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Wanted Time To Tell

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Parent Issue
Day
12
Month
August
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Many years ago, when printed music was dearer than it Is now, a quiet old man, evidently from the country, went into a music shop and asked to see a certain book of tunes. The assistant laid before him an oblong volume with two tunes on a page - a book familiar to old-time cholr singers. The old man drew out of his coattail pocket an ancient yellow flfe, and opening the book at the first page began to play softly, turning the leaf with careful flngers as each page was flnished. The assistants, very much amused at flrst, grew weary of the droning noise after a time, and one of them, walting till a tune was ended, ventured to say, politely, "Do you think you will take the book. sir? Does it seem to suit you?" The fife was lowered, and the player, looking over it at the youth in surprise, said gently: "I cannot teil; I have played only half the tunes." And he placidly turned another leaf. - Weeklv Telegraph.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Register