Characters The Landlubbers Lying Down Below
Stare and listen'Scipio is eleven years old and a lady's page He plays the harpsichord speaks French and German and sings in Italian But what was appealing and remar
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Kable in a small child is no longer so in a 'hobbledehoy' And after he meets the two child prodigies Wolfi and Nannerl at a concert Scipio's fate will change forever
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'Tonight it is the concert Two Prodigies of Nature are coming to play in my lady's ball room As soon as the concert begins I understand why the whole world comes to
The peculiar title suggests something nautical and maybe if we're lucky even piratical but in fact this brief short story a mere fourteen pages is set entirely on land Its narrator is Scipio an enslaved black boy in 18th Century London who serves as a page for his fashionable mistress One evening Scipio witnesses a concert performed at his mistress's house by two 'Prodigies of Nature' the young Mozart and his s