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3 [[preprinted]] MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF MUSIC. JOHN C. FILLMORE, DIRECTOR. MILWAUKEE, WIS.,.... 189.. [[/preprinted]] strength is frittered away in a mere grind for bread and butter. It is as bad as your life in an Idaho gulch! My heart is not in it; and it is in just what you would like to see me doing. Did Prof. Putnam say anything to you about employing me next summer? He hasn't written a word to me. When Francis wrote me of his invitation, I went to work to render myself an expert with the phonograph, and I am "getting there." And, by the way, I want to take down [[underlined]] all [[/underlined]] the songs Francis knows with the phonograph so as to have them permanently recorded in authentic shape, as well as in the pianoforte translation. I don't know yet how I stand with the Northwestern Phonograph Co. They would be glad to give me the use of an instrument indefinitely in return for records of Indian songs. But of course I would make no such