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BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. BIRTHS.

June 30. At Madras, the lady of Lieut. Colonel Foulis, Madras cavalry, of a son.

Oct. 7. At Grenada, the lady of John Ross, Esq. of a son.

26. At Morar-house, the lady of Colonel D. M'Donnel, of a son.

Nov. 1. At Catharine Bank, Mrs Ireland, of a

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At George's Street, Newhaven, Mrs James Bell, of a son.

6. At 15, Queen's Street, the lady of Lieutenant Colonel Ross, of the 4th Dragoon Guards, of a daughter.

At the Manse of Arrochar, Mrs Proudfoot, of a daughter.

8. At Bank Street, Mrs Rymer, of a daughter. 12. In Picardy Place, the lady of Major James Harvey, of Castlesemple, of a daughter.

In York Place, Mrs Boyd, of Broad Meadows, of a still-born child.

At Abercromby Place, the lady of William Plomer, Esq. of a daughter.

13. In Coats' Crescent, Edinburgh, the lady of John Horrocks, Esq. of a son.

-At Cheltenham, the lady of C. G. Wynne, Esq. of a daughter.

14. At his house, in York Place, Portman Square, London, the lady of Joseph Hume, Esq. M. P. of a daughter.

At Kelso, Mrs Dr Douglas, of a daughter. 16. In Forth Street, Mrs Hunt, of Pittencrieff, of a son.

-At the Abbey, Mrs Wemyss, of a daughter. 17. At 71, Great King Street, Mrs Kennedy, of a daughter.

19. At Dumfries, the lady of Captain D. M'Kenzie, late of the 42d regiment, Royal Highlanders, of a son.

21. Mrs Dove, Patriot Hall, of a son.

- At Avontoun House, Linlithgowshire, the lady of John Robertson, Esq. of Foveran, Aberdeenshire, of a son.

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At Edinburgh, Mrs Alexander Hunter, of

At Edinburgh, the Hon. Mrs Wardlaw, of a daughter.

26. At Woodslee, the lady of G. Scott Elliot, Esq. of Larriston, of a son.

27. At Exmouth, the lady of the AttorneyGeneral, of a son.

At Feddal-house, the lady of John Graham, Esq. younger, of Feddal, of a daughter.

At Darsham House, Suffolk, the lady of Major Purvis, of a daughter.

29. At Falkirk, the lady of Robert Walker, Esq. of Mumrils, of a son.

Lately.-At 58, Queen Street, Mrs M'Farlan, of a daughter.

MARRIAGES.

Oct. 24. At Thun, Edward Cromwell, Desbrowe, Esq. his Britannic Majesty's Charge d'Affaires to the Swiss Confederation, to Anne, eldest daughter of the Honourable Robert Kennedy. 26. At the British Ambassador's house, Brus sels, Colonel Berington, to Mrs Dickenson.

At the Manse of Benholm, the Rev. John Gleg, Minister of Inverbervie, to Ann, daughter of the Rev. James Scott, Minister of Benholm.

Nov. 2. At Channelkirk Manse, Mr George White, brewer, Clock Mill, Dunse, to Catherine Howard Drummond Mack, only daughter of the late Thomas Mack, Esq. of Kingston, Jamaica.

6. At North Wellington Place, Glasgow, Major William Steuart, of the 91st Regiment, to Anne, only daughter of the late Captain John Kennedy, of Springhall.

Captain Alexander Gordon, R. N. to Mary Elizabeth, only daughter of the late Sir Ernest Gordon, Bart. of Park.

7. At Portobello, Mr David Brown, writer in Edinburgh, to Ann, daughter of the late Mr Wm. Hunter, merchant in Edinburgh.

- At Bankhead, Mr George Rate Huntlaw, to Jane, daughter of Mr Thomas Park.

At Dublin, John Dingwall, Esq. of Ardo, Aberdeenshire, to Ann, daughter of Captain Geo. Taylor, of Cambden Street, Dublin.

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15. At St Pancras Church, Colonel A. Hogg, of the Honourable East India Company's service, to Agnes, daughter of William Dinwiddie, Esq. of Burton Crescent.

