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And after wiping his enormous boots very, very carefully on the mat, the great man passed into the house. INSIDE we found my father busy practising on the flute beside the fire. This he always did, every evening, after his work was over. The Doctor immediately began talking to him about flutes and piccolos and bassoons; and presently my father said,
"It's a strathspey the first cousin to a hornpipe." If Celia's whistling put the piccolos out of commission, Thomas McLeod's surely made the biggest flutes hunt their holes. He could actually whistle bass. When he stopped Celia was ready to jump into his delivery wagon and ride with him clear to the end of the pier and on to the ferry-boat of the Charon line.
As the afternoon wore on little airs began to play in the tree-tops; the street watering carts had been assiduous, and before the terrace water had been sprinkled by the piccolos so effectively that at five o'clock, when the jaded stock-brokers, journalists, and business men began to flock in, each for his apéritif, the café was comparatively cool.
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