A GENTLEMAN ORGAN GRIN DEE.
A gentleman organ grinder lias made his appearance in the streets of Ddblin, and created no little sensation. The Dublin Freeman says of him : —"About one o'clock a handsomely-caparisoned donkey, drawing a neat cue, entered Sackville street by Carlisle bridge, at the head of a large crowd, who seemed fascinated by the performance of an elderly personage seated in the vehicle and solemnly grinding the ' Boys of Kilkenny ' from a small organ. The mysterious player took the triumphal progress quite as a matter of course, and was not in the least disturbed when a couple of policemen informed him that he caused a public obstruction, and must ' clear off.' He calmly defied the conStables, and, changing his measure, drowned both their threats and remonstrances in a lively discord of ' Eory O'More.' The ' gentleman ' player sceuied a man of about 46 years, of decidedly well-bred features and presence. He was dressed in excellent quiet taste, and, '?£ really out of his sphere, comported himself in his unaccustomed situation with the repose and sang fro'ul supposed to mark the mau of high social caste. Indeed, so far from looking at e'tl uueasy or abashed, lie Kept rather a marked eye upon the public pence, and seemed altogether as though his occupation were pursued much more for profit than pastime. He drew quite a fashionable congregation, among whom were several ladies. Tins audience attended the performer as ho moved impertuvbably and slowly on. The belief was freely expressed that ho was, beyond doubt, ' a gentleman,' and had no object in his melodious vagrancy but to w.-'i a big wager. The better class of those who followed his donkey cart partly sympathized with the pleasant eccentricity of the 'gentleman,' but were evidently rather ashaned of him for letting himself dow a to a rather suggestive level. The mixsd herd of cabmen, idle laborers, and street Arabs entered more uureservcdly into the form and condesceusiou of the thing, and cheered ' his honor' most vociferously. The grinder look the attention of the crowd with the same cold hauteur of mauuer, except when they gave him a copper. Ho never failed to acknowledge the coin, but more as a tribute than a bounty. The amor Mt bestowed, however, dur'Ug the forenoon was small, but his perambulation will, no doubt, result profitably. It is a question whether he w'U be allowed to accomplish it, for the crowd, when we saw him last, had grown to most iuconvenient proportions.. They filled the pavement and half of tba causeway, the giiuder grading serenely in their midst, and two dogged policemen between. It was Orpheus pursued by tho Euirien'des."
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Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1155, 3 March 1874, Page 2
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442A GENTLEMAN ORGAN GRIN DEE. Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1155, 3 March 1874, Page 2
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