-At Fasnakyle, Lieut. Colonel Chisholm, of the Royal Artillery, to Miss Chisholm, daughter of the late Captain Chisholm, Fasnakyle.

In Westphalia, his Serene Highness the Duke de Croy, Prince of the Empire, Peer of France, and Grandee of Spain, to Maria, daughter of the Honourable Colonel Henry Dillon, and first cousin of the present Viscount Dillon.

16. At Craigend, Mr William Lees, farmer, of Fairneyhirst, to Agnes, second daughter of Mr Alexander Marshall, farmer there.

-At Berryhole, George Russel, Esq. younger, of Hayston, to Mary, youngest daughter of the late Mr Walker, Colessie.

At Craighead, the Rev. Archibald Bruce, one of the ministers of Stirling, to Georgina, daughter of Robert Banks, Esq. of Craighead.

20. At St John's, Hackney, Middlesex, Alex. Hutchison, Esq. of Peterhead, to Anne, eldest daughter of Alexander Hutchison, Esq. Lowe, Clapton.

Captain John Hobbs, of the Royal Engineers, to Mary, eldest daughter of the Rev. John Garlies Maitland, of Fairgirth.

At St Andrews, Mark Sprot, of Garnkirk, Esq. advocate, to Harriet, youngest daughter of the late Principal Hi.l.

23. At Mellerstain, John, Viscount Glenorchy, only son of the Earl of Breadalbane, to Eliza, eldest daughter of George Baillie, Esq. of Jerriswoode.

24. In Mary-la-Bonne Church, London, Wm. Robert Keith Douglas, Esq. M. P. youngest brother of the Marquis of Queensberry, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Walter Irvine, Esq. Luddington-house, Surrey.

25. At London, Captain Donald, late Royal West India Rangers, to Jemima, second daughter of the Rev. T. Baxter, formerly officiating minister of Stow, St Mary's, Essex.

26. At Largs, Robert Baine, Esq. Greenock, to Mrs Morris, widow of the late Hugh Morris, Esq. Glasgow.

27. At Edinburgh, Thomas Johnstone, jeweller in Edinburgh, to Isabella, only daughter of the late Malcolm M'Bean, Esq. Master Conductor of Ordnance, Madras Establishment.

28. The Earl of Wilton, second son of the Earl and Countess Grosvenor, to Lady Mary Stanley, eldest daughter of the Earl and Countess of Derby. 30. At Edinburgh, the Rev. Mr Geo. Dickson, North Sunderland, to Miss Cecilia, eldest daughter of Mr William Stark, builder.

-At Edinburgh, Mr James Cassie, baker, to Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the late James Hunter, merchant, Edinburgh.

DEATHS.

April 16. In camp, at Severndroog, India, of a short illness, Major James Balfour Watson, then in command of the 1st Battalion 4th Regiment native infantry, Bombay Establishment.

- At St Ann's, Jamaica, Thomas, youngest son of Mr William Armstrong, Niddry Street.

May 18. At Loodonah, Captain George Rodney Blane, of the Bengal Engineers, aged 30, second son of Sir George Blane, Bart.

29. At Serampore, near Calcutta, Mrs Carey, wife of the Rev. Dr Carey, the excellent and highly useful missionary there.

June 7. At Calcutta, Alex. Campbell, Esq. of the firm of Goold and Campbell, son of the late John Campbell, Esq. Cashier of the Royal Bank. 9. At Madras, P. Crawfurd, Esq. M. D. son of the late Major Crawfurd, of Newfield, Ayrshire. Aug. 7. On Plantation Garden of Eden, Demerara, Mr Andrew Sim, planter, a native of Ellon.

19. At Demerara, of the yellow fever, Mr Geo. Stoe Gibson, aged 24.

Oct. 21. In Mornington Place, London, in his 28th year, Mr Edward West, youngest son of the author of "Letters to a Young Man," &c. 27. Mrs Stirling Edmondstone.

At sea, off Corsica, on his passage to Italy, for the benefit of his health, Henry Davidson, Esq. advocate, second son of H. Davidson, Esq. W. S.

