192 Dr. burney’s Account of 
their child, advifed them by no means to mention it, as 
fuch a marvellous account would only expofe them to 
ridicule. However, a few days after, Mr. crotch being 
ill, and unable to go out to work, Mr. paul, a mafter- 
weaver by whom he was employed, palling accidentally 
by the door, and hearing the organ, fancied he had been 
deceived, and that crotch had flayed at home in order 
to divert himfelf on his favourite inftrument ; fully pre- 
poffeffed with this idea, he entered the houfe, and, fud- 
denly opening the dining-room door, faw the child play- 
ing on the organ while his brother was blowing the bel- 
lows. Mr. paul thought the performance fo extraordi- 
nary, that he immediately brought two or three of the 
neighbours to hear it, who propagating the news, a croud 
of near a hundred people came the next day to hear the 
young performer, and, on the following days, a ftill 
greater number flocked to the houfe from all quarters of 
the city ; till, at length, the child’s parents were forced to 
limit his exhibition to certain days and hours, in order to 
leffen his fatigue, and exempt themfelves from the in- 
convenience of conflant attendance on the curious mul- 
titude. 
This account agrees in mofl particulars with a letter I 
received from Norwich, and of which the following is 
an extract. 
“ There 
