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Musing on these things while still parading the streets, tired
and hungry, he met one Spangler, a tenor singer of his
acquaintance, who earned a pittance at the Church of St Michael.
Spangler was a poor man--but it is ever the poor who are most
helpful to each other--and, taking pity on the dejected outcast,
he invited Haydn to share his garret rooms along with his wife
and child. It is regrettable that nothing more is known of this
good Samaritan--one of those obscure benefactors who go through
the world doing little acts of kindness, never perhaps even
suspecting how far-reaching will be the results. He must have
died before Haydn, otherwise his name would certainly have
appeared in his will.
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