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Amongst these the pheasant for its oriental plumage and the cockatoo for its querulous voice are remarkable as the largest. A gay concert is given in honour of the dawning and the dying day but long before the birds of prey have unfolded their wings and soar, like phantoms, through the darkness, the pretty carol-singers hush their warblings and hide themselves from the horrors of the night.
No Lieutenant, no Jimmy, and no birthstone ring, and no prospect of ever having any. But I don't care much. The candy is a success and Jack is going to have his bloodstone fob." With her arms piled full of boxes, she started down to her room. As she opened the door a burst of music came floating out from the gymnasium where the carol-singers were practising for the yearly service.
She gave tips to bell-ringers and carol-singers, and entertained Sunday-school children and 'mothers' in the laundry. These anniversaries, she was wont to remark conscientiously, mitigating the enjoyment of placing handsome presents beside her guests' breakfast plates these anniversaries were full of sadness.
The Christmas after taking up his abode herein he was sitting in the chimney corner by himself, when he heard faint notes in the distance, and soon a melody burst forth immediately outside his own window, it came from the carol-singers, as usual; and though many of the old hands, Ezra and Lot included, had gone to their rest, the same old carols were still played out of the same old books.
There were always days of silence after a beating, and that was more markedly the case now when it was a week of holidays and no Parlow to go to. Peter did not mind the silence it was perhaps safer and so long as he was home by six o'clock he could spend the day where he pleased. He asked Mrs. Trussit about the carol-singers.
At that moment, even as the crackers were being handed round, the sound of the carol-singers was heard from outside, and Lucia had to wince, as "Good King Wenceslas" looked out. "That's the small red-haired boy who nearly deafens me in church," she whispered to Georgie. "Don't you hope his voice will crack soon?"
"You'll come up in the evening to hear the carol-singers. There'll be a cup of mead ready for you, and for your people, too, if they will come." "Thank ye, Sir Baldwin; we'll come," said several voices, and the pilot's crew hurried down to their boat. The pilot vessel made several tacks along shore before stretching out to sea.
This one was a new carol to her. She did not know the words, but to the swinging measures other words fitted themselves; some lines which she had read that morning in a magazine. She sang them softly in time with the carol-singers as she went on down the stairs: "For should he come not by the road, and come not by the hill And come not by the far sea way, yet come he surely will.
The Sidlinch men had been so deeply engrossed in their task that they had not noticed the lanterns of the Chalk-Newton choir till now. 'What be you the Newton carol-singers? returned the representatives of Sidlinch. 'Ay, sure. Can it be that it is old Sergeant Holway you've a-buried there? ''Tis so. You've heard about it, then?
As they were putting the final touches to their work the profound stillness of the night was suddenly broken by the voices of a band of carol-singers. The sound overwhelmed them with memories of other and happier times, and Nora stretched out her hands impulsively to Owen, who drew her close to his side.
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