Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1894 — Not So Easy. [ARTICLE]

Not So Easy.

When Joachim, the celebrated violinist, was living at Hanover, he took it into his head to learn skating. He went on the ice, had the skates fastened on, and asked the attendant to give him a few directions. “Oh,” said the latter, “it is easy enough, Herr Bandmaster. You throw out one leg and then the other, and off you go.” Welt and good! Joachim threw out one leg and then the other, and flop! there he lay sprawling on the ice. “Oh, ay, Herr Bandmaster,” said the attendant, with a malicious grin, “it is easy enough, but then it’s not quite as easy as fiddling, you know.”