29. At Cork, William Chalmer, Esq. son of the late William Chalmer, Esq. of Dalry, surgeon in Edinburgh.

At Auchintroig, Stirlingshire, in the 88th year of his age, William Maclachlan, Esq. Lieut. on the half-pay of the 25th Regiment.

30. At Tullamore, the Hon. Sholto Scott Douglas, third son of the late Hon. Lord Douglas, and Captain in the Enniskillen Dragoons.

31. At her house, Richmond Court, Janet Ferrier, relict of the deceased Andrew Melliss.

At Eatington Park, Warwickshire, after a short illness, in the 21st year of her age, Lady Elizabeth Stanhope, sister of the Earl of Chesterfield.

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At Croom's Hill, Blackheath, Mrs Campbell, wife of Colonel Campbell.

- At London, Major General Sir Augustus Honstedt, K. C. G. aged 68.

At Warriston Crescent, Louisa, daughter, and, on the 5th November, John, son of John Wright, merchant in Edinburgh.

Nov. 1. At the Leys, near Dollar, James Brown, late of Killin, surgeon, R. N.

Suddenly, aged about 40, William Wight, of Ednam, well known in that neighbourhood as the author of various poetical pieces, some of which were recently collected and published by subscription, under the title of "Cottage Poems." Though born in a state of helpless and pitiable deformity, his assiduous perseverance early enabled him to overcome the combined disadvantages of nature and poverty, and, unassisted, to enrich his mind with knowledge and cultivation. But his literary acquirements were his least praise. It was his blameless life, his uniform practice of every virtue within his humble sphere, his unaffected piety, his cheerful resignation, his unrepining patience, his warm affection and gratitude towards those whose benevolence alleviated the evils of his lot-evils such as are rarely the portion of humanity-that gained him universal sympathy and approbation, and raised up for him friends in various parts of the kingdom, distinguished yet more by their character and talents, than by their station in life.

2. At Bellfield, Miss St Leger Duncan. 4. At Bechill, East Lothian, Martha Carmichael, only child of Mr James Hume.

At Edinburgh, the infant daughter of Mr Alexander Manners, W. S.

- At Corf house, Bunawan, Thos. Stevenson, aged 87.

5. At Baronald, William Lockhart, Esq. of Baronald.

At Lochee, near Dundee, the Rev. James Keyden, Minister of Fettercairn.

6. At Greenbank, Lasswade, Mr William Smith, in the 92d year of his age.

At his house, West Register Street, Mr Robert Norrie, painter.

At Longforgan, the Rev. Adam Cairns, Minister of that parish.

7. At Peebles, Mrs Janet Tod, widow of the deceased Robert Scott, formerly tenant in Bellanrig, in the 86th year of her age.

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At Edinburgh, Jane, eldest daughter of Cathcart Boyd, Esq. late Examiner and Accountant of the Salt and Fisheries in his Majesty's Customs for Scotland.

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At Spa Villas, Gloucester, Jessie Hunter, wife of the Rev. John Hunter, and second daughter of the late John Young, Esq. of Bellwood. At Ayr, Robert Robertson, Esq. of Duncanziemer.

9. At Edinburgh, Charles Murray, Esq. many years a distinguished favourite on the CoventGarden boards. This gentleman was the son of Sir John Murray, Bart. of Broughton, secretary to Charles Edward, the Pretender, in the rebellion of 1745, who, after the final ruin of the cause of

