INSPIRING THEME.
The people of the Greek Islands have a time-honoured custom of lamenting the death of friends with music by professional mourners. A lady of Mykonos gave an account of such a wake to the author of ‘ Life Among the Insular 11 reeks. ’ Her uncle, who was a merchant at Marseilles, ami who died there, was determined to have music at his death, ami he asked his wife to sing over his corpse. She, poor woman ’. pleaded that she bad been so many years in a foreign land that she had quite forgotten what to say ami do. ‘Go fetch my ledger,’ said the dying man, sternly ; ' there you will find put down all I have earned. Sing that!’
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume V, Issue 41, 11 October 1890, Page 19
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120INSPIRING THEME. New Zealand Graphic, Volume V, Issue 41, 11 October 1890, Page 19
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