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Scan 26
The violin maker, 1905
10 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 20. See the scan on archive.org.
1completed; it needed only to be dried and strung. The violin hung in the master's little garden near several others that were drying.
3The master went out in the garden to look at them. But, strangely enough, he did not see them; he looked only at the ground, and it seemed as if he were counting the grains of sand in the garden path. Suddenly he raised his head and looked into the air with a peculiar and gloomy expression. Dangling before his eyes, in all their newness and freshness, he saw the violins. A wild look flashed across his face, his eyes rolled, and he threw himself upon them with a shrill cry:
5"Help! help! They will die! Oh, the poor, poor fellows!"
7And in a moment he had gathered the violins together and flung them to the ground, many of them falling upon the stones and breaking into pieces; among these was the work of little Matthias.
9The shriek of the master had brought the workmen together, for they believed that some misfortune had befallen him. And it was, in-
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