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Scan 20
The violin maker, 1905
6 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 14. See the scan on archive.org.
1which time the little Matthias had repeatedly gladdened the heart of Stainer with proofs of his quickness of apprehension—they turned again to the goats, who, left to themselves, without their keeper, had been bounding and springing among the rocks. Stainer accompanied the boy and his little herd to the town, and, as it was already dark when he reached it, he promised to call the next day at the house of the tailor, Klotz, to discuss the future of Matthias.
3The boy hastened with eager joy to his parents to tell them what had happened to him that day in the forest. The father listened with the utmost astonishment to what his son said, and the mother heard, with a glad heart, the words that flowed from her boy's lips; he spoke so enthusiastically of the master from Absam he seemed to recall a messenger from heaven.
5"Child," said his father, at last, "if all this is true, then is the inmost wish of my heart about to be fulfilled so speedily that I know not how to thank our dear God and all the saints for it."
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