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Andy Andy’s adventure with the trumpet will be remembered. Hardly less
amusing experiments are practised in the orchestras of theatres,
especially when a play has run its hundred nights and time hangs heavy.
A handful of bluebottle flies inserted within the bass-vial, or the
greasing the fiddle-bows to make the instrument play a perpetual _mute_,
may be numbered among them. A little lather put into a cornet will be
blown out into soap-bubbles when it is played.