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The last trumpet sounded tantara! tantara! its shrill call rang over the wide plains, and the wide plains gave back no answer. Again! but when its notes died away, there was only a mournful, an awful silence. "Farewell, my child," said the Prince, bulkily lifting himself into his battle-saddle. "Remember the dagger. Hark! the trumpet sounds for the third time. Open, warders!
The wild birds sing, The dun deer fling, The forest aisles with music ring! Tantara, tantara, tantara! "Then ride along, ride along, Stout and strong! Farewell to grief and care; With a rollicking cheer For the high dun deer And a life in the open air! Tantara, the hunt is up, lads; Tantara, the bugles bray! Tantara, tantara, tantara, Hio, hark away!"
Their terror was not lessened by the growing volume of shouts outside the house, and by the rub-a-dub-dub of the drums, and the tantara of the bugles, as the "To arms" was sounded along the village street.
Under shadow of enforcing her to tell how much money she had of his prentice so to bee trayned to his cellar, hee stript her, and scourgd her from top to toe tantara. Day by day hee disgested his meate with leading her the measures. A diamond Delphinicall drye leachour it was. The ballet of the whipper of late dayes here in England, was but a scoffe in comparison of him.
And then came the beginning of the real fun, when Mary turned up at Brownberry after dark one night in a proper tantara, with her eyes rolling and her bosom heaving like the waves of the sea. She'd come over Dart, by the stepping stones a tricky road for an old woman even by daylight, but a fair marvel at night. "God's my judge!" began Mary, dropping in the chair by the fire.
Why, Master Fred, sir, you know that bit under the north wall, where the mistress's herbs and simples grow!" "Yes." "Well, sir, I shan't know that bit again. That there patch in partic'lar 'll be one big touzle o' weeds, and " Tantara, tantara, tantara!
"Ground!" exclaimed Hogarth, "there is no ground in the case, my lord, it is all sea. The red you perceive is the Red Sea. Pharoah and his host are drowned as you desired, and cannot be made objects of sight, for the sea covers them all." Tantara, the celebrated landscape painter, was a man of ready wit, but he once met his match.
A braave tantara 'mongst the fam'ly, I tell 'e. Not a stiver all ate up in a 'nuity, an' her artful limb! just died on the last penny o' the quarter's payment. An' Lezzard left at the work'us door poor auld zawk! An' him fourscore an' never been eggicated an' never larned nothin'!" "To think it might have been your trouble, Blee!" "That's it, that's it! That's what I be full of!
Paul's, raising it off the earth with as much facility as you would a decanter of claret. And when once risen up it had the appearance of a quart bottle. Colossus instantly, with his teeth, cracked off the superior part of the cupola, and then applying his lips to the instrument, began to sound it like a trumpet. 'Twas martial beyond description tantara! tara! ta!
The cymbals clashed, the horns screamed, and the kettle-drum emitted its deep awful note, till the old rock echoed again, and the hanging terraces of the town rang with the stirring noise: "Dub-a-dub, dub-a-dub thus go the drums, Tantara, tantara, the Englishman comes." O England! long, long may it be ere the sun of thy glory sink beneath the wave of darkness!
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