text:  Oh do try if you can't say something something something to enliven one a bit! On this hint the little violin first got excited upon one string and then upon another and then the bow rode a hand-gallop over two at once; then saw we four fingers flying as far up the finger-board as they could go without falling overboard near the _bridge_--a dangerous place at all times from the currents and eddies--and there provoking a series of sounds as if the performer were pinching the tails of a dozen mice that squeaked and squealed as he made the experiment