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George didn’t know the tunes, either, which was also a disadvantage to his performances. There have been those that said overtly that it was taking possibilities sufficient to have such ghastly music happening, even when it was at its best; and that to exaggerate the crime by letting George assist, was merely flying in the face of Providence. I put up with it so long as I could, and then joined in and tried to improve it, but this encouraged young George to join in too, and that made a failure of it; as a result of George’s voice was just "turning," and when he was singing a dismal form of base, it was apt to fly off the handle and startle every body with a most discordant cackle on the upper notes. The acting of charades was tried on a number of evenings, by the young gentlemen and ladies, within the cabins, and proved essentially the most distinguished success of all of the amusement experiments. We by no means played both the melodeon or the organ besides at devotions-but I am too fast: younger Albert did know a part of a tune-one thing about "O Something-Or-Other How Sweet it is to Know that he’s his What’s-his-Name," (I don't remember the precise title of it, but it surely was very plaintive, and full of sentiment;) Albert performed that pretty much all the time, until we contracted with him to restrain himself.