up and stood,
if "Hallelujah" occurred, as it often did in anthems.

There were eight or ten singers, and they had a bassoon, a flute, and a
clarionet. They used to sing before the Communion Service in the
morning, after the Second Lesson in the afternoon, and before each
Sermon. Master Oxford had a good voice, and was wanted in the choir, so
as soon as the General Thanksgiving began, he started off from his seat,
and might be heard going the length of the nave, climbing the stairs, and
crossing the outer gallery. Sometimes he took his long stick with him,
and gave a good stripe across the straw bonnet of any particularly
naughty child. In the gallery he proclaimed--"Let us sing to the praise
and glory of God in the Psalm," then giving the first line.

The Psalms were always from the New or Old Versions. A slate with the
number in chalk was also hung out--23 O.V., 112 N.V., as the case might
be. About four verses of each were sung, the last lines over and over
again, some very oddly divided. For instance--

"Shall fix the place where we must dwell,
The pride of Jacob, His delight,"

was sung thus:--

"The pride of Ja--the pride of Ja--the pride of Ja--" (at least three
times before the line was ended).

But rough as these were, some of these Psalms were very dear to us all,
specially the old twenty-third:--

"My Shepherd is the living Lord,
Nothing, therefore, I need,
In pastures fair, by pleasant streams
He setteth me to feed.

He shall convert and glad my soul,
And bring my soul in frame
To walk in paths of holiness,
For His most Holy Name.

I pass the gloomy vale of death,
From fear and danger free;
For there His guiding rod and staff
Defend and comfort me."

Another much-loved one was the 121st:--

"To Zion's hill I lift my eyes,
From thence expecting aid,
From Zion's hill and Zion's God,
Who heaven and earth hath made.

Sheltered beneath the Almighty's wings,
Thou shall securely rest,
Where neither sun nor moon shall thee
By day nor night molest.

Then thou, my soul, in safety rest,
Thy Guardian will not sleep,
His watchful care, that Israel guards,
Shall Israel's monarch keep.

At home, abroad, in peace or war,
Thy God shall thee defend,
Conduct thee through life's pilgrimage,
Safe to thy journey's end."

Will the sight of these lines bring