HE COULD PLAY IT.
Vv hen Lord Armstrong, a year or two ago, constructed several vessels to the order of th 3 Chinese Government, a considerable number cf Chinamen were imported into the neighbourhood of Newcastle-on-Tyne. During their brief location in that city, one or two of them died, and were buried in the churchyard at Elswick. Tlie other week two Northumbrian pitmen were wandering amongst the tombstones’in that burial place, when they chanced upon that erected over the graves of the departed Chinamen, For a while they surveyed with puzzled countenances the strange and mysterious characters inscribed upon the stone Then one of them turning to his £ marrow,’ exclaimed : ‘ Man Geordie, ye’re a better scbollar nor me ; ye might tell us what that steyn says.’
George scratched his head in a bewildered fashion for some minutes, and then as though fired by a sudden inspiration, he replied ; ‘ Aadoobt aa canna read it ; buf, man, if an had me fiddle here aa could play it.’
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Wairoa Bell, Volume IV, Issue 154, 15 July 1892, Page 6
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165HE COULD PLAY IT. Wairoa Bell, Volume IV, Issue 154, 15 July 1892, Page 6
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