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Apart from his failing he was a valuable asset to the sing-song party; but, unhappily, it required all the resources and ingenuity of its promoters to keep Private Mason sober on the night of an entertainment. When and how he acquired the wherewithal to wreck the high hopes of the reigning stage manager was a mystery known to him alone.
Lowering his voice and swaying to and fro, the peasant declaimed in a sing-song with a remarkably intense expression of anguish: "Alas, to foreign lands I must depart."
He looked completely insignificant. Ursula and Gudrun, both very unused, were mostly silent, listening to the slow, rhapsodic sing-song of Hermione, or the verbal sallies of Sir Joshua, or the prattle of Fraulein, or the responses of the other two women.
On Saturday, August 29th, 1914, our Battalion paraded early in the morning and bade farewell to Long Branch Camp. The night before we left we had a "sing-song" or concert. Arrangements had been made for us to take cars for Toronto in the morning and rendezvous at the Armories during the noon-hour, when the men would be allowed to see their friends or sweethearts.
"Ah! you are better, my child, I see..." said that quaint, tremulous voice again, with its soft sing-song accent, "but you must not be so venturesome, you know. The physician said that you had received a cruel blow. The brain has been rudely shaken... and you must lie quite still all to-day, or your poor little head will begin to ache again."
She remained by the door until the walls of the city swallowed the bobbing lantern. Then she went into the office. "What is a sing-song girl?" she asked. The manager twisted his moustache. "The same as a Japanese geisha girl." "And what is a geisha girl?" Not to have heard of the geisha! It was as if she had asked: "What is Paris?"
But from the slaves' quarters came the unmistakable sing-song of the Christian vine-yard dance and hymn, which the labourers sung together with rhythmic beating of hands and customary cries, and through that din arose from time to time the loud bass of one especially chosen to respond. The master sent out word to them in secret to conduct their festival less noisily and with closed doors.
"For" Kim translated into the vernacular the clinching sentences he had heard in the dressing-room at Umballa "For," says He, "we should have done this long ago. It is not war it is a chastisement. Snff!" 'Enough. I believe. I have seen Him thus in the smoke of battles. Seen and heard. It is He! 'I saw no smoke' Kim's voice shifted to the rapt sing-song of the wayside fortune-teller.
Conscience, did you say? No rubbish, if you please. You are too poor to support a conscience. You are hungry; you have come on important business the first thing needful. But you shall hold your head askew, and set your words to a sing-song. You won't! What? Well then, I won't go a step farther. Do you hear that?
This was the favoured tavern, sacred to the evening orgies of Mr. Lowten and his companions, and by ordinary people would be designated a public-house. The object of Mr. Pickwick's visit was to discover Mr. Lowten, and on enquiry, found him presiding over a sing-song and actually engaged in obliging with a comic song at the moment. After a brief interview with that worthy, Mr.
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