Note 14 — Chapter II · SCHOOL AND COLLEGE 1826-1838
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“’Tis near midnight, and I hear a bass-drum, kettle-drum and fife in the distance, playing the dear old boongalang tune of my earliest days, the very one to which General Gage marched out of Boston. It is delightful. I think it is the noise Wagner is always trying to make and failing.”—J. R. L. to C. E. Norton, 16 April, 1889.