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Why, he saved a little girl, father, from a cross old organ-man, and he drove that man oh! you ought to have seen him run!" And now that it was over, Jasper put back his head and laughed long and loud as he remembered the rapid transit of the musical pair. "Well, how do you know she wasn't the man's daughter?" asked his father, determined to find fault someway.
"Well," said the old gentleman, pausing in his walk, and taking out his watch to wonder if that paper would ever come, "she had probably followed the organ-man; so it served her right after all."
The notion that the nature of an Italian organ-man was irrevocably growing and burgeoning inside him was almost more than the kindly old professor could bear. There was Mr. Benjamin Kidd, who said that the growing note of our race would be the care for and knowledge of the future.
It was hard to give up the Homeric illusion, and believe that Greeks were men, not demigods hard to recognise in the organ-man and the opera-singer the descendants of those heroes portrayed in the poetic pictures of a Virgil; and yet in the days of my dreamy youth, when I turned my face to the West, I did so under the full conviction that the land of prose was before me and the land of poetry behind my back!
"Let's hurry it through and have the organ-man play for a dance afterward," suggested the ingenious Georgia Ames. "He'd surely throw that in for the five dollars." "Better have him play between the acts too," put in somebody else. "There's nothing like getting your money's worth." "And we'll pay him all in pennies," added Polly gleefully. "We can take turns handing them out to the monkey.
For streamers of violet fog blew up its streets from the sea, and a wild light from behind the farthest cliff struck across its green roofs and gilded weather-vanes. Just as they drew up to the quay they heard a tinkling sound of music and much laughter; and an organ-man with a monkey came spilling out of one of the little streets, followed by a crowd of clapping children.
Any city was a wide-eyed place to Sara; so what of the wonder of a fairy city? To be sure, many of them were foreign-looking, like the ones who followed the organ-man, and in other ways, too; still, as Zinariola was a seaport, it was very cosmopolitan, and one saw all sorts of people on its streets.
"Why, father!" exclaimed Edith. "Nobody?" "The woman was engaged in business. She was a beggar, and the sick, half-starved baby was her capital in trade," replied Mr. Dinneford. "That policeman had no more authority to arrest her than he had to arrest the organ-man or the peanut-vender." "But somebody should see after a poor baby like that. Is there no law to meet such cases?"
Instantly the little creature went into a transport of delight. Bounding to the boy's breast, it clung there so closely that Gabriel gave up the experiment that he had intended of trying to show the organ-man how his slave could dance. Rising, Gabriel held the panting Topaz in his arms. "I declare," he said aloud, "I declare this to be the princess's lost dog."
Perhaps we mark the music with the hand, or walk differently, or begin to sing with it. In one way or another the music will make us do something that shows its power. I have seen in many European towns a group of children about the organ-man, dancing or singing as he played and enjoying every tune to the utmost.
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