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Fifth Avenue peasant with diamonds in her hair. Becomin' to her, ain't it." "I thought so." "Yup. She looks pretty enough! But she don't need diamonds nor hand-organ clothes to make her pretty." Then, looking up from the photograph, he asked, "Give you this picture, did she?" His friend's embarrassment increased. "No," he answered shortly. Then, after an instant's hesitation.
"Oh, a hand-organ!" somebody shouted, and they flocked to the windows. "And he's got a monkey!" squealed Brida. "Oh, that's 'count o' my birthday!" cried the happy Elsie. "I do wish he'd come up here!" Her words floated down to the organ grinder, and at once he allowed the monkey more length of cord.
It was late in the afternoon and Peace and Allee were standing by the window watching the sinking sun, when a ragged, stooped, old man trailed down the quiet street with a battered, wheezy, old hand-organ strapped to his back and a wizened, wistful-eyed, peaked-faced child at his heels.
"I've been infatuated from time to time," I answers, "with fancy ramifications of grub such as terrapins, lobsters, reed birds, jambolaya, and canvas-covered ducks; but after all there's nothing less displeasing to me than a beefsteak smothered in mushrooms on a balcony in sound of the Broadway streetcars, with a hand-organ playing down below, and the boys hollering extras about the latest suicide.
An old woman was sitting at the corner, grinding a hand-organ, and as the robber ran past her, he dropped one of the rings into her cup. "Oh, dad," Mary had said, looking up and speaking on impulse, "did I hear you say last night that Burdon Woodward was in New York?" "No, dear. Boston." "Mm," thought Mary. "He'd say he was going to Boston for a blind."
It seems hard to think of his going round like a hand-organ man, with such music and such thought as his to earn his bread with. One can't help wishing that Mr. Pugh could have got at him for a single lecture, at least, of the "Star Course," or that he could have appeared in the Music Hall, "for this night only."
"There is a real difference, then?" said Indiman, thoughtfully. "One that you would recognize again?" "At any place or time," I answered, confidently. "It is an absolute means of identification, quite as much so as a glass eye would be in a man's face." "Very good. We'll find that hand-organ, then, if we have to go through 'Little Italy' with a drag-net.
Some said the Devil had come and carried him off, just as he nightly did Mr. Punch. Frowsy, little, shock-headed Mariano didn't feel so awfully bad when his father died, because his father used to make him turn the hand-organ all day, and half the night, and take up the collections; and the fond parent used to cuff him when there were less than ten coppers in the tambourine.
The violin and piano are excellent, but on some accounts the hand-organ is the best of all. Feeble and apathetic people, who have little courage to undertake gymnastic training, accomplish wonders under the inspiration of music. I believe three times as much muscle can be coaxed out, with this delightful stimulus, as without it.
I should like to see you dance, and I'd dance with you if you would, for nobody would know who I was here, and I should like to be your partner once more. We used to jump about together many a time, did not we? when the hand-organ was in the street? I am a pretty good dancer in my way, but I dare say you are a better."
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