CHAPTER V. 



l\Iy illusic Lessons. 



Animals are affected more by music than by any other agency. 

 The dirge is a sad and solemn thing to a horse. Funerals are 

 alwajs associated with them, in the mind of the horse. And when 

 the band plays lively circus music I always feel like dancing. Some 

 times this happy spirit is mistaken for fractiousness and skittish- 

 ness, because some poor colts who have never seen the world, 

 especially on St. Patrick's Day and the Fourth of July, become 

 alarmed and act up foolish like. I am very fond of music and can 

 play some. I am making progress and may in time become an 

 expert on certain instruments. When my Mistress Myrtle saw 

 how fond I was of music she began to play everything she could 

 think of to please me. Oh, how I did enjoy the sweet strains 

 from her piano. I never imagined that such pretty sounds could 

 be made. When my Master saw how fond I was of music he 

 bought me a set of alluminum chimes. When I had smelled them 

 out to find no danger in them. Master rubbed my nose against 

 the side of each chime in the chromatic scale and the sounds were 

 so pleasing that I wanted to hear them all the time. Every time 

 I struck a chime Mistress Myrtle struck the same note on her 

 piano and they pro- 

 nounced the name of 

 the note. I became 

 an adept at match- 

 ing tones and can 

 now duplicate the 

 notes on my chimes, 

 after hearing the 

 piano, better than 

 Master can. After a 

 great deal of pa- 

 tience and hard prac- 

 tice I could play any 

 simple tune. I sur- 



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Playing on tlie Chimes 



