[9] Or, 'Mix it up and make it nice.'

[10] _The Public Life of Mr. Tulrumble_, 1837.




CHAPTER IV

VARIOUS INSTRUMENTS (continued)


Many musical instruments and terms are mentioned by way of
illustration. Blathers, the Bow Street officer (_O.T._),
plays carelessly with his handcuffs as if they were a pair of
castanets. Miss Miggs (_B.R._) clanks her pattens as if they
were a pair of cymbals. Mr. Bounderby (_H.T._), during his
conversation with Harthouse,

with his hat in his hand, gave a beat upon the crown
at every division of his sentences, as if it were
a tambourine;

and in the same work the electric wires rule 'a colossal strip
of music-paper out of the evening sky.'

Perhaps the most extraordinary comparison is that instituted
by Mrs. Lirriper in reference to her late husband.