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In the Dec. 14 paper, an item called ‘A secret trick with arithmetic’ starts out with a reference to the old English song about the ‘Partridge in a Pear Tree.’ Reference is made to ‘two calling birds.
This is a song by Robert Burns. It was written in 1795 and is read here by Joyce Falconer. This song, which had appeared in a number of eighteenth-century miscellanies, was reworked by Burns and set ...
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