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The only times I had ever heard my little dog bawl like that were when she was baying at a bright Ozark moon, or when someone played a French harp or a fiddle close to her ear.

On the top of one was some valuable old china, and on the other an electrifying machine; a French harp with only half-a-dozen strings stood in the corner near the fire-place, and several dusty pictures of various sizes leaned with their faces against the wall.

She also plays at least 15 musical and questionable instruments, to wit: banjo, fiddle, guitar, French harp, tenor guitar, ukulele, trumpet, accordion, piano, twelve-string guitars, Jew's-harp, dulcimer, five-string banjo, hand saw, rubber gloves, "and a tune I makes by just slopping against my cheeks with my hands."

Then I do a number with the guit-tar and play the French harp and sing, all at the same time.

There were declamations, debates, the interminable, singsong ballads of the frontier, usually accompanied by French harp or fiddle.