excerpt from 'Account of life as a chorister in the nineteenth century' pp. 7 (195 words)
excerpt from 'Account of life as a chorister in the nineteenth century' pp. 7 (195 words)
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There was one of the biggest men I every [sic] saw in the [St George's Chapel] Choir while I was there named Salmon & a joke went the round once that Mr Mitchell organist of Eton made a rather heavy bet when talking of fishing & bet that he would go down to the river & in half an hour catch the biggest salmon that had every been taken. He induced Mr Salmon to go & bathe & in due course landed him & won the bet. Mr Salmon had a powerful bass voice, & was rather a lazy man I thought, as he used to give me 6d a month to hang his hat on its peg & hand him his surplice. Then we had also a very small man in the Choir named Turner possessing a very sweet alto voice & I remember when he used to sing the verse in the Psalms “I am small & of no reputation” we used to look slyly at him as did also several of the men, & he always looked most uncomfortable as did also another named Hart when we sang the verse “He maketh my feet like Hart’s feet”. |
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