James "Chick" Stripling (1916-1970) was a well known old time fiddler, comedian, and buck dancer in the years 1938-1966.

And when the chemo-therapy has taken away all your pretty curls, it's hard to remember a ragged old fiddler in Pike Place Market.

The old fiddler in other people's lives must've received a beaut of a grant from somewhere.

The old fiddler nodded and set his bow to the strings.

He spotted the old blind fiddler at his customary place on the corner.

Played an octave apart by violin and cello, an old fiddler's tune drones persistently as if on a hurdy-gurdy.

Other old fiddlers dislike the ways comhaltas sessions were organized with a committee player, often not himself a musician, in charge.

Twas that dreary old fiddler," he added with a shrug.

"Oliver Hyde's Dishcloth Concert," one of the best stories, tells how a bitter old fiddler, dead inside, is brought back to the living.

How's the old fiddler?