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Updated: May 6, 2025
Six tunes were given with the orchestrome; each tune was on a slip of perforated paper, and all you had to do was to put in a slip and touch the spring. We tried it first with "The Dandy Coloured Coon." It certainly played something, but it was not right. There was no recognizable tune about it. "This won't do at all," I said. "Perhaps that tune's got bent or something," said Eliza.
The other lady was young, and very pretty, but with a scornful kind of amused expression, and a drawling way of speaking both of which I disliked extremely. "Edith," said Lady Sandlingbury, "here's this angry gentleman going to put us both in prison for selling him a bad orchestrome. He says it won't work." "Doesn't matter, does it?" said the other lady.
"I don't think much of that Miss Sakers," I said. "Why should we go to this expense," pointing to the cakes, "for a woman of that kind?" The orchestrome was on Lady Sandlingbury's stall at the bazaar. Her ladyship came up to Eliza in the friendliest way, and said, "My dear lady, I am convinced that you need an orchestrome.
There you are! Now you can be happy, and go and spend your money." I thanked her. She took the orchestrome and started it, and it played magnificently. Nothing could have been more perfect. "These things do better," she said, "when you don't put the tunes in wrong end first, so that the instrument plays them backwards." "I think your ladyship might have told me that before," I said.
Eliza wouldn't come with me. "I beg your ladyship's pardon," I said, "but your ladyship supplied me with this orchestrome, and your ladyship will have to take it back again." "Dear me! what's all the trouble?" I started the instrument, and let her hear for herself. She smiled, and turned to another lady who was helping her.
It's the sweetest instrument in the world, worth at least five pounds, and for one shilling you have a chance of getting it. It is to be raffled." Eliza objects, on principle, to anything like gambling; but as this was for the Deserving Inebriates, which is a good cause, she paid her shilling. She won the orchestrome, and I carried it home for her.
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