"Alan had heard every word."
"He placed the 'drum' on a chair, and practised diligently."
HAYDN'S DRUM.
'What is to be done? Nothing could be more inconvenient. Easter-time, and so much new music to be played!'
Master Frank Haydn, Master of the Orchestra at the parish church of Hamburg, in Southern Germany, all but tore his brown wig in his despair, at hearing of the death of the man who played the kettle-drum in his orchestra.
'I know of no one to take his place at such short notice,' he went on, though there were only his wife and little nephew to hear him.