HE PLAYED IT.

Golden Bay Argus, Volume VI, Issue 72, 14 October 1897, Page 2

HE PLAYED IT.

Among the inhabitants of a country village in the West Riding wt re a goodly number of folk whom Apollo had inspired to tune a variety of instruments of music, both for strings and wind, as well as to make melody with the voico. And so it came to pass that these good people were determined to give a concert. A conductor was invited from a nrighbouring town, and after much practising a night was fixed, and the event, came off. Among the attractions was an orchestral piece, which everybody was looking forward to with mti use pleasure. All went in splendid style ti l the fourth movement, an adagio. In the middle of this trombone, all by himself, gavo out a souud almost loud enough to blow the roof off. The audience was staitled, while the conductor looked furious, and when the grand finale of the piece was reached, he took the trombone player to task, and blew him up sky-high tor such erratic conduct. “ Why,” said the man, by way of apology, “ah thowt it wur a nooat, an’ it wur nobbut a fly—but ah plaayed it !”