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"Who will sing us a song?" said the master woodman as he threw a fresh log upon the fire. "Yes, a song! a song!" shouted some of the others. "Let us have a good old song that will help to keep us warm." "We can all be minstrels to-night," said the chief cook. "Suppose we each sing a song in turn. What say you?" "Agreed! agreed!" cried the others. "And the cook shall begin."
"Art thou he, then, whose fame has filled our ears, of whom minstrels sing, who with a band of stout followers defied the Moslem's rage in these forest fastnesses, before even Peter preached the word of God?" "Thou hast exaggerated my merits, but be they many, or as I would say few, I am he of whom they speak."
A rumour there is that she walketh, and it may be so; yet in the summer noon ye need not look to see her." Ralph said coldly: "Roger, let us be done with minstrels' tales; lead me to the place where the oath is to be sworn, for time presses."
I want to be manager of something way up like a railroad or a diamond trust or an automobile factory. Now here comes this little man from the tropics with just what I want, and he's offered me the job. "'What job? I asks. 'Is he going to revive the Georgia Minstrels or open a cigar store? "'He's no 'coon, says Denver.
So hospitable Aunt Ellen, considerably perturbed that so many of her guests had arrived in her absence an absence carefully planned by the Doctor betook herself to the masquerade, and the Christmas party began with bandits and minstrels and jesters and all sorts of queer folk flitting gaily about the house.
Pennant gives a minute account of the Eisteddfods or sessions of the Bards and minstrels, which were held in Wales for many centuries, long after the Druidical priesthood in its other departments became extinct. At these meetings none but Bards of merit were suffered to rehearse their pieces, and minstrels of skill to perform.
Besides this, their daughters and young married women gain a trifle as wandering minstrels, called Torioi, playing on the shamisen, a sort of banjo, and singing ballads. They never marry out of their own fraternity, but remain apart, a despised and shunned race.
And this, too, not only for so petty a gratification, but for one that rarely lasts above a London season. We allow the low-born author to be the lion this year; but we dub him a bore the next. We shut our doors upon his twice-told jests, and send for the Prague minstrels to sing to us after dinner instead."
Not in this do the wise find the true enjoyment of wealth, but in that they can indulge their own desires, and something bestow on one of the minstrels, and do good deeds to many of their kin, and to many another man; and always give altar-rites to the Gods, nor ever play the churlish host, but kindly entreat the guest at table, and speed him when he would be gone.
Daily deaths made the camp a scene of continued mourning, and all the minstrels that had come across the sea to amuse their victor countrymen, like the poet who went with Edward II. to Bannockburn to celebrate the conquest of the Scots, found their gay imaginings turned to a sorrowful reverse.
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