an Infant Mufician. i8g 
muficpby leaving even his food to attend to it when the 
organ was playing: and about Midfummer 1777 he 
would touch the key-note of his particular favourite 
tunes, in order to perfuade his father to play them. Soon 
after this, as he was unable to name thefe tunes, he 
would play the two or three firft notes of them when he 
thought the key-note did not fufficiently explain which 
he wilhed to have played. 
But, according to his mother, it feems to have been in 
confequence of his having heard the fuperior per- 
formance of Mrs. lulman, a mufical lady, who came to 
try his father’s organ, and who not only playedon it, but 
fung to her own accompanyment, that he firft attempted 
to play a tune himfelf : for, the fame evening, after her 
departure, the child cried, and was fo peevifh that his 
mother was wholly unable to appeafe him. At length, 
pafling through the dining-room, he fcreamed and ftrug- 
gled violently to go to the organ, in which, when he. was 
indulged, he eagerly beat down the keys with his little 
lifts, as other children ufually do after finding themfelves 
able to produce a noife, which pleafes them more than 
the artificial performance of real melody or harmony by 
others. 
The next day, however, being left, while his mother 
went out, in the dining-room with his brother, a youth 
of 
