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My
friend
used
to
get
up
early
in
the
morning
to
practise
,
but
he
had
to
give
that
plan
up
,
because
of
his
sister
.
She
was
somewhat
religiously
inclined
,
and
she
said
it
seemed
such
an
awful
thing
to
begin
the
day
like
that
.
So
he
sat
up
at
night
instead
,
and
played
after
the
family
had
gone
to
bed
,
but
that
did
not
do
,
as
it
got
the
house
such
a
bad
name
.
People
,
going
home
late
,
would
stop
outside
to
listen
,
and
then
put
it
about
all
over
the
town
,
the
next
morning
,
that
a
fearful
murder
had
been
committed
at
Mr.
Jefferson
's
the
night
before
;
and
would
describe
how
they
had
heard
the
victim
's
shrieks
and
the
brutal
oaths
and
curses
of
the
murderer
,
followed
by
the
prayer
for
mercy
,
and
the
last
dying
gurgle
of
the
corpse
.
So
they
let
him
practise
in
the
day-time
,
in
the
back-kitchen
with
all
the
doors
shut
;
but
his
more
successful
passages
could
generally
be
heard
in
the
sitting-room
,
in
spite
of
these
precautions
,
and
would
affect
his
mother
almost
to
tears
.
She
said
it
put
her
in
mind
of
her
poor
father
(
he
had
been
swallowed
by
a
shark
,
poor
man
,
while
bathing
off
the
coast
of
New
Guinea
--
where
the
connection
came
in
,
she
could
not
explain
)
.
Then
they
knocked
up
a
little
place
for
him
at
the
bottom
of
the
garden
,
about
quarter
of
a
mile
from
the
house
,
and
made
him
take
the
machine
down
there
when
he
wanted
to
work
it
;
and
sometimes
a
visitor
would
come
to
the
house
who
knew
nothing
of
the
matter
,
and
they
would
forget
to
tell
him
all
about
it
,
and
caution
him
,
and
he
would
go
out
for
a
stroll
round
the
garden
and
suddenly
get
within
earshot
of
those
bagpipes
,
without
being
prepared
for
it
,
or
knowing
what
it
was
.
If
he
were
a
man
of
strong
mind
,
it
only
gave
him
fits
;
but
a
person
of
mere
average
intellect
it
usually
sent
mad
.
There
is
,
it
must
be
confessed
,
something
very
sad
about
the
early
efforts
of
an
amateur
in
bagpipes
.
I
have
felt
that
myself
when
listening
to
my
young
friend
.
They
appear
to
be
a
trying
instrument
to
perform
upon
.
You
have
to
get
enough
breath
for
the
whole
tune
before
you
start
--
at
least
,
so
I
gathered
from
watching
Jefferson
.
He
would
begin
magnificently
with
a
wild
,
full
,
come-to-the-battle
sort
of
a
note
,
that
quite
roused
you
.
But
he
would
get
more
and
more
piano
as
he
went
on
,
and
the
last
verse
generally
collapsed
in
the
middle
with
a
splutter
and
a
hiss
.
You
want
to
be
in
good
health
to
play
the
bagpipes
.
