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Updated: May 16, 2025

As the church is destitute of an organ, he has formed a band from the village amateurs, and established a musical club for their improvement; he has also sorted a choir, as he sorted my father's pack of hounds, according to the directions of Jervaise Markham in his Country Contentments: for the bass he has sought out all the 'deep, solemn mouths, and for the tenor the 'loud-ringing mouths, among the country bumpkins, and for 'sweet-mouths, he has culled-with curious taste among the prettiest lasses in the neighborhood; though these last, he affirms, are the most difficult to keep in tune, your pretty female singer being exceedingly wayward and capricious, and very liable to accident."

Washington Irving - The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon