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Chapter 5 - (VERSO)

181(begin strikethrough)4(end strikethrough)521              9

what use was it to be taking any account of old Abel’s queer speeches? Though, to be sure, there was no great harm in a fiddle, and maybe Mr. Leonard was a mite too strict that way with the child. But then, could you wonder at it? There was his father, you see.

Felix finally lowered the violin, and came back to old Abel’s kitchen with a long sigh. Old Abel smiled drearily at him—the smile of a man who has been in the hands of the tormentors.

“It’s awful the way you play—it’s awful,” he said with a shudder. “I never heard anything like it—and you that never had any teaching since you were nine years


TEXT ANNOTATION

Another page from "Each in His Own Tongue." This time, the mysterious 4-corrected-to-a-5 is in the middle of the string of numbers.