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Scan 18
The yellow violin, 1902
20 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 8. See the scan on archive.org.
1will not be afraid of me. I am on the look out for talent, and when I find it I do not always ask for pay. What makes you like the violin?"
3"I don't know, sir, unless it was mother's talking about my father—he died years ago—playing the violin. It seems as if I would give all the world to know how. I just love to look at it."
5"Would you mind giving me your name, my little girl?" and the man pulled a notebook from his pocket.
7"My name is Marie," she said, watching all his motions, with an undefined hope in her heart.
9The man held his pencil for a second and looked at her searchingly.
11"Sweetest Marie," he said almost under his breath.
13"Why, how did you know that, sir?" she asked, her face flushing.
15"Know what, my child?" he responded, now jotting down her answer upon his tablets.
17"That I was called sweetest Marie, at least that was always what my father called me. How could you know?"
19"Because I had a little girl once with just that name," said the man, calmly. "Curious, isn't it?"
The computer misreads some letters and numbers. Where a name matters to you, read the scan.