WOOD NOTES WILD. 



105 



Being an hour late with their breakfast one morning, I 

 was received by the feathered supplicants with unusual 

 demonstrations. They crowded about me so closely I 

 could hardly step without treading on their toes. With 

 heads lifted much higher than one would think they 

 could be, and eyes shining, their tones and inflections 

 were exceedingly human. Like all birds, wild or tame, 

 hens employ, ascending and descending, the intervals of 

 our scale, except in cases as above described; they use 

 the half-step and whole-step, the major and minor thirds, 

 the fourth, fifth, and sixth, with a good sprinkling of 

 chromatics. In this instance every degree of the staff 

 was brought into requisition, the slide of a fourth upward 

 occuring oftenest. 



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ok, ok, ok, ik. 



The notes of one hen were all the same, and piano. 



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But the rooster's petition " led all the rest." Striding 

 about in the rear, an occasional brief command attesting 



