AN OLD MASTER.
« The auctioneer held up » battered fiddle. "What am I offered for this antique violin?" he pathetically inquired. "Look it over. Sec the blurred finger marks of remorseless time. Note tho stain of the hurrying years. To the merry notes of this fine old instrument tho brocaded dames of. fair France may have danced the minuet in glittering Versailles. Perhaps the Vestal Virgins marched to its stirring dithyrambs in the feasts of Lupercalia. > Ha! it bears an abrasion— perhaps a touch of fire! Why this may have been tho very fiddle on which Nefo played when Rome burned!" • "Thirty cents," said a red-nosed man in the front row. "It's yours!" cricd the auctioneer cheerfully. And then to his assistant: "Hand down those volumes of Government Agricultural Reports for 1879."— "Everybody's."
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1116, 2 May 1911, Page 6
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132AN OLD MASTER. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1116, 2 May 1911, Page 6
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