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Scan 17
The violin maker, 1905
10 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 11. See the scan on archive.org.
1In another moment Matthias would have thrown himself on his knees before the famous violin maker, whose instruments enjoyed such well-deserved fame, but Stainer perceived his intention and prevented him.
3"Wilt thou promise to be a good, industrious scholar?" he asked, with an earnest look.
5"I will promise anything, sir!" cried the boy, with glad, tremulous lips. "I will do anything for you—I will go through fire and water for you—only take me with you, I beg with all my heart!"
7Stainer found more and more to attract him in the bright, wide-awake lad, who talked so sensibly and pleasingly for his years, and whose whole bearing showed that he would prove a satisfactory scholar. The violin maker took the hammer from his girdle where he carried it and handed it to the boy, with these words:
9"Here! Take this and make thy first trial. If it succeeds, then art thou my dear scholar from this day. Strike once on a tree near thee, and then lay thine ear near to its trunk. Thou must listen attentively and then tell me
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