat of brandished tomahawks to caper about and jingle the bell, jeering at him the while with the derisive query, uttered in broken English: "Steal horse, eh?"
Kathleen sat upon the former's knee. The rest of the children had been sent off to the huge playroom on the top floor, and their distant shrieks, muffled by the thicknesses of many doors and walls, came faintly down to the fireside. With the subdued, even refined jingle of the door-bell, the two Bingles straightened up in their chairs and looked into each other's eyes, suddenly apprehensive.
He opened two or three wrappers the portion of the letter formed the outside one, the others being blank white paper and there fell out, descending upon the table with a sharp jingle, a pair of gold bracelets, ornamented with pearls and turquoises, a superb coral necklace, and a diamond ring.
One of his feminine admirers, seemingly impressed by the dragoman's silk robes, polite attention, and general good humor, had left the following jingle on the record: Who guided us all about the show, Whether we wanted to go or no, And always pleased and made us go? Mahmoud. Who whipped the donkey when he fell And then the donkey boy as well, And dressed himself a howling swell? Mahmoud.
He leaned forward, looked me nearly in the face, and reached out one hand to the bell-rope. "See here, my fine fellow!" said he. "Do you see that bell-rope? Let me tell you, there's a boy waiting below: one jingle, and he goes to fetch the constable." "Do you tell me so?" said I. "Well, there's no accounting for tastes!
In the beginning is a brief wandering or flickering motive in furious pace of harp and strings, ending ever in a shriek of the high wood. Answering is a descending phrase mainly in the brass, that ends in a rapid jingle. There are various lesser motives, such as a minor scale of ascending thirds, and a group of crossing figures that seem a guise of the first motive.
They may talk of independence, says father, 'but Sam, I'll tell you what independence is, and he gave his hands a slap agin his trousers pocket, and made the gold eagles he won at the race all jingle agin 'THAT! says he, giving them another wipe with his fist, and winkin', as much as to say, do you hear that, my boy!
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