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... when I was a boy, by a Yankee of musical turn of mind, who came along and taught every branch of education by singing. He taught geography by singing, and to combine accuracy of memory with patriotism, he taught the multiplication-table to the tune of Yankee Doodle. [Laughter.] This worked very well as an aid to the memory in school, but when the boys went into business it often led to inconvenience. When a boy got a situation in a grocery-store and customers were waiting for their change, he never could tell the product of two numbers ...

— Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z • Various

... played "Dixie" and "Yankee Doodle," which in turn had been greeted with shouts by ...

— Poets of the South • F.V.N. Painter

... will conduct myself as the free-born American—the gay Brother Jonathan. I will whittle me a stick. I will whistle to myself "Yankee Doodle," and forget my passion in ...

— The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales • Bret Harte

... a doodle doo, My dame has lost her shoe; My master's lost his fiddlestick, And knows not what ...

— The Only True Mother Goose Melodies - Without Addition or Abridgement • Munroe and Francis

... beside Fido, on the basement-steps. He made his mouth into a funny round O, and grew purple in the face, trying to whistle Yankee Doodle. ...

— The Nursery, November 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 5 • Various

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