Show what he most wished for john fiske the american historian was an ardent lover of music and him sell no man musician furthermore be was extremely corpulent and felt the hot weather painfully lie was a course of lectures at a summer school in a small city of the middle west the heat was and adjoining the house where the lecturer stayed was a church where an 11 matched but zealous quartet practiced and performed during all hours of the torrid afternoons and evenings one evening seeing the fa man sit for a time unoccupied and apparently oppressed by this corn bained affliction the young daughter of his hostess attempted to divert him by lottering ottering ott ering him a new novel then justabe coming popular I 1 think the choir Is perfectly splendid ir fiske said she would n you like to read if the historian put the book aside my dear oung lady said he the only choir in the world in which I 1 could feel any interest at this moment would be the choir in audible |