The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1850-08-14
PLAYING ON THE PIANO.

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/ book entitled "Georgia Scenes. Characters
and Incidents" Miss Crumo, Young la9y
educated at Philadelphia, and highly accom-
Plishcd, is represented at party where. afief
many solicitations and apologies, she seated
herself at The piano, rocked to the right, them
10 the left, leaned forward, then backward. :.
and begun. She placed her right hand about
midway the keys, and her left about two &C.
Iaves below them. She now puts off the
| right 10 brisk caDter upon the treble notes,
and her lel after it. The lett then led the
way back, and the right pursued it in like