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Show "Yankee Doodle" an Irish Jig. Mr. W. H. GriUtan Flood writes Will you allow me to point out to you that tho tune or "Yankee Doodle" is an old IrlHli Jig of the early eighteenth eight-eenth century, well known In Ireland Btill as "All tho Way to CJalway?" Your statement that it wa3 composed by Dr. Schuckburgh Is a Klip. You probably meant that ho wiote tho doggerel words, which Is generally admitted, but lie merely adapted his verses to the Irish Jig, which was printed as "Yaukeo Doodle" in 1782, and was subsequently Introduced by Arnold Into his "Two to One." London Lon-don Truth. |