text:  We who had been his great friend patron (or rather he was ours ) to whom he had so often condescended on the Saturday evening to hum whistle and too-too over the tune--of his own composing--that was to be the admiration of the whole parish on the succeeding day--we were henceforth to be as the uninitiated and left to find out and follow as we best might the very eccentric windings of his Sunday's asthmatic performance; which always went at the rate of three crotchets and a cough to the end of the psalm which he took care should be an especial long one