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his unfortunate master, retired to Cheshunt, in Hertfordshire, where, in 1754, the subject of this memoir was born. Charles, under the immediate guardianship of his father, received an excellent classical education, and was, at a proper season, sent into France, to perfect himself in the language of that country, à language which, from his youngest days, he spoke with the correctness and fluency of the most accomplished native. Being designed by his friends for the medical profession, he was, on his return to England, placed as a pupil with a London practitioner of eminence, and, having obtained a competent knowledge of pharmacy and surgery, entered into the sea service as a surgeon, in which capacity he made several voyages. Being tired of this service, he entered into an engagement with Mr Tait Wilkinson, and made his first appearance on the stage at York, in 1775, in the character of Carlos, in the Fop's Fortune, under the assumed name of Raymur. Thence he went to Norwich, and afterwards to Bath. At the death of the late Mr Farren, he entered into an engagement with Mr Harris, at Covent-Garden Theatre, where he appeared in 1797, in the part of Shylock, in the Merchant of Venice. In characters of sensibility and deep pathos, Mr Murray has been unrivalled; and in such parts as Old Norval, Lusignan, and Adam, "we shall never look upon his like again." Mr Murray has left a son and a daughter in the profession. The latter (Mrs Henry Siddons) is highly distinguished as an actress, both in tragedy and in genteel comedy, and is the present proprietor of the Theatre-Royal, Edinburgh. Her brother, Mr William Murray, the acting manager of that respectable theatre, is also a great favourite in this city.

10. At Restalrig, Alex. Duncan, Esq. W. S. Mrs Margaret Parlane, spouse of Dr Chas. Stuart, of Dunearn.

11. While travelling, within six posts of Florence, the Countess of Besborough, sister of Earl Spencer and the late Duchess of Devonshire.

-In Newhall Street, Liverpool, Edward Simon, aged 104 years and 22 days. He had been employed as a labourer in the Docks near 70 years. His mother died aged 103 years, his father 104 years, and his brother 104 years.

-At Edinburgh, Mrs Isabella Wilde, relict of Robert Newall, teacher in Annan, and daughter of the late James Wilde, teacher in Dumfries.

12. In Cumberland Place, New Road, London, aged 70, the Hon. Mrs Mill, widow of the late John Mill, Esq. of Noranside, Forfarshire. 13. At Ayr, Major John Chalmers.

At Broughton Place, Christopher Moubray, late Cashier of the Friendly Insurance Office.

- At Greenock, after a lingering illness, John Lawmont, Esq. surgeon, R. N. He was surgeon of the Vincejo at the period of her capture, and the confidant of the lamented Captain Wright in the Tower of the Temple in Paris, and the last friend who had access to his dungeon.

- At Perth, John, the eldest son of Laurence Craigie, Esq. of Glendoick.

James Dunlop, of Househill, Colonel of the Renfrewshire Militia.

14. At West Wells, Wilts, aged 71, Lieut. General Kerr, formerly of the Hon. East India Company's service.

At her house, Writer's Court, Mrs Mary Hunter, in the 75th year of her age.

-At his house, Robert Bruce, Esq. of Pitteadie. 15. At Dublin, at an advanced period of life, Dr John Barrett, Vice-Provost of Trinity College in that city.

16. Of an apoplexy, in London, Rear-Admiral Burney, F. R. S. in his 72d year, eldest son of the

learned and elegant Historian of Music, and brother to Madame d'Arblay, the celebrated novelist, and the late Dr Charles Burney. Admiral Burney, at a very early period of his life, first as midshipman, afterwards as lieutenant, accompanied Captain Cook in the two last of those enterprizing, perilous, and important voyages, which have reHected so much honour on the late reign, and proved so beneficial to the general interests of mankind.

17. At Edinburgh, aged 52, Miss Grace Seller, daughter of the late Mr William Seller, Peterhead. At Weymouth, Charles Kerr, Esq. late of Abbotrule.

- At Kenleith, Helen, third daughter of Mr William Watson, farmer there.

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At London, James Wilson, Esq. F. R. S. Professor of Anatomy to the Royal College of Surgeons.

-At Edinburgh, Mrs Lilias Carmichael, widow of the late Mr John Carmichael, merchant in Glasgow.

In Russel Square, London, aged 88, the Right Hon. Sir James Mansfield, late Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas.

24. At Stockbridge, Mrs Elizabeth Currie, widow of the late Lieut. Colonel Irving, of the 78th Regiment of Foot.

At his house, Canonmils, Mr Jas. Thomson, damask weaver, Leith Wynd.

At New Rattray, Robert Birrell, Esq. late Provost of Kirkaldy.

