Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875, Dulcken, H. W. (Henry William), 1832-1894, Bayes, Alfred Walter, 1832-1909, ill · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 860
tes, one a deep and mournful one, and the other high andpiercing. These notes he continually repeated, and sometimes playedthem at night for hours together. They had tried to take his flute fromhim, but then he would become as furious as a wild animal; though,when it was returned to him, he at once… … THE OLD PEASANT. to the ticking of a clock, or the clang of a blacksmiths hammer, whenthe blacksmith has been his neighbour for years. I went back to my room and locked the door; but the two notes otthe flute rang in my ears : they sounded like the distant creaking of aweathercock turned by the…
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