We were called out again and again.

Then we came on the stage together, and the applause increasing I sat down at the keyboard and played an accompaniment with my own interpolations upon "Old Folks At Home," which I had taught Adelina, and she sang the words.
Then they fairly took the roof off.
Once during a sojourn in Paris I was thrown with Christine Nilsson.
She was in the heyday of her success at the Theater Lyrique under the patronage of Madame Miolan-Carvalho.

One day I said to her: "The time may come when you will be giving concerts." She was indignant.
"Nevertheless," I continued, "let me teach you a sure encore." I played her Stephen Foster's immortal ditty.

She was delighted.

The sequel was that it served her even a better turn than it had served Adelina Patti.
I played and transposed for the piano most of the melodies of Foster as they were published, they being first produced in public by Christy's Minstrels.
IV Stephen Foster was the ne'er-do-well of a good Pennsylvania family.