At Alnmouth, after a short but severe illness, Eleanor Mary, eldest daughter of Mr Annett, of that place; and on the 15th April last, on board the Kent East Indiaman, on her passage to Bombay, Elizabeth Fenwick, youngest daughter of Mr Annett, and wife of Andrew Gibson, M. D. civil surgeon at the Court of Sattarah.

25. At Bedford Place, Alloa, Margaret, eldest daughter of Alexander Macfarlane, Esq.

26. At Kennington, near London, while on a visit to his friends, Mr Andrew Lawrie, late of Buccleugh Street, Edinburgh.

27. At Edinburgh, Mr Luke Fraser, late one of the Masters of the High School of this city, aged 85 years.

28. At Woolwich, Lieut. Colonel James West, Royal Artillery.

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At Craighouse, Miss Colquhoun, eldest daughter of the ate Humphrey Colquhoun, Esq At Bankfoot, Mrs Jean Hay, relict of Alex. Robertson, Esq. one of the Principal Clerks of Session.

Lately. The Widow Crooks, of Fineshade, near Doncaster. This poor woman was so impressed with what she considered an evil omen, (an owl's flying three times across her on her way from church), that she actually became ill in consequence, and died.

Printed by James Ballantyne & Co. Edinburgh.

BLACKWOOD'S

EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

No. LIX.

DECEMBER, (PART II.) 1821.

VOL. X.

DEAR NORTH,

IRISH MELODIES.

IT has often struck me with astonishment, that the people of Ireland should have so tamely submitted to Mr Thomas Moore's audacity, in prefixing the title of Irish to his melodies. That the tunes are Irish, I admit; but as for the songs, they in general have as much to do with Ireland, as with Nova Scotia. What an Irish affair for example-" Go where glory waits thee," &c. Might not it have been sung by a cheesemonger's daughter of High Holborn when her master's apprentice was going in a fit of valour to list himself in the third Buffs, or by any other such amatory person, as well as a Hibernian Virgin? And if so, where is the Irishism of the thing at all? Again,

When in death I shall calm recline,

Bear my heart to my mistress dear; Tell her it fed upon smiles and wine

Tell her it fed upon fiddlesticks! Pretty food for an Irishman's heart for the ladies! Not a man of us from Carnsore Point to Bloody Forland would give a penny a pound for smiles; and as for wine, in the name of decency, is that a Milesian beverage? Far from it indeed; it is not to be imagined that I should give five or six shillings for a bottle of grape-juice, which would not be within five quarts of relieving me from the horrors of sobriety, when for the self-same sum I could stow under my belt a full gallon of Roscrea, drink beyond comparison superior. The idea is in fact absurd. But there would be no end were I to point out all the unIrish points of Moore's poetry. Allusions to our localities, it is true, we sometimes meet with, as thinly scat

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tered as plumbs in the holiday puddings of a Yorkshire boarding-school, and scattered, for the same reason, just to save appearances, and give a title to the assumed name. There's the Vale of Ovoca, for instance, a song upon a valley in Wicklow, but which would suit any other valley in the world, provided always it had three syllables, and the middle one of due length..

Were I in a savage mood, I could cut him up with as much ease as a butcher in Ormond market dissects an ox from the county of Tipperary; but I shall spare him for this time, intending, if I have leisure, to devote an entire paper to prove his utter incompetence; at present I shall only ask, whether, in these pseudo-Irish Melodies, there is one song about our saints, fairs, wakes, rows, patrons, or any other diversion among us? Is there one drinking song which decent individuals would willingly roar forth after dinner in soul-subduing soloes, or give to the winds in the full swell of a thirty-man chorus ? Not one-nonot one. Here am I, M. M. Mulligan-who, any night these twenty years, might have been discovered by him whom it concerned, discussing my four-and-twentieth tumbler, and giving the side of the festive board, or the chair presiding o'er the sons of light, with songs fit to draw nine souls out of one weaver, and, of course, hearing others in my turn-ready to declare that never was song of Moore's sung in my company; and that is decisive. If any one should appeal from my long experience-let such unbelieving person leave the case to any independent jury, selected indifferently from all districts,-from the honest Inishowen

*This expression, I own, is Irish; but it is lost by the common punctuation, mistress dear, which is just as bald an epithet as any man would wish to meet with on a day's journey.

