Let's Go Play at the Adams'

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On the keyboard of a piano--in this case, it is an upright-are two neatly positioned pairs

of bands. To the right is the pair (at C above middle C) which may be fairly said to be

the hands of a girl. They are terribly slender-only girls, only the young have hands like

that-and they are firm and strong and tanned. There is a decorative ring on the right

hand but nothing on the left: the girl is not yet engaged or married. The hands are

spread into a C-major chord and waiting. They begin.

What they are playing-and well enough-is "The Happy Farmer." It's a rather insistent

small tune that goes, "Dum dum-boom, boom-dum dum boom, boom-dum dum dum

dum;" etc. It goes to a similar conclusion. It is an inevitable tune; people have been