FAMILY Fringillidz. 
So I knew everything was all right down there and did . 
not take the trouble to go and see! Nonsense,—ail this, 
every one will of coursesay! But what about that melody 
in both the major and minor keys! That remains a re- 
markable fact. Again, how another little bird gave me 
a fragment of a Chopinlike mazourka, is worth the tell- 
ing. The motive was suggestive of something more 
which I never got; it ran thus: 
@ = 138 ay, 
Moderato, 
hup-it ‘rup-it rup-it, spits wig a gee! 
NV.B. Do not mind the syllables, they are not more nonsenskal 
than those employed by the ornithologist tor tunes!t 
and that was very aggravating, for it should have been 
rounded off thus: 
Ast ending 2nd. ending 
ne 
} 7 Aas J A ee 2) ee 
© aya ae eRe Gee el Oa Sel ea. ne |e Die SST I 
fy Jee es) | 
40.5 ae a = (Dc (| [FN 
The complete: melody will sound better; though less birdlike, 
if played an octave lower, 
But it never was rounded off, so I had to accept the fact 
that even the Song Sparrow does not always know how 
to finish a thing. 
There is a very good story told of Beethoven, I believe, 
which illustrates, in an amusing way, the annoyance of a 
‘‘tie-up” in music. The good old master had gone to 
bed and was tossing restlessly on his pillow, because his 
nephew Carl, downstairs, was repeatedly practising what 
@ musician would call a harmony in suspension ; some 
thing which goes like this: 
trs 
