![[choir sleeping]](https://i0.wp.com/www.wgma.org.uk/Resources/Literary/Authors/Hardy/Green%20illustration.jpg)
pub. in Thomas Hardy’s “Wessex Folk” (subsequently renamed “A Few Crusted Characters”)
in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine Vol. 81 (May 1891)
Image scanned by Philip V. Allingham for the Victorian Web
A friend drew my attention to the Thomas Hardy short story Absent-mindedness
in a parish choir. It’s one of the surviving depictions of a
West Gallery choir at the end of
the era.
If I left my serpent like that one (the cello bow is even
worse), I wouldn’t have one long.
LayMusic.org 