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I have studied music as a science I have reviewed an opera and once met Sir Henry Bishop at the Chinese exhibition; and I will make bold to say, that more genius was never shown by Rossini or Cherubini, than you have displayed on this stupendous and interesting occasion. Allow me, Mr Slingo, to shake your hand."
She saw Fanchon and Penrod assume the double embrace required by the dance; the "Slingo Sligo Slide" burst from the orchestra like the lunatic shriek of a gin-maddened nigger; and all the little couples began to bob and dip and sway. Marjorie made a scene. She sprang upon the platform and stamped her foot. "Penrod Schofield!" she shouted. "You BEHAVE yourself!"
Other parents and guardians were with them, coming for their children; and there were carriages and automobiles waiting in the street. But the "Slingo Slide" went on, regardless. The group of grown-up people hesitated and came to a halt, gazing at the pavilion. "What are they doing?" gasped Mrs. Williams, blushing deeply. "What is it? What IS it?" "WHAT IS IT?" Mrs.
When the ingenious musician withdrew the bull's horn from his mouth, and paused after his labours in a state of extreme calefaction, murmurs of applause ran all round the room. "Mr Slingo," said Mr Bristles, "Mr Slingo, you have immortalized yourself, by evoking the soul of Handel from so common an instrument as an ox's horn.
"Pray, Mr Slingo," she said taking the horn, and examining it very closely, "do you know what animal we are indebted to for this delicious instrument?" "I took it from the head of a brown cow." "A cow! ha!" exclaimed the lady "but I could have told you so before.
"We ought to liven them up a little!" She approached the musicians. "Don't you know," she asked the leader, "the Slingo Sligo Slide?" The leader giggled, nodded, rapped with his bow upon his violin; and Penrod, following Fanchon back upon the dancing floor, blindly brushed with his elbow a solitary little figure standing aloof on the lawn at the edge of the platform. It was Marjorie.
At length, after another interval of successorship to Mrs Bangham, he found a pursuit for himself, and announced it. 'Amy, I have got a situation. 'Have you really and truly, Tip? 'All right. I shall do now. You needn't look anxious about me any more, old girl. 'What is it, Tip? 'Why, you know Slingo by sight? 'Not the man they call the dealer? 'That's the chap.
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