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,