various fancy versions of `` happy birthday '' began to be repractised , so the ever-present dan nuts , gracing all with his sainted mysterious loner presence ( bet you 'll never guess how he was doing that ) , leaped in to jovially contribute : `` just a snatch of a song , not a short one nor too long , right to celebrate the gladsome tidin 's of a lie-dee reaching the austere autumnal auge of ?