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"And the melodies of Handel, are they tunes?" Lady Bar. "They are! They are!" Ips. "And the 'Russian Anthem, and the 'Marseillaise, and 'Ah, Perdona'?" Tal. "And 'Yankee Doodle'?" Lady Bar. "So that Sir Henry, who prided himself on his ignorance, has a wide field for its dominion." Tal. "All good violin players do like me; they prelude, not play tunes." Ips.
The members of the orchestra, who, for the last fifteen minutes, had been seemingly too much intoxicated to do duty, now sprang all at once to their feet and to their instruments, and, scrambling upon their table, broke out, with one accord, into, "Yankee Doodle," which they performed, if not exactly in tune, at least with an energy superhuman, during the whole of the uproar.
"Well, then, I shan't," said the captain, decidedly, "for 'twouldn't be any punishin'. Can't some of you whistle?" Willy Snow struck up Yankee Doodle, which soon charmed the wayward feet of the little volunteers, and set them to marching in good time.
The few airs which have any claim to represent us in this capacity have done service that no money can estimate. During the late war wherever the rebel flag was raised it was necessary to silence "Yankee Doodle."
"Bub," or "Bubby," as boys are familiarly called in the United States, could already mount a horse, call in the pigs, and sing Yankee Doodle as well, his father declared, as he could himself; while "Sissy" nursed her rag-doll, and lulled it to sleep, in her tiny rocking-chair, with as much tenderness and patience as a larger woman. They were wonderful children! Uncle John said.
I very nearly betrayed myself at the sight, but, fortunately, was able to keep up the character of apparent ignorance I had hitherto shown, and said "You, also, have got a little doodle to piddle with?" She laughed, and said "It is very different from yours. Give me yours here, that I may kiss it."
It should have been called "The Shagbark" or "The Doodle Bug's Lair."
The British answer to utterances like these was to seize a farmer from the country, who had come to town to buy a firelock, tar and feather him, stick a placard on his back, "American liberty, or a specimen of democracy," and conduct him through the streets amid a mob of soldiers and officers, to the strains of "Yankee Doodle."
I don't know what interesting event might have happened next, for the bold leader, who stood nearest, was becoming dangerously inflated with questions I don't know what might have happened had we not been interrupted by the appearance of a Spectre in Black. It appeared before us there in the broad daylight in the middle of a sunny afternoon while we were playing "Yankee Doodle."
"I wish you would come into the music-room and sing to me," said Tom, struck with a bright idea. "Nonsense, you don't care about music?" "Indeed I do; your voice is like an angel's." "You couldn't tell whether I was singing something from Trovatore or Yankee Doodle?" replied Elsie.
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