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The Violin: A concise exposition of the general principles of construction.., 1871
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1of noble life, is something not very frequently met with.—Argosy.
3The Dance of David.—Having, in all probability, already taxed the patience of the reader with fiddles and fiddling, sacred and secular, let us now—previous to parting company—conclude with the dance. "An elder, who is also precentor in a Free Church not fifty miles from Inverness, lately attended the marriage of his eldest son, and in the evening, joined the young couple and others in a reel, by way of leading off the dance. This having come to the ears of the other elders of the church, they held a conclave, to which David was summoned. He made a full confession, and has been suspended from his office of precentor for three calendar months. David has been an elder and precentor for twenty years. So much the more reason, argued the kirk-session, why he ought to know better than to make merry at his son's marriage."—Inverness Courier, April 1870.
5Punch gives the following comment upon the foregoing.
7"Elder David, the precentor, his son's wedding dance attended,
8Elder David, the precentor, from his office was suspended.
9Though old David, the Psalmist, danced, we know, 'fore the ark,
10Elder David, the precentor, must not dance for the lark.
11Let the fate of elder David, the precentor, in terrorem,
12Hang o'er the heads of elders when they list to 'Tulloch-gorum;'
13But one point in the punishment appropriate one feels,
14That such elders, when suspended, be suspended by the heels!"
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