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"Have you never heard singing before, child?" he asked wonderingly, when she had calmed down. "Yes, the spinning-song," sniffed Ditte. "Who sang it to you then?" "Granny " Ditte suddenly stopped and began to choke again, the thought of Granny was too much for her. "Granny used to sing it when she was spinning," she managed at last to say. "That must be a good old Granny, you have.
Well, Christian, now sing us a Low-German song." "I know but one song," said Christian, hesitatingly. "It is the spinning-song which my Frederica sang to me in the spinning-room." "Well, sing your spinning-song," said Blucher, looking at his pipe, which was going out. Christian cleared his throat, and sang: Spinn doch, spinn doch, min lutt lewes Dochting, Ick schenk Di ock'n poor hubsche Schoh!
Say not a word, else, aflame with wrath, he may shoot the rival from the wall!" Their chatter finally reaching her consciousness, Senta turns to them, annoyed. "Oh, keep still! Stop your silly laughing! Do you wish to make me really cross?" Further to tease her, they drown her voice with the refrain of their spinning-song: "Mutter and hum, good little wheel, cheerily, cheerily turn!
Secretly, she had her own ideas of what should come but not here; the place was accursed. Not exactly the prince in Granny's spinning-song, she was too old for that princes only married princesses. But many other things might happen besides that, given the opportunity. Ditte had no great pretensions, but "forward" was her motto. "It must be a place where there're plenty of people," said she.
He was a linguist, too, was Wärli, and could speak broken English in a most fascinating way, agreeable to every one, but intelligible only to himself. Well, he came whistling up the stairs when he heard Marie's blithe voice humming her favourite spinning-song. "Ei, Ei!" he said to himself; "Marie is in a good temper to-day. I will give her a call as I pass."
This begins in A minor with a well woven and well derived set of themes, and ends in a scherzo in A major with spinning-song characteristics. Between these two movements comes an intermezzo of strongly marked Scotch tone. This has been performed by the Kneisel Quartette. S.G. Pratt.
Do you love her?" Ditte did not answer, but the face she turned to him was like sunshine after the storm. "Will you sing us the spinning-song?" Ditte looked from the one to the other; the whole class gazed breathlessly at her; she felt something was expected of her.
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