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Had the second form been given in the key of the first, 
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it would have seemed more natural; but as I was correct 
in both instances, I reasoned that the rooster might be. 
I finally settled it that the General’s first form was his 
morning in-door salute, and that the second was his out- 
of-doors, “every-day ” song; furthermore, that he or some 
of his ancestry had stolen his text from a strain in “The 
Seven Sleepers,” which in my memory runs — 
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However, a waggish composer offset this theft when he 
caught the jubilant cackle of a hen as she broke from her 
nest, heart and throat full of joyous melody, snatched it 
bodily, I say, clapped it to paper, and made “Old Dan 
Tucker :”” — 
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