Show one of john quincy adamas stories ft st louis globe democrat mr nir robert C winthrop once narra narrated tedon on the authority of john quincy adams a story illustrative of ignon rice in europe E drope concerning on our r national it onal air soo soon n after the signing icv C ortho of lie treaty of peace with great britain at A grand ball was to le be given there at which it waa was proposed to pay the customary musical compliment to all the sovereigns t who were either present or represented on oil the occasion the sovereign people of the united states ates represented there by mr adams himself mr bayard Bi yard mr ar clay 11 mr jonathan russell and mr gallatin Galla tiu were of course not to be overlooked and the musical conductor or baud ins inester ster of place called upon these louers to fuini li uron him im with our iia national ional ai air our national air said alkey is yankee doodle yankee Io doodle odle said the conductor is that 9 where shall I 1 find it by whom was it composed can you ahillip ly me too with the score the perplexity odthe commission eom mission ra may be better conceived then de bribed cri bed they hall lia d never imagined 1 lint that they would have scores ot of his ibis soil sort to settle and each tu turned arned to the other in despair mr adams finally remembered that there nas was in their hoti household a colored servant cr vant of mr ir clay who like so many of his race was w a first rate whistler and who ullo was certain tain to know yankee doodle dle by heart he ire has sent for accordingly and the problem was wm solved without further delay the tile bandmaster jolted jotted down the air as the colored boy whistled it and before night said mr adams yankee doodle was set to so many parts that you would hardly have known it and it came out ibe the next day ay in all the pride pomp and circum circum stance of viol and hautboy of drum trumpet and cymbal to the edification of the allied sovereigns of europe and to the glorification of the united sovereigns of america |