, but he couldn't recall them at the moment,
so he sang the first verse seven times.

There is no record as to what the comic duets were that Sam
Weller and Bob Sawyer sang in the dickey of the coach that was
taking the party to Birmingham, and this suggests what a number
of singers of all kinds are referred to, though no mention is
made of their songs. What was Little Nell's repertoire? It must
have been an extensive one according to the man in the boat
(_O.C.S._ 43).

'You've got a very pretty voice' ... said this
gentleman ... 'Let me hear a song this minute.'

'I don't think I know one, sir,' returned Nell.

'You know forty-seven songs,' said the man, with
a gravity which admitted of no altercation on the
subject. 'Forty-seven's your number.'

And so the poor little maid had to keep her rough
companions in good humour all through the night.

Then Tiny Tim had a song about a lost child travelling in the
snow; the miner sang a Christmas song--'it had been a very
old song when he was a boy,' while the man in the lighthouse
(_C.C._) consoled himself in his solitude with a 'sturdy'
ditty. What was John Browdie's north-country song? (_N.N._).
All we are told is that he took some time to consider the words,
in which operation his wife assisted him, and then

began to roar a meek sentiment (supposed to be uttered
by a gentle swain fast pining away with love and
despair) in a voice of thunder.

The Miss Pecksniffs used to come singing into the room, but
their songs are unrecorded, as well as those that Florence
Dombey used to sing to Paul, to his great delight. What was
the song Miss Mills sang to David Copperfield and Dora

about the slumbering echoes in the cavern of Memory;
as if she was a hundred years old.

When we first meet Mark Tapley he is singing merrily, and there
are dozens of others who sing either for their own delight
or to please others. Even old Fips, of Austin Friars, the
dry-as-dust lawyer, sang songs to the delight of the company
gathered round the festive board in Martin Chuzzlewit's rooms in
the Temple. Truly Dickens must have loved music greatly himself
to have distributed such a love of it amongst his characters.

It is not to be expected that Sampson Brass would be musical,
and we are not surprised when on an occasion already referred
to we find him

humming in a voice that was anything but musical certain
vocal snatches w