Distinguished Amateur Vocalist (both Serious and Comic). "I can't say you have a very appreciative Public up here! I never sang 'Vilikins and his Dinah' better—but Nobody laughed a bit!"
Horrid Boy. "Oh, but they did when you sang 'The Death of Nelson.' I saw them!"
THE INFANT PHENOMENON.
What will he play? Oh! young New Year,
Precocious power and baby skill
To Music's zealots are strangely dear;
The tiny fingers that thump and trill,
That sweep the keyboard with splendid speed,
Like rattling rain-drops, or fairy-feet,