Curtailing horses procured long horse-hair.

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings—nor lose the common touch; . . . Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it

Small animals Began to mooch around and climb up this Reversionary desk and dustable heirloom.

As argued by Dr. Burney, and as implied by the customs of still extant barbarous races, the first musical instruments were, without doubt, percussive—sticks, calabashes, tom-toms—and were used simply to mark the time of the dance ; and in this constant repetition of the same sound, we see music in its most homogeneous form.