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consumers of the north, down to the wet-gulleted devourers of Tommy Walker in the south, and he will be convinced. In fact, my dear North, read over his " Fill the bumper fair,' and you will find, that instead of giving us a real hearty chanson-a-boire, as we say in Dunkirk, you have a parcel of mythological botheration about Prometheus, and other stale personages, which, in the days of heathenism, would be laughed at for its ignorance, as it is now, in the days of Christianity, voted a bore for its impertinence. And is this the national songwriter for this much-injured and harddrinking island?-Perish the idea! As an oratorical friend of mine once said at an aggregate meeting in Fishamble Street, such a thought is a stigma upon humanity, and a taint upon the finer feelings of man!

A fair sort of young man, the Hon. Mr O'Callaghan, of the White Knight's family, has been so struck with this deficiency of Mr T. Moore, that he is going to give us a number of melodies in opposition to those of our little bard. I wish him success, but I am afraid that, though he is an ingenious person, he is not possessed of that ideal faculty which is requisite for the task. For fear he should fail, I have determined to start, and shew the world a real specimen of true Irish melody, in a series of songs symphonious to the feelings of my countrymen. Neither Moore nor O'Callaghan will, I flatter myself, be much read after this series of mine. I hate boasting; but, -pocas polabras-as Christopher Sly observes.

We were talking about the business last Thursday, at the Cock in Marystreet, while Talbot was playing most divinely on the Union pipes. There were present Terence Flanagan, Pat. Moriarty, Jerry O'Geogheghan, Phelim Macgillicuddy, Callaghan O'Shaughnessy, and some other equally well-known and respected characters, who are to a man good judges of punch, porter, and poetry; and they agreed it would be a sin if I did not publish a half-dozen of melodies, four of which I wrote in the tap-room the night before, just to get rid of a quarter of an hour or so, while I was finishing a few pints in solitary reflection. No mau

can resist pressing of this kind, and I yielded. Talbot, in the handsomest manner, volunteered to set the airsfor which, though I offered him instant payment, he would not suffer me to remunerate him in any other manner than by permitting me to treat him to a hot glass. When it was asked what would be the best vehicle for giving them to the public, we voted that the only Irish Magazine, as you truly styled your great work last November, was the fit soil for the planting of Irish melodies; and it was carried unanimously that they should be instantly transmitted to your care, Mr North. If you publish them, my fame, and that of my country, will be materially extended. I think you will find them superior to the mere milk-andwater affairs which you see in your every-day reading.

I have not aimed, or rather Talbot has not aimed, at bothering the plain and simple melody by any adventitious airs and graces. You have them, unadorned, adorned the most—that is, stark-naked. The piano trashery has bedevilled the tunes given by Moore; and this is another instance of the man's insufficiency. Just think of the piano being chosen as the instrument for Irish airs, when he had, as a southern correspondent of yours sings,

The harp or bagpipe, which you please, to melodize with! Moore first had Sir John Stevenson as his composer, (who now is at work for Mr O'Callaghan) and then he took up Bishop-both friends of mine, with whom I often have cleaned out a bottle, and therefore I shall not say any thing derogatory of either. In short, let the public judge between Moore, Mulligan, and O'Callaghan-Bishop, Talbot, and Stevenson-and God defend the right. I shall make a few remarks on the melodies I send, and then conclude. Indeed I had not an idea of writing half so much when I began.

Melody the first is theological, containing the principal acts of our na tional Saint-his coming to Ireland on a

stone-his never-emptying can, commonly called St Patrick's pot-his changing a leg of mutton into a sal mon in Lent time-and his banishment of the snakes. Consult Jocelyn, or his translator, E. L. Swift, Esq. (1)

(1) The tune to which Mr Mulligan has put these words is a great favourite in Ireland. It is said the original words ("The night before Lary was stretched") were written by a very learned gentleman, who is now a dignitary of the established church in Ireland. It is a first-rate slang song. C. N.

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