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Used to dance hornpipes in my young days, but gave up that sort of thing some time ago." "How unfortunate! Every one acts; it's all the fashion," began Miss Ellery, rolling up her blue eyes imploringly. "So I see; but I never cared much for theatricals, I like natural things better." "How unkind you are! I quite depended on you for that, since you wouldn't be a corsair."
The trouble arose over his batman, Harry Hobbs. Harry was a man who, in his youthful days, had been a diligent patron of the London music halls, and in consequence had become himself an amateur entertainer of very considerable ability. His sailor's hornpipes, Irish jigs, his old English North-country ballads and his coster songs were an unending joy to his comrades.
The pot that pot above everything threw him into transports of joy, culminating in a series of "hornpipes" and "cellar-flaps," wound up by a triumphant "six-eight breakdown." It was only noon as yet. Godfrey wished after the meal to get back at once to Dream Bay. He would never rest until the whole was in safety at Will Tree. Tartlet made no objection, and declared himself ready to start.
Meanwhile I devoted my spare moments to the construction of a flute, and, after two or three partial failures, succeeded in producing an instrument of very sweet tone and a sufficient range of notes to enable me to tootle the air of several of the most popular songs of the day, as well as a fairly full repertoire of jigs, hornpipes, and other dance music.
You've as splendid victuals and drink as at other parties, and even better. And it don't wear your legs to stumps in talking over a poor fellow's ways as it do to stand up in hornpipes." "Nine folks out of ten would own 'twas going too far to dance then, I suppose?" suggested Grandfer Cantle. "'Tis the only sort of party a staid man can feel safe at after the mug have been round a few times."
And had I lived when song was great, And legs of trees were limber, And ta'en my fiddle to the gate, And fiddled to the timber! "'Tis said he had a tuneful tongue, Such happy intonation, Wherever he sat down and sung He left a small plantation; Whenever in a lonely grove He set up his forlorn pipes, The gouty oak began to move And flounder into hornpipes."
Out came Maurice, and paddling around he picked up three birds, to the immense delight of Thad, who issued from the cabin at the sound of the reports, and of course executed one of his incomparable hornpipes on the deck at the prospect of another round of game for dinner.
Ned Twigger was in the very height of his glory, and he danced hornpipes, and balanced chairs on his chin, and straws on his nose, till the whole company, including the corporation, were in raptures of admiration at the brilliancy of his acquirements. Mr.
But I fancy a people who would give an "ordination ball" would not long sit still at a wedding; and by the year 1769, at a wedding in New London, ninety-two jigs, fifty contra-dances, forty-three minuets, and seventeen hornpipes were danced, and the party broke up at quarter of one in the morning at what time could it have begun?
You've as splendid victuals and drink as at other parties, and even better. And it don't wear your legs to stumps in talking over a poor fellow's ways as it do to stand up in hornpipes." "Nine folks out of ten would own 'twas going too far to dance then, I suppose?" suggested Grandfer Cantle. "'Tis the only sort of party a staid man can feel safe at after the mug have been round a few times."
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