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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: une Brune plus Belle que le Jour," "Sur le Pont d'Avignon," "En
Roulant ma Boule," "La Poulette Grise," and a hundred other folk-
songs linger among the peasants and voyageurs of these northern
woods. You may hear
"Malbrouck s'en va-t-en guerre--
Mironton, mironton, mirontaine,"
and
"Isabeau s'y promene
Le long de son jardin,"
chanted in the farmhouse or the lumber shanty, to the tunes which
have come down from an unknown source, and never lost their echo in
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