We were long since admitted to, that mystic circle originally com= posed of Cynthia Counterpoint, Termione Harmony, Sam Semi= breve, and Bertram Bassoprofunda whose most dulcet note is a mens facing growl. The ladies, when not occupied with music, contrive to pass the time with bridge and Jazzing, Sam's vocation is pharmacy, the pursuit of his avocation, apt to confuse the minims in 4 piece of music with those called for in a prescription. 1
The impending music festival had evidently been their theme. Cynthia was talking, as we entered, one ¢l~ bow resting on the mantel, as is her wont, and the rest of her protruding dangerous angle. As usual, necessitated the hasty salvage ne tea things. This effected, sumed her discourse with— clavichord" when from the "Now, as to the well-tempered
region of Bertram's boots came th tenly 1" Shanghai." "(He pro-"Dere is no tsutch ting. Tsair
nounced this last, "Tschongl-gai")
Cynthia, as far as it la possible for one of her placid nature to de at once bristled.
"Do you mean to say that you know: better than Bach?"
No, dear lady," boomed Bors tam, It is merely dat tso mame of Bach's biograffers find deinselfa mistaken. Lett us eksamine dia orichinal dtidtle—
"Das swobl temperirte Clavier oer Practadin und Fugen dutch alle Tone. coa Semitonta sowohl tertiary,
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