Scan 71
Voice and violin: sketches, anecdotes, and reminiscences by T.L. Phipson, 1898
12 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 53. See the scan on archive.org.
1member of a Hungarian gipsy band, and was the fortunate possessor of a fine violin made by the great Eberle of Prague.
3After his marriage he had settled down in this little farm, which existed since 1740 or thereabouts, and when his young son was about eight years of age he taught him to play the sparkling gipsy dance music with which he himself was so well acquainted.
5The heat of the summer ripened the corn, the rain and the mists from the Danube raised splendid pasturage, the cattle thrived, the cows yielded abundance of milk, and poultry multiplied wonderfully.
7During the dark winter months the sound of the Eberle violin enlivened the small household, and an occasional visitor or two, who had ventured on a stroll of five or six miles from the nearest village for the sake of a little gossip, a pipe of Giorgi's tobacco, and a glass of his beer.
9When he was nine or ten years of age, little Giorgi's playing was commented on by some of these stray visitors, and the young lad gained quite a reputation for his dash and boldness. His little sister was younger by two years, and used often to join in these performances by a kind of extempore accompaniment on the tambourine.
11The girl was eleven, and the boy thirteen, when one night in autumn there arose a storm of wind,
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