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chairman announced, "And now we are to be favored with a duet played by Dorothy and Mildred Wright"

As we walked on stage, I saw my mother and father in the audience. Mother smiled, encouragingly. We sat down at the piano and after a pause I gave Tid the signal to begin. I concentrated so hard on my part that I was not aware that something was amiss. I came to the closing bars of the dance and stopped.

To my surprise and horror, Tid went right on thumping the base, plunk, plank-plank, plunk, plank-plank. Somehow, she had fallen behind or else I had gone too fast. in any case, for what seemed an eternity after I finished, she continued thumping. She had memorized her plunk, plank-planks and would not stop until she had played the exact number of them.

A rustle of laughter swept over the audience. It grew and grew until it became a roar. They did not mean to be unkind, much less derisive. No doubt it was a funny sight, the one little gir lstolidly hammering out a rhythm