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Two other of his peculiarities may perhaps be 

 also worth recording. One of these was his ex- 

 treme sensitiveness in point of "ear" for music. 

 If he were lying fast asleep in the drawing-room, 

 and two or three discords were (purposely) struck 

 on the piano, he would instantly jump up, and 

 express his horror of them by a dismal whine. 

 The other was his dislike to have anything float- 

 ing about in his "tea." I have seen him start 

 back and growl at a tea-twig (in nursery parlance 

 "stranger") which happened to come to the sur- 

 face whilst he was drinking it. 



