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Vaguely perturbing, these negro melodies and thrummings; their reiteration of monotony awakens tremulous echoes on the human diaphragm and stirs up hazy, primeval mischiefs.
But mind ye, take that 'ere last stitch, now; if ye don't, there's no tellin' the consekenses." As the mate and his man departed, I stole up to Thrummings. "Don't do it don't do it, now, Thrummings depend on it, it's wrong!"
When every man had filled his glass, his Worship stood up and proposed a toast. It was, of course, "Our gracious Sovereign," or words to that effect; and immediately a band of musicians, whose preliminary footings and thrummings I had already heard behind me, struck up "God save the Queen," and the whole company rose with one impulse to assist in singing that famous national anthem.
"You ain't long for the sarvice. I wish I could give you some o' the blood in my veins, old man!" "Ye ain't got ne'er a teaspoonful to spare," said Thrummings. "It will go hard, and I wouldn't want to do it; but I'm afeard I'll have the sewing on ye up afore long!" "Sew me up? Me dead and you alive, old man?" shrieked Ringrope.
A hundred of the most musical tree-frogs shut up in a piano might give a feeble notion of the tunes and thrummings assembled in this shop. It was the same day or night, and the power of Fithian Minuit over time-keepers was nearly miraculous. He appeared to be able to smile an old watch into action.
"Drop your 'palm, then and let Thrummings take it; follow me the foot of the main-sail wants mending must do it afore a breeze springs up. D'ye hear, old chap! I say, drop your palm, and follow me." At the reiterated command of his superior, Ringrope rose, and, turning to his comrade, said, "I take it all back, Thrummings, and I'm sorry for it, too.
"Well, I've he'rd the parson of the old Independence say as how old age was deceitful; but I never seed it so true afore this blessed night. I'm sorry for ye, old man to see you so innocent-like, and Death all the while turning in and out with you in your hammock, for all the world like a hammock-mate." "You lie! old man," cried Thrummings, shaking with rage.
The last remark reminded me of a superstitious custom generally practised by most sea-undertakers upon these occasions. I resolved that, if I could help it, it should not take place upon the remains of Shenly. "Thrummings," said I, advancing to the last speaker, "you are right. That last thing you do to the canvas is the very reason, be sure of it, that brings the ghosts after you, as you say.
Throwing a /penseroso/ air into his thin cheeks, our Don then began a few preliminary thrummings, which set my teeth on edge, and made Tarleton put both hands to his ears.
Occasionally the older people would pick up their instruments bagpipes of sheepskin, small drums and gourd-like mandolines and draw from them strange dronings, gurglings, thrummings, twangings; soon a group of youngsters would rise gravely from the ground and, without any preconcerted signal, begin to move in a dance a formal and intricate measure, such as had never yet been witnessed on Nepenthe.
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