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Updated: August 10, 2024
The shooters, with their numbers placed in a wreath around their hats, waiting to take their turn. Here was music and song, hurdy-gurdys and wind instruments, cries and confusion.
"My name is Hildegardis Graham!" said Hilda in her most icy manner, what Madge Everton used to call her Empress-of-Russia-in-the-ice-palace-with-the-mercury-sixty-degrees-below-zero manner. "Huldy Gardies!" repeated Farmer Hartley. "Well, that's a comical name now! Sounds like Hurdy-gurdys, doosn't it? Where did Mis' Graham pick up a name like that, I wonder?
I at once pulled out my sketch-book and drew them; there are angels with fiddles, angels with viols no, not hurdy-gurdys! but twanged with the fingers, angels with pipes and horns, one with a harp, two with portable organs of ten pipes in each, two angels with bagpipes with single drones. Conceive of a salutation on bagpipes from the celestial choir!
In spite of its quaint mediævalism, it seemed to Milly quite human, the gathering together of suffering, sinning human beings around the gray chapel on the storm-beaten coast "Our Lady of the Guard" their prayers, the absolution granted by the robed priests, and the going forth to another year of trials and temptations, efforts and sins.... Just below the chapel, withdrawn only a few feet from the religious ceremony, was a cluster of tents, sheltering hurdy-gurdys, merry-go-rounds, cook-shops, and cider plenty of cider.
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