Under the Greenwood Tree; Or, The Mellstock Quire
Thomas Hardy · English
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Under the Greenwood Tree; Or, The Mellstock Quire
Thomas Hardy · English
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PREFACE This story of the Mellstock Quire and its old established west-gallery musicians, with some supplementary descriptions of similar officials in Two on a Tower, A Few Crusted Characters, and other places, is intended to be a fairly true picture, at first hand, of the personages, ways, and customs which were common among such orchestral bodies in the villages of fifty or sixty years ago. One is inclined to regret the displacement of these ecclesiastical bandsmen by an isolated
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