A Fig for Fiddles.
The bandmaster on the little Plumpten pier had' been a trifle dubious as to the ability "of the new Scottish trombone-player he had just engaged, but the man himself seemed confident of success, and so he got the billet. After the first; performance the hrawriy Scot inquired if he had not acquitted himself in style. «» "Well." said the conductor, "you've done pretty fair; but perhaps you'll do better to-morrow night." The new-comer eyed him scornfully. "Man," he replied, "ye ken the music is a* strange tae me as yet, an* I'm no jist shair o't; but you wait tae the morn s nieht, an' I'll warrant yell no hear ane o' thae bloomin' fiddles at a' !"
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Otago Witness, Issue 2849, 21 October 1908, Page 91
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120A Fig for Fiddles. Otago Witness, Issue 2849, 21 October 1908, Page 91
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