440 CHAMOIS HUNTING. 



14 



.And a blossom don't grow- 

 On a dry wither' d stump ; 



And you can't sing a song 

 If your heart's a dead lump. 



15. 



A bore will not often 



Do wonders, I ween ; 

 Just in wild dashing waters 



The rainbow is seen. 



16. 



A mind that is happy 



Is a sunshiny day ; 

 Around all is brightness, 



Look wherever you may. 



17. 



And a mind not contented 



Is rain, fog, and haze; 

 You see nothing pleasing 



Wherever you gaze. 



With the exception of the first six verses, the "Schnadahupfln" 

 are not taken in the order observed in the original ; yet in the 

 selection I have endeavoured to make choice of such as, when 

 strung together, would follow each other in the proper order, and 

 have been anxious to give those in which the character of these 

 songs was most decidedly marked. The attentive reader will 

 certainly have observed that in No. 6 the singer has seized on the 

 " flower " mentioned in the preceding verse, as a subject on which 

 to form his stanza ; and having introduced something about a 

 kiss, he who follows weaves it, as it were, into his verse, of which 

 he makes it the subject. Nos. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13 do not so 

 visibly spring one from the other, though the theme is still the 

 same in each. Nos. 14, 15, 1 6, and 17 refer again to one and 

 the same subject, — the blessing of a happy and contented dispo- 

 sition. The following are strung together at random, taken like 

 the rest from Eobell's book of " Schnadahupfln." 

 A tree is not an emperor, 



Yet has it a crown, 

 And the birds and gold- chafers 



The jewels thereon. 



