Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1877 — The Precocity of Felicien David. [ARTICLE]

The Precocity of Felicien David.

r Cadanet, in tfuulepurrumui, of Vaucluse. lUcame from a wry poor family, but hia father enjoyed considerabfeJncal ieputation aS. a musician, leading the village choir apd rnMnaraUs ifi the schools. f<* music. His andTudilCGd his friend, the ohapel-mastar.ta tesph the boy the rudiments. Felfcfthwaderapid ♦progrwa,. 4>WMd»y, wben sjght yearn old he teyfcm miuwcript to his teacher for the puspooe es anting the latter a question about it. “ What are you attempting to do T" asked the master. U I am comthe first nnqdM#Miwftins,» VfcoV answered the boy, “I am endeavoring to

learn them; please try this, and see If while glancing over the boy’s hieroglyphics, and then began. When hair way through, he stopped short. ** You little story-tellegll* he exclaimed. “ Why, you have copied every note!" “Upon mp word oFnogor," said the boy, impressively, “ I hhve not.” Not had he. The 'motive was indeed his own. The chapelmaster went through it again and again, and on the following Bunday it was given 'by the choir of St. Bauveur’s.— London Bfusiail World.