and his remark that

Handel must have been down in some of them foreign
cellars pretty much for to go and say the same thing
so many times over

is certainly not lacking in originality.


_Hymns and Hymn-Tunes_

There are many purists in church music who object to adaptations
of any kind, and we do not know what their feelings are on
reading the account of the meeting of the Brick Lane Branch of
the United Grand Junction Ebenezer Temperance Association. In
order to vary the proceedings Mr. Anthony Humm announced that

Brother Mordlin had adapted the beautiful words of
'Who hasn't heard of a Jolly Young Waterman' to the
tune of the Old Hundredth, which he would request them
to join in singing. (Great applause.) And so the song
commenced, the chairman giving out two lines at a time,
in proper orthodox fashion.

It was this air that Mr. Jerry's dog, as already related, ground
out of the barrel-organ, but, besides this particular melody,
we do not find that Dickens mentions any other hymn-tune. The
hymns referred to are rather more in number. In _The Wreck
of the Golden Mary_ Mrs. Atherfield sang Little Lucy to sleep
with the Evening Hymn. There is a veiled reference to Ken's