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WOOD NOTES WILD. 



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Had the second form been given in the key of the first, 

 thus, — 



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it would have seemed more natural ; but as I was correct 

 in both instances, I reasoned that the rooster might be. 

 I finally settled it that the General's first form was his 

 morning in-door salute, and that the second was his out- 

 of-doors, " every-day " song ; furthermore, that he or some 

 of his ancestry had stolen his text from a strain in " The 

 Seven Sleepers," which in my memory runs — 



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Oh, 



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However, a waggish composer offset this theft when he 

 caught the jubilant cackle of a hen as she broke from her 

 nest, heart and throat full of joyous melody, snatched it 

 bodily, I say, clapped it to paper, and made " Old Dan 

 Tucker : " — 



cut, cut, cut, ker dart cut, cut ker dart, 



