Skit on Conan Doyle's Pennarby Mine
This article was published in The Eastbourne Gazette on 27 december 1916.
Pennarby Mine is a poem written by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1893.
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A concert was given by the Knuts at the Pier on Christmas Eve, when Sergeant Crombie brought down the house with "The Trapper's Christmas." It is surely the sign of a great artist when a man can play an "ugly sister" in "Cinderella" one day and a solitary trapper, keeping Christmas alone amongst the snows, the following day, and be really convincing in each. Of all the poems we have heard Sergeant Crombie recite he has never done anything better or more pathetic than this one, and I feel certain there was not one member of the audience who had not at least a lump in his or her throat when he had finished. Another splendid number was Driver Aveson's "The Holy City," for which beautiful song he gained a well-deserved encore. "Roly Poly," sung by Sergeant Gray and Corporals Thomas and Hicks was a breezy item, and Lance-Corporal Green gave a good humorous recitation, which seemed to be a skit on Conan Doyle's "Pennarby Mine."
