We at least would not be obliged to listen to the same tune all the time.

Does any one know of a way to put a mute on a harmonica ?" "Ah reckon Ah do," mimicked Emma Dean, taking careful aim and shying a pebble at Wash.
The pebble went rather wide of the mark--that is, the mark for which it was intended, but it reached another and a fully as satisfactory one.
The pebble hit Washington's pack mule on the tender part of its hind leg, galvanizing that member into instant and vigorous action.
The eyes of the Overlanders were not quick enough to see the movement that followed.

What they did see, however, was Washington Washington lifted from the ground and pitched head first into a clump of laurel, where the light foot of an outraged mule had landed him.
"He's killed!" cried Anne, voicing the thought that was in the mind of each of her companions, and a concerted rush was made for the clump of laurel.
They found the colored boy somewhat dazed when they dragged him from the bushes.
"Wha--whar dat 'monica ?" he gasped, referring to the harmonica that he was playing when the mule kicked him.
"Maybe he swallowed it," suggested Emma.

"I hope not, for he surely would have musical indigestion.

Wouldn't that be terrible--for us ?" "No great loss if it has landed over in the Cumberlands," observed Tom Gray.