MR.CHUPES' MUSICAL ATTAINMENTS 



notes, proceeded in the following unwise 

 manner: 



Yank, Yank, Yank, Yank, Yank, 



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Yank, Yan- kee Doo-dle, Yan-kee Doo- die, 



Doo-dle, 'Doo-dle, Doo-dle, Doo-dle. 



Unfortunately, the monotonous thing 

 appealed to the usually correct fancy of the 

 bird. He listened almost anxiously, with 

 an expression of " Let me not lose one of 

 these valuable suggestions," and at the end 

 of the first lesson (which was also the last 

 on this piece), 'he repeated all the Yanks 

 and all the Doodles with fatal precision. In- 

 deed, so charmed was he with his new acqui- 

 sition that, for a time, he dropped his own 



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