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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 218

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I T 99 THE SOUND BEARERS. Thf, birds make great fun of human music. Doyou know why ? Because it has laws ! Now, theirmusic has laws, too, but the dear little things dontknow it. A robin friend of mine, sitting on awindow-sill lately, heard a music-master giving alittle girl her music lesson. He… … Semi-breve. Oroteliet. Semi-quaver, iDerni—semi—qoaaver I ladder, slowly or rapidly, according to orders. Mr.Semibreve, he says, is the slowest of them all. Nextcomes Mr. Mmim, who is only half as slow asSemibreve ; then Mr. Crotchet, who is half as slowas Minim; then little Quaver, who is half as…

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