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Scan 14
The violin maker, 1905
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1One morning in June of the year 1663 a man went, climbing and scrambling, through the forest which lies behind Mittenwald, toward Scharnitz-in-the-Tyrol. He was in the prime of life, tall and strong of frame, and of a shrewd, intelligent countenance. He carried in his right hand an iron hammer with a short handle, and with it he tapped now one and now another of the tall trees—giant pines and firs which towered on high like church steeples—placing his ear to their trunks and listening to the sounds his hammer awakened as they trembled into silence. Often he shook his head and murmured to himself, dissatisfied; but each time a tree answered to the call of the hammer with a ringing sound he marked its bark with a certain sign.
3This search in the depths of the silent forest had continued for several hours, when the height of the sun in the heavens, its full strength beating upon the mountain slope, warned him that it was time to rest. He had scarcely seated himself on a stone, cushioned with soft moss, when he heard the clear sound of a small bell, and, looking around, saw some goats clattering down
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