MR.CHUPES' MUSICAL ATTAINMENTS 



noisy circumstances, the pangs of separa- 

 tion were greatly mitigated. 



This is the year in which Chupes seems 

 to have sowed his musical wild oats. A 

 little later in this same summer of our dis- 

 content he acquired the mournful cry of a 

 turkey and the busy " cluck, cluck " of a 

 hen; but both they and the Yankee Doodle 

 notes disappeared at the close of the sea- 

 son, when he again took his stand among 

 the sweetest of songsters. 



He was very fond of certain tunes, and 

 could give snatches of several. At the time 

 of his death he had nearly mastered a por- 

 tion of Sousa's Directorate. At least he had 

 his own version of it. It went about as fol- 

 lows: 



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