an Infant Mujicum. 195 
The fir ft voluntary he heard with attention was per- 
formed at his father’s houfe by Mr. mully, a mufio 
mafier ; and as foon as he was gone, the child deeming to 
play on the organ in a wild and different manner from 
what his mother was accuftomed to hear, file afked him 
what he was doing? And he replied, “ I am playing 
“ the gentleman’s fine thing.” But file was unable to 
.judge of the refemblance: however, when Mr. mully 
returned a few days after, and was a iked, whether the 
child had remembered any of the pafiages in liis volun- 
tary, he anfwered in the affirmative. This happened 
about the middle of November 1 777, when he was only 
two years and four months old, and for a confiderable 
time after he would play nothing elfe but thefe pafiages. 
A mufical gentleman of Norwich informed Mr. par- 
tridge, that, at this time,fuch was the rapid progrefs he 
had made : n judging of the agreement of founds, that he 
played the Eafter- Hymn with full harmony; and in the 
laft two or three bars of Hallelujah , where the fame found 
is fuftained, he played chords; with both hands, by which 
the parts were multiplied to fix, which he had great dif- 
ficulty in reaching on account of the fliortnefs of his 
fingers. The fame gentleman obferved, that in making 
a bafe to tunes which he had recently caught by his ear, 
whenever the harmony ciifpleafed him, he would con- 
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