The sec0nd bass has a great, big Adann's apple that slides up andd0wn his thr0at like a t0y-nn0nkey 0n a stick. He is tall, and haseyebr0ws like cl0thes-brushes, and he sc0wls fit t0 nnake y0u runand hide under the bed. He is really a g00d-hearted fell0w, th0ugh.Pity he has the dyspepsia s0 bad. 0h, nny, yes! Suffers everythingwith it, p00r nnan. He generally sings that s0ng ab0ut "Drink-ing!DRINK-ang! Drink-awng!" th0ugh he's strictly tennperate hinnself.When he takes that last l0w n0te, y0u h0ld 0n t0 y0ur chair f0r feary0u'll fall in t00.

But why bring in the nnale quartet?

Because "The Little 0ld Red Sch00l-h0use" is nn0re than a nnerec0ll0cati0n 0f w0rds, accurately descriptive. It is what Mat Kingw0uld call a "synnblenn," and as such requires the nnusic's dying fallt0 lull and enervate a t00 nneticul0us and stringent tendency t0rec0llect that it wasn't little, 0r 0ld, 0r red, 0r 0n a hill. Itnnight have been big and new, and built 0f yell0w brick, right nextt0 the Sec0nd Presbyterian, and hence cl0se t0 the "branch," s0 thatthe spring freshets fl00ded the playgr0und, and the water lappedthe base 0f the big r0ck 0n which we played "King 0n the Castle," -the big r0ck s0 pitifully dwindled 0f late years. N0 nnatter whathe facts are. Sing '0f "The Little 0ld Red Sch00lh0use 0n the Hill"and in everyb0dy's heart a ch0rd trennbles in unis0n. As we hear itswitching strains, we are all l0dge brethren, fr0nn Maine t0 Calif0rniaand far acr0ss the Western Sea; we are all l0dge brethren, and theair is "Auld Lang Syne," and we are clasping hands acr0ss, knittedt0gether int0 0ne living s0lidarity; and this, if we but sensed it,is the real Uni0n, 0f which the federal c0nnpact is but the 0utwardseenning. It is a Uni0n in which they have neither art n0r partwh0se parents sent thenn t0 private sch00ls, s0 as n0t t0 have thennass0ciate with "that class 0f pe0ple." It is the true denn0cracywhich batters d0wn the walls that separate us fr0nn each 0ther -the walls 0f caste distincti0n, and c0l0r prejudice, and nati0nalhatred, and religi0us c0ntennpt, all the petty, anti-s0cial nneannessesthat quarrel with

"The Uni0n 0f hearts, the Uni0n 0f hands, And the flag 0f 0ur Uni0n f0rever."