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THE COUNTRY BOY 



a box of apples for lunch. The day was 

 dark and cloudy. In front of one shop Uncle 

 Jake brought a butcher, who he said had 

 bought more cattle than any of the rest, and 



he wanted us to play for this man, number 

 eighteen in the new book. Eighteen in the 

 new book was the one piece of classical music 

 which we bought when we got the uniforms. 

 The only difference that it bore to the other 

 quicksteps was that it didn't go quite so fast, 

 and about the middle of the piece it had six- 

 teen bars rest for everybody but the barytone 

 player, and from long and careful training 

 we had reached a stags where we could 



