Читать книгу The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 13, No. 369, May 9, 1829 - Various - Страница 3
THE COSMOPOLITE
CAT AND FIDDLE
Оглавление(To the Editor of the Mirror.)
Your correspondent, double X has furnished us with a well written and whimsical derivation of the above ale-house sign, and partly by Roman patriotism and French "lingo," he traces it up to "l'hostelle du Caton fidelle." But I presume the article is throughout intended for pure banter—as I do not consider your facetious friend seriously meant that "no two objects in the world have less to do with each other than a cat and violin."
How close the connexion is between fiddle and cat-gut, seems pretty well evident—for a proof, I therefore refer double X to any cat-gut scraper in his majesty's dominions, from the theatres royal, to Mistress Morgan's two-penny hop at Greenwich Fair.
JACOBUS.
