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Voice and violin: sketches, anecdotes, and reminiscences by T.L. Phipson, 1898
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1during which the farm caught fire. Before they could escape, both father and mother perished in the smoke and flames, and in an incredibly short space of time everything was destroyed.
3The two children, by a wonderful miracle, were saved. They rushed from the burning building, instinctively carrying with them the violin and tambourine on which they had been playing that same evening. Of the whole property nothing else escaped destruction—a violin and a tambourine, with a few articles of clothing, represented all that was left of that happy little homestead!
5After a period of intense grief and misery, which I shall not attempt to describe, the two poor children wandered from village to village, gaining their daily bread, and sometimes a night's lodging, by their music.
7The Hungarian dances and military marches, vigorously performed by the lad, and cleverly accompanied by his pretty sister, who was a very handsome child, though somewhat frail, appeared everywhere to give great pleasure to those who heard them. But it was a hard and very precarious livelihood.
9Giorgi, who was powerfully built, and enjoyed robust health, would have been equal to any amount of fatigue and privations; but his delicate sister Liza suffered much, and misery soon told its unvarnished tale upon those pallid features,
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