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blown through the air and it hit a horse in the side endwise and it went clear through it. The horse was alive but it had to be shot. Under a pile of debris and roofs of houses was found a baby (alive) and a horse. The horse was pinned so that it could not move and that saved the child. It was uninjured. A chicken was found with its feathers all blown off and it was alive. Many people went to see the ruins but I was too busy with the Osage music that I could not get away.

Mr. Cadman is doing pretty well with the songs. He does not catch on as quickly as Tracy, and was a little irritating with his importance, but he soon learned his place. When I corrected him in some of the music, he said "Well, I hear it that way and I am going to write it that way. I won't be responsible for anything else. I won't take oath to anything else." I did not say anything but when he appealed to me after he had written several phrases I said, "You are responsible for the music and will write it as [[underlined]] you [[/underlined]] hear it. The

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way you hear it must be absolutely correct, so you will please write it that way." He went on and said he had all the notes. "All right," I said "and now we will compare the words and musical syllables with the notes. We compared and he had twice as many notes as there were words and syllables, and he said, "the number of notes do not correspond to the number of words." But," I said, "you heard those notes and I didn't. You are responsible for the music, not I. But I am responsible for the words and I can take oath that I hear so many words and so many musical syllables. There must be [[strikethrough]] well [[/strikethrough]] so many notes to a syllable or word, one, two or three. There must be so many beats to a musical phrase. Then he attempted to attack Fillmore's and Tracy's works and I told him they were perfectly satisfactory. Their notes corresponded to the words and syllables and the pitch was correct. He soon saw that [[underlined]] he [[/underlined]] his work would be absolutely worthless