mikerscope

Updated: June 3, 2025

Sometimes it would be a big book he'd lug home, and sometimes it would be a mikerscope, and sometimes it would be a dreadful old-lookin' fiddle that he'd picked up somewhere, and kept a-screechin' on, sayin' all the while that it was jest as smooth as a flute.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 13, November, 1858