A STREET SCENE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 733, 4 February 1910, Page 3

A STREET SCENE.

r y: y ( . t <! '!People ■ who- don't;;;kn'ow'.-think',';it's" i easy:. .But' here''you.are,- if-anyone can- •' play, the: instruments';tHey can.havethem.': . ! Fair-'enough,";' isn't -.it?":'Easyrrwell,' I don't'. find : , it, very easy..Bough; on•, the ■' K.ody. / Sometimes J ,:only'. Eet( two nights' sleep in; : the;week.'';.'TMt's lively," ain't- .-I it? ; The. whole"hox ; o' tricks 'for,anyonej > 1 frho'.will.play .'em!" '. . •"•i There •• was 'no" responsie from' the.'mildly' , : interested /ero,wd.;_that' stood in the . foot-, ■ path, outside' a,city 'hotel,, watching the; preparaitionsVbf'an .itinerant street musi-cian,-who, attired in ' a; garish; uniform, of ; no * particular '/significance, • sought r sym- ' pathy.-.aid ■coii' i '.by these': novel - methods.' [stood! , :beside.'.a\coloured ' drum, .and ' standing ;on .a oarpet, reeled off -his discontentment at tlio lot which forced. : music from him.. . • ; ,• "Look,: 'ere. is. a comb—just.-a bit of' i steel.' comb—you, can. have,the violin' or any, other, instrument,' (but' the. sweetest tones can . be ;produced' from : this bit of comb. 1 ,I'can sqimds' from it, but • it. takes ■ 6ome playing.'- .Then when I•. play; jiti-Kignorant'.'people.''.&f-it .ain't.,..a)icomb,.%:■ .Toii-can see 'it.» with'. your•, own eyes.'Well, defes , nobody. ,want' to'.'have:/a cut—it's, ! easy—l don't think'". , . '■■ :■' . . with that ;he; removed, his boots, : tied sticks to both, feet to beat the .drum and a ..triangle,;.'took, an accordeon-on; his ', knee, - and, " placing-1 the • paper-wrapped' comb ;on'ythe top of',,the accordeon, 1 and let it'go., .Thenjthe -crowd moved off. •'