442 CHAMOIS HUNTING. 



The following is the melody to which the Schnadahiipfl is 



Jodler. 



Tn Wales, according to Mr. W. Leathart, a similar kind of song, 

 called " Pennillion," still affords a pleasant pastime. " They ori- 

 ginated probably in the Bardism of the ancient Britons, and were 

 chanted to the harp from the earliest recorded period. This 

 Pennillion consists in singing stanzas, either attached or detached, 

 of various lengths and metre, to any tune which the harper may 

 play ; for it is irregular, and in fact not allowable, for any par- 

 ticular one to be chosen. Two, three, or four bars having been 

 played, the singer takes it up, and this is clone according as the 

 Pennil, or stanza, may suit ; lie must end precisely with the strain, 

 and he therefore commences in any part he may please. To the 

 stranger it has the appearance of beginning in the middle of a line 

 or verse, but which is not the case. Different tunes require a 

 different number of verses to complete it ; sometimes only one. 



