764 A SINGING HESPEROMYS. 
apt to become monotonous from its admitting almost no variation. 
Monotony was not chargeable to Hespie’s Wheel Song. With 
unconscious skill she would work out of it a wonderful variety. 
Instead of the first measure she would sometimes open with the 
second one, then follow it with the first. Or she might start with 
the third, following with the second, or the first, just as fancy 
seemed to dictate. Then she had her own whims as to the amount 
of repetition of each bar; that is to say, she would double or even 
NO. i. THE WHEEL SONG. 
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triplicate a measure, when the notion took her. In this regard, 
time was quite ignored. Indeed, whatever may have been the 
Hesperomys’ canon of musical procedure or propriety, we could 
not but regard it as arbitrary, or beyond our comprehension. Still 
it must be admitted, that this little performer possessed precision, 
delicacy, and scope of execution. 
She had one role, which although the notation is simpler than 
that of the Wheel Song, yet I think to her its execution was more 
