. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . BLOWING THE QUILLS. THE DAXCE IN PLACE A FIELD-HAND. that is the fiddle; but for the true Africandance, a dance not so much of legs and feetas of the upper half of the body, a sensual,devilish thing tolerated only by Latin-Ameri-can nriasters, there was wanted the dark in-spiration of African drums and the banjosthrump and strum. And then there was that long-drawn hu-man cry of tremendous volume, richness, andresounfl, to which no instrument within theirreach could make the faintest approach : Eh ! ]iou la belle Layotte ma niourri no
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . BLOWING THE QUILLS. THE DAXCE IN PLACE A FIELD-HAND. that is the fiddle; but for the true Africandance, a dance not so much of legs and feetas of the upper half of the body, a sensual,devilish thing tolerated only by Latin-Ameri-can nriasters, there was wanted the dark in-spiration of African drums and the banjosthrump and strum. And then there was that long-drawn hu-man cry of tremendous volume, richness, andresounfl, to which no instrument within theirreach could make the faintest approach : Eh ! ]iou la belle Layotte ma niourri nocent,< )ui nocent ma mourri ! ill! the instruments silent while it rises andswells with migiity energy and dies away dis-tantly, Yea-a-a-a-a-a ! — then the crashof savage drums, horns, and rattles — For the fair Layotte I must crazy die!Yes, crazy I must die! To all this there was sometimes added aPans-pipeof but three reeds,made from single -»—— < zm— Eh-h-h! poll laYea! For the belle - yottc/air La - yotle ma1 nioiir - IImust era no - cent,/y (lie, Oiii, Vcs. centzy mourm
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