That was near the full of a certain summer moon; it was barely waning to the eye when the battered buyer of melodeons came for a new one to the shop in the pretty bush town.
"Stingaree"
E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
I have been tortured by mechanical pianos and automatic melodeons, and I crave quiet.
"Cobb's Bill-of-Fare"
Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb