Those lovely valleys and mountains were filled throughout the day and night with the roar of heavy shooting.

My great-uncle in a reefer-jacket, and looking like an old sea-captain with his white beard flying, was putting his whole heart and soul into the wheezey old harmonium ….

Parker appears to have contributed little to his pupil's musicality other than consolidate what Ives had already thought to be the case, that the whole of American musical society was dominated by a German academicalism which had little to offer to the making of a specifically indigenous musical style.

By easing the halyard, the luff of the sail was made to sag to leeward.