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7 1 22 20110224 “And now, Gandsey,” said I, “mix yourself another tumbler of punch, and then let these gentlemen hear an Irish melody with something more of sentiment in it, than the singular strains you have already played. Suppose some ditty, which an unfortunate lover might sing to the mistress by whom he was neglected or abandoned. You have an air of this description, I doubt not, Gandsey; for such heart-breaking affairs must have happened in Ireland as well as elsewhere.” “Oh, plenty of them, sir,” said Gandsey; and he immediately commenced the melody, No. 5. 22

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