The intimacy they of course continued all the Whitsun holidays; during which I also recollect that my aunt having discover'd that my brother Willi'm (who had sometime before been brought home from Dorking school) had both a good voice & ear, had set him to learn most of my sister's songs, with whom he now sang in unison whenever Mr Wafer came, who also taught them "Hope thou muse" & another duett or two to sing together. As Mr Wafer now used to leave a fiddle at our house in order to accompany my sister when he came, I now began to take it up & try what I could make of it without any instruction whatever & accordingly made a shift to scrape over a few times in a very discordant way whenever my father was not by who did not seem to like having his ears so annoy'd... << less