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Since the invention of the metal reed, however, which, under various modifications and combinations, supplies the sole utterance of the harmonicon, celestina, seraphina, colophon, accordian, concertina, &c. &c. and which does away with the necessity for pipes, the street hand-organ has assumed a different and infinitely worse character.
They wanted to know where he and his squaw had learned to make a home like this, where he got so much of civilization, who had taught his squaw to keep house, who played the accordian, where he got tools to work with, and many other things; above all, where he bought certain accessories to his cabin which they had never seen in Dawson.
"An' is that by way of defince of Captain Bartle Flanagan?" inquired Rouser Redhead, indignantly. "An' so our worthy captain sint the man across that punished our inimy, even accordian to your own provin', an' that by staggin' aginst him. Of coorse, had the miser's son been one of huz, Bartle's brains would be scattered to the four quarthers of heaven long agone."
"Tessie and Effie and Cherry and Allee " "And Peace is to whistle," put in the small cherub with sisterly loyalty. "Aw, a girls' crowd! There ain't any boys in it." "You'll make one if you will turn summersets. And we thought you might get Jimmie to play the bones for us, and p'r'aps Lute Dunbar might bring over his accordian.
They had listened the evening before to the old accordian in the hands of Pete's wife; they had trotted the infant of the family on their knees; they had propounded another hundred questions to their uncommunicative host and gotten monosyllabic answers; but they had heard only that which was good to hear, and that which confirmed the leader in his mind that he had made a capital move in coming into this country with the Indians.
"A filthy hole in the ground was what I thought we'd find," declared another. "We're right in civilization!" exclaimed a fourth, slapping his knee in delight. "A music box, as I live!" eyeing an old accordian in a corner. "Well, I snum!" The men were all talking at once. "I'd like to take a smoke, but don't dare," said Tom MacDougall, demurely, with a wink.
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