Songs of Other Days 231 



bodies fiddled his way into parliament. He wasn't 

 much on oratory, but he could fiddle a little better 

 than any man in his county, and so they sent him 

 to parliament. 



To-day nearly every farmhouse has a piano or 

 organ or gramophone but this king of all musical 

 instruments is not so much in evidence as it once 

 was, and more's the pity that it should be so. 



A poet of the olden days writing of the long 

 winters on the farm, ended up some verses on the 

 subject in this way: 



* "What's the use of whinin' 



All the winter through, 

 'Cause the sun ain't shinin' 

 Like it used to do? 

 Ain't we got the fiddle, 

 Full of old delights, 

 Sashayin' down the middle 

 Of the winter nights." 



