"IN THE STILLY NIGHT."
THE ITRIA'S LAMENTATION,
About 11.15, last- evening' .'tho air in. the ' vicinity: of;the -' British ; India Steam Navigation Company's Itria was rent -by . the piercing: wail of the f bag:pipe's:;; investigating the. source of, the ".coroitach," a member of The Dominion reporting staff located the instrument; under;' the arm of a burly Scotchman, who was-Solemnly, parading up and down the. ; deck on the port side. - It was a wail right enough, for further elicited the.. doleful statement ■tliatf it ■' night in port—. occasion; ; for •. appropriate, 'lamentation.. The musician had :■ the. deck to himself—his friends had fled to their .bunks, .and buried . , their heads beneath, tho blankets, at the first, premonitory -gasp of'. the ■ - 'chanter," while."every , good Mussulman in tho crow' had, girded up. his-, loins, -.'and. departed as fast. ae nis; legs , could carry him. ■' ■ ■ ■■
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 924, 17 September 1910, Page 4
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138"IN THE STILLY NIGHT." Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 924, 17 September 1910, Page 4
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