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Sitting in the swale; and listening to the swindle of the flail, as it sounds dub-a-dub on the corn, from the neighbouring barn.

But in this state of mummy and melancholy survival of itself, when the hollow skin reverberates to the drummer's wrist, and each dub-a-dub goes direct to a man's heart, and puts madness there, and that disposition of the pulses which we, in our big way of talking nickname Heroism: is there not something in the nature of a revenge upon the donkey's persecutors?

I am raising a regiment, you must know. Thornie shall be my sergeant-major, Dickon my riding-master, and Wilfred, with his deep dub-a-dub tones, that speak but three syllables at a time, my kettle-drummer." "And Rashleigh?" "Rashleigh shall be my scout-master." "And will you find no employment for me, most lovely colonel?"

D n him, fine that I should take orders from him! But never mind that all are friends now, and you and I, good neighbour, will charge abreast, as good neighbours should. See there! read read read and then boot and saddle in an instant. 'Hey for cavaliers ho for cavaliers, Pray for cavaliers, Dub-a-dub, dub-a-dub, Have at old Beelzebub, Oliver shakes in his bier!"

I am raising a regiment, you must know. Thornie shall be my sergeant-major, Dickon my riding-master, and Wilfred, with his deep dub-a-dub tones, that speak but three syllables at a time, my kettle-drummer." "And Rashleigh?" "Rashleigh shall be my scout-master." "And will you find no employment for me, most lovely colonel?"

And, as I watched, I suddenly saw a column of thick smoke shoot up above the tree tops at a point that I estimated to be not much more than two hundred yards from the mouth of the creek, and in the direction toward which the latter seemed to be trending, while at the same moment the blare of horns and the dub-a-dub- dub of tom-toms was borne faintly to our ears by the fitful breeze.

For the dub-a-dub rattling of the drums, with the soft noise of the gravel which murmuring disputed us our way, and the merry cheers and huzzas of the sailors, made an harmony almost as good as that of the heavenly bodies when they roll and are whirled round their spheres, which rattling of the celestial wheels Plato said he heard some nights in his sleep.

Then they took horse again with the retinue riding to the right and left and fared forward till they came to the river banks; when the troops alighted and pitched their tents and pavilions and standards to the blare of trump and the piping of fife and the dub-a-dub of drum and tom-tom.

"Sitting in the swale; and listening to the swindle of the flail, as it sounds dub-a-dub on the corn, from the neighbouring barn." In requital for which I treated them with a song, not of Romanvile, but the song of "Sivory and the horse Grayman."

We took in fight manfully and brought away. And so we'll do with this one, my masters! We'll sink her, or we'll take her and send her against her own galleons and galleasses! 'Dub-a-dub, dub-a-dub, thus strike their drums, Tantara, tantara, the Englishman comes!" His great voice and great presence seized and held the attention of all.