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P A R T III.

Readings with Accompaniments of Music.

[The words ill tins Fart printed iti italics iire to be sung by the ruudur, or tin jissist*
auL, to the accompanying hjtisic. or to other selections that may be preferred.]

SANDY'S ROMANCE.

[Written estpressly for this Volume.]

O N E summer flay a country youth, arrayed in kilt: and plaid.
Known well among his neighbors as an honest, manly lad,
Was sauntering among the fields, as one might say, by cha^ce^
And met with an adventure that was tinctured with romance-

To till appearance Sandy— for by this name was he know n- ■
To his present tine proportions had industriously grown
Without once isitimating, by a single look or word,
That he knew there tvas a thing like love— of which you mutt ha-'/e
heard,

f\ toft and hrizv lustre filled the cloudless summer sky,
And bird to bird within its nest was chirping on the sly,
’When he began to wonder, as he rambled on alone,
if ever he wo is Id have a mate and cottagc of his own.

Just then a maiden's merry voice rang out upon the air,
From one not f-n away he knew, but could not tell just where*.
And this sweet s n a tc h of music on the zephyrs seemed to dy -
I f a body meet a body cornin' tkra the rye.