peasant-voice

Updated: June 28, 2025

Sometimes, when he could not play fast enough to satisfy his eagerness, he ran his finger up and down the vents. Then, suddenly lowering his instrument, he would scream, in a strong peasant-voice, verse after verse of the novena, to the accompaniment of the zampogna.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859