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the notes he repeated five times. It is 

 interesting to listen to a good singer like 

 this. It will be noticed that sometimes 

 he will strike a new variety of notes, and 

 immediately afterwards he stops. Perhaps 

 he is trying to remember these notes to 

 repeat them, but it is not often that they 

 are repeated. If he is specially pleased 

 with a bar of his song, he will repeat it 

 several times. Most of his bars were sung 

 three times, but there was one glorious 

 combination of notes that he often re- 

 peated five times. He began to sing 

 from that high perch at the beginning 

 of April, and for over three months he 

 kept it up, giving out such music to that 

 little English village, that if it had been 

 in a town thousands would have flocked 

 to hear him, yet here no one took much 

 notice of him. He was just part of the 

 old village, and we listened to his song 

 as we did to the clanging of the lock 

 gates, the rush of water as the locks 



