Songsters, as well as the Use of it, which is peculiar to our Nation, confirms me in this Opinion. It has at least received great Improvements among us, whether we consider the Instrument it self, or those several Quavers and Graces which are thrown into the playing of it. Every one might be sensible of this, who

[heard]

that remarkable overgrown Cat-call which was placed in the Center of the Pit, and presided over all the rest at

the

[2]

celebrated Performance lately exhibited in

Drury-Lane

.

Having said thus much concerning the Original of the Cat-call, we are in the next place to consider the Use of it. The Cat-call exerts it self to most advantage in the

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