The bashful earthquake & other fables and verses . The politest musician that ever was seenWas Montague Meyerbeer Mendelssohn extremely polite he would take off his hatWhenever he happened to meet with a cat. <at s not that I m partial to cats, he d explain ;Their music to me is unspeakable s nothing that causes my flesh so to crawlAs when they perform a G-flat caterwaul. Yet I cannot help feeling — in spite of their din —When I hear at a concert the first violinInterpret some exquisite thing of my own,If it were not for cat gut I d never be

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