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Chaucer.

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39, page 568, has been received from a correspondent in Auburn, New York:

From Anno Domini--for short A.D.-- Begins the count of the Christian year.

That Adam was fatherless all agree; That he was a father is very clear.

That a dam is a mother who'll dispute?

Or that a son's his father's fruit?

And puzzle over it, little or much, A dam gave Holland to the Dutch.

THE MUSICAL ANECDOTE.

The Musical Anecdote given in YOUNG PEOPLE No. 44 can be translated by subst.i.tuting for the musical signs the following words in the order given:

_Staff._ _Quick, staccato._ _Turn._ _Sharp._ _Run._ _Scale._ _Bar._ _Flat._ _Chord._ _Dashed._ _Rest._ _Time._ _Quarter._ _Sixteenth._ _Full stop._ _Very loud._ _Bind._ _Measures._ _Quaver._ _Brace._ _Slur._ _Natural._ _Rest._ _Signature._

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