... Lady at her piano-forte. She exeeutes eighteen tunes by the actual pressure of her tier on the keys ; and while all the natural notes are thus performed, her feet play the flats and sharps by means of pedals. The instrument, in fact, may be correctly called ...

... shade when compared with the subject of our notice- 7 a common starling, which has been taught not oniy to lay aside its natural notes and sing various ait with great exactness, but to.'cliatter away with i the volubility and much of the quaintness of an ...