“Have you got your flute with you?′ ‘Yes,’ he returned. ‘Have a blow at it,’ said the old woman, coaxingly. ‘Do!’ The Master, upon this, put his hand underneath the skirts of his coat, and brought out his flute in three pieces, which he screwed together, and began immediately to play. My impression is, after many years of consideration, that there never can have been anybody in the world who played worse.”
