There seems to be no reason why they should linger on the way to untrammeled freedom or restrict themselves within a scale.

The boundless empire of sound is at their disposal and let them profit by it.

That is what dogs do when they bay at the moon, cats when they meow, and the birds when they sing.

A German has written a book to prove that the birds sing false.

Of course he is wrong for they do not sing false.