APPENDIX. 119 



Music IN NATURE. Contin. 



The thrushes and the sparrows, our greatest songsters, 

 I will not ask them to help me in my reply. I have 

 heard a cock crow an exclamatory phrase in the oratorio 

 of the ' Seven Sleepers ' : 



O Pro - con - sol. 



And where did we get 'Old Dan Tucker'? From the 

 hen as she quits the nest, singing her inherited song of 

 rejoicing. 1 



" But I do not need the birds ; the four-footed kind can 

 render answer. One winter morning, when everything 

 was ' frozen solid,' our old Morgan mare, Fanny, saluted 

 me with a clear scale-exercise, worthy in performance 

 of a skilful artist on the trombone : 



The next morning the weather had changed; it was 

 thawing, all was soft and sloppy. Not a note from 

 Fanny till I had walked the length of the barn and 

 come in full sight of her. Then in a subdued voice 

 she called, 



ft 



A yearling colt, spying a strange horse at the hitching- 

 post, sent him this challenge : 



1 See Index, Hen Music. 



