MAMMALS OF MINNESOTA. 



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Hespie's Wheel Song. With unconscious skill she would work 

 it out in wonderful variety. Instead of the first measure, she 

 would sometimes open with the second one and then follow it 

 with the first. Or she might start with the third, following 

 with the second or first, just as fancy seemed to dictate. Then 

 she had her whims as to the amount of repetition of each bar, 

 that is to say, she would double or even triplicate a measure 

 when the notion took her. In this regard time was quite 

 ignored. Indeed, whatever may have been the Hesperomys' 

 canon of musical procedure or propriety, we could not but re- 

 gard it as arbitrary, or beyond our comprehension. Still, it 

 must be admitted that this litile performer possessed precis- 

 sion, delicacy and scope of excution. 

 NO. I. THE WHEEL SONG. 



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NO. 2 THE GRAND ROLE. 



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"She had one role, which although the notation is simpler 

 than that of the Wheel Song, yet I think, to her, its execution 

 was more difficult. It is certain that she wa$ far more chary of 

 its performance, and to me its effect seemed more impressive. 

 I have, on account of its inf requency, distinguished it as ' The 

 Grand Role.' 



