AMERICAN ROBIN. 



V * 1 > 1 . I , 



Relatively ^hese bars were sung 40! libitum., but the 

 prevailing v^tendenct/ tvds toward this arrangement 



And if you listen to the first fellow, how out of patience 

 he seems to be with the turn matters have taken ! This 

 is the way he seems to scold in an indignant fortissimo 



voioe: 



Tut. tut,tut,tu't,tut;tutW.tut! 



After that we are perhaps favored with a duet ; but the 

 singers stick to their own ideas and melodies regardless 

 of each other, and the music becomes an unintelligible 

 jumble. There is certainly a bit of rivalry going on, for 

 Robin number one is getting excited and is hitting wildly 

 at his notes in allegro agitato time in good earnest I 

 It is a race now, no doubt, and one can not help think- 

 ing it is " every man for himself and the devil take the 



