In the mean time the _King_ had returned to the stage, and the performance concluded without any music.

After this the manager will employ home talent when he wants airs on the bugle.
* * * * * I have been studying the horn to some extent myself.

Nothing is more delightful than to have sweet music at home in the evenings.

It lightens the burdens of care, it soothes the ruffled feelings, it exercises a refining influence upon the children, it calms the passions and elevates the soul.

A few months ago I thought that it might please my family if I learned to play upon the French horn.