“By placing the highest note and fullest bowl at my right hand and so on until the lowest note is at my extreme left, I can play the scale just as if I was playing on a piano.”
Miss Miller carefully moistened her fingers in the water and also moistened the edges of the bowls.
“Now listen and tell me what I am playing?” said she.
The Guide lightly passed her moist fingertips around the rim of the right-hand bowl and produced a clear sweet tone.
“G!” called the girls as she looked for their reply.
“Now these?”
Again she passed her fingers over the rims of the glasses and played the scale. As she brought out the notes the girls gathered about the table and listened with surprised interest.
“Now I will play my favourite patriotic song, ‘Our America,’ and after I have played it through you girls might sing it.”
OUR AMERICA