ON MELODY IN SPEECH. 

 The dog barks in a fifth or fourth : 



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The donkey in coarse voice brays in a perfect octave 



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The horse neighs in a descent on the chromatic scale : 



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and at night on the roof in the garden may howl over an extended 

 compass, and at times give cries like those of an infant. 



The hens, geese and ducks in a farmyard chatter in pleasing chorus, 

 and proud chanticleer crows piercing solos between, in the diminished 

 triad and seventh chord : 



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The birds in bushes and trees, in gardens and woods, sing most 

 beautiful tones in exact intervals, even in melodious chords and in 

 measui*ed time. In passing a garden in the southwest of London on 

 a summer's afternoon, I noted the following tones of different birds 

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