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I suppose we must have you, Smithson one flute will be enough. The 310th will furnish two violins and a 'cello. That ought to make a strong band." The men who did not play stringed instruments, or such as were suitable for a ball-room, looked disappointed; and Sergeant Brumpton, as he sat with his huge instrument between his legs, looked down into its great brass bell-mouth and sighed.
He looked round, twinkling, for a laugh to follow what he meant for a joke; and the obsequious bandsmen uttered a sniggering kind of concreted grin, followed instantly by a loud-toned sonorous Phoomp! from the huge bell-mouth of the contra-bass. "What do you mean by that, Banks?" cried the bandmaster, as soon as there was silence, for the men had burst into a loud and general roar.
Cranceford old Billy's letter." "Won't it alarm her?" the Englishman asked. "Oh, not in the least," the Major answered, and old Gid smiled. "You couldn't scare her with a bell-mouth blunderbuss," he declared. The Major now had reached the door, but turning back he said: "You gentlemen better sleep here to-night." In a state of apparent alarm the Englishman sprang to his feet. "My bath," he cried.
Major stood swaying upon the threshold of the dining-room he reached the angle; peered round it; in horror sighted Bill's figure pendant from Margaret's window. Thrice the bell-mouth of his gun described a shivering circle; tightly he squeezed his eyelids pressed the trigger. Mr. Marrapit bounded six inches hardly reached the earth again when, with a startled scream, Mrs.
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