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Clar'nets were not made for the service of the Lard; you can see it by looking at 'em, I said. And what came o't? Why, souls, the parson set up a barrel-organ on his own account within two years o' the time I spoke, and the old quire went to nothing." "As far as look is concerned," said the tranter, "I don't for my part see that a fiddle is much nearer heaven than a clar'net. 'Tis further off.
There's always a rakish, scampish twist about a fiddle's looks that seems to say the Wicked One had a hand in making o'en; while angels be supposed to play clar'nets in heaven, or som'at like 'em, if ye may believe picters." "Robert Penny, you was in the right," broke in the eldest Dewy. "They should ha' stuck to strings.
"Clar'nets, however, be bad at all times," said Michael Mail. "One Christmas years agone now, years I went the rounds wi' the Weatherbury quire.
An icicle o' spet hung down from the end of every man's clar'net a span long; and as to fingers well, there, if ye'll believe me, we had no fingers at all, to our knowing." "I can well bring back to my mind," said Mr. 'Joseph, I said, says I, 'depend upon't, if so be you have them tooting clar'nets you'll spoil the whole set-out.
'Twas a hard frosty night, and the keys of all the clar'nets froze ah, they did freeze! so that 'twas like drawing a cork every time a key was opened; and the players o' 'em had to go into a hedger-and-ditcher's chimley-corner, and thaw their clar'nets every now and then.
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