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So I held it on my lap going in by train from Lexington, where Blakey lived, and when I got out at the old Lowell Depot North Station, now and got into the little tinkle-tankle horse-car that took me up to where I was to get the Back Bay car Those were the prehistoric times before trolleys, and there were odds in horse-cars. We considered the blue-painted Back Bay cars very swell.
The others were near. She could hear the tinkle-tankle of the Piper's pipes, the scuff of Puffy's paws, the labored breathing of the little old gentleman as he trudged, the heavy tramp, tramp of the Policeman. She made her bare feet travel as fast as she could, and kept her look steadily ahead on the dim stars.
"All England is singing it and a good thing, too," she made answer; and then she said, with some emphasis: "I am sure no one rejoices more than myself at the great popularity of 'The Squire's Daughter. I am very glad to see that a comedy-opera may be based on the best traditions of English music; and I hope we shall have a great deal less of the Offenbach tinkle-tankle."
At first Jimmie thought he was near a church, but just then the bell rang differently. This time it went: "Tinkle-tankle! Tinkle-tankle! Tinkle-tank " just like that. "Why!" exclaimed Jimmie. "I wonder what that can be?" Then he went on a little farther, and he came out of the deep, dark dingle-dell, and he heard the bell more plainly still.
Tilley's whole estate, except a straggling pasture that tilted on edge up the steep hillside beyond the house and road. I could hear the tinkle-tankle of a cow-bell somewhere among the spruces by which the pasture was being walked over and forested from every side; it was likely to be called the wood lot before long, but the field was unmolested.
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