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Among the children of the Italian families in the albergo was Silvio, a boy of ten or twelve. He knew a little English and was very fond of poetry. He could repeat, "How doth the little buzzy bee." The poem which pleased him best, however, was: Hey diddle diddle, The Cat and the Fiddle, The Cow jumped over the Moon. They had nothing, he said, in Italian literature so good as this.
On this I told him of the young lady of Harrow who would go to church in a barrow, and plied him with whatever rhyming nonsense I could call to mind, but it was no use; all of these things had an element of reality that robbed them of half their charm, whereas "Hey diddle diddle" had nothing in it that could conceivably concern him. So again it is with the things that gall us most.
There is one way to give novelty: to depend for success on the interest of a well-contrived story. "Liberty's in every blow; Let us do or die!" Poor Rob Burns! to tack thy fine strains of sublime patriotism! Better take Tristram Shandy's vein. Hand me my cap and bells there. So now, I am equipped. I open my raree-show with Ma'am, will you walk in, and fal de ral diddle?
Now as he sat thus, plunged in thought, he heard the voice of one who approached intoning a familiar chant, or refrain, the voice was harsh, albeit not unmusical, and the words of the chant were these: "When I am dead, diddle diddle, as well may hap, Bury me deep, diddle diddle, under the tap, Under the tap, diddle diddle, I'll tell you "
Now the words of the chant were these: "When I am dead, diddle, diddle, as well may hap, Bury me deep, diddle, diddle, under the tap, Under the tap, diddle, diddle, I'll tell you why, That I may drink, diddle, diddle, when I am dry." Hereupon, Bellew rose, and crossing to the open casement leaned out into the golden freshness of the morning.
"May I go along?" asked the funny bug. And he stood right up on his head. "Why yes," I told him, "come along," Tu ri lum diddle day. "The weather is certainly fine just now," Fum lum dum skiddle fay. But the grasshopper fell in a deep, dark bog, And I pulled him out on a sunken log, And then came along a bad, savage dog, And we both ran away." "Oh, ho!
One slight remark was entirely lost on someone else, and Miss Liz offered more remote possibilities than before. After the situation recommenced its torture, rather wearily she said to her plate: "Hey, diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, the cow jumped over the moon."
Dodge, who finding his popularity a little on the wane, had joined the meeting himself, a few weeks before, and who did not fail to manifest the zeal of a new convert. "Dances!" repeated Mrs. Abbott, in holy horror. "Real fi diddle de di!" echoed Captain Truck. "Just so," put in the commodore; "I have seen it with my own eyes. But, Mrs. Abbott, I feel bound to tell you that your own daughter "
Jog then drove on a few paces, and turned up a lane to the left, whose finger-post directed the road 'to Tollarton. He seemed less disconcerted than Sponge, who kept inwardly anathematizing, not only 'Obin and Ichard, but 'Diddle, diddle, doubt' 'Bah, bah, black sheep' the whole tribe of nursery ballads, in short.
"Diddle, diddle, diddle, diddle," said he, putting the child on one knee and working away with it as though he were turning a knife-grinder's wheel with his foot. "Mamma, Mamma," said Julia crossly, "I don't want to be diddle diddled. Let me go, you naughty old man, you." Poor Mr. Thorne put the child down quietly on the ground and drew back his chair; Mr.
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