Trip 3835 of 4000 collection book15
By the industry of his understrapper he procured a numberbook11 of old crazy fiddles which were thrown aside asbook25 lumber upon which he counterfeited the Cremona mark and otherwise cooked them up with great dexterity so that when he had occasion to regale the lovers of music he would send for one of these vamped instruments and extract from it such tones as quite ravished the hearers among whom there was always some conceited pretender who spoke in raptures of the violin and gave our hero an opportunity of launching out in its praise and declaring it was the best Cremona he had ever touched.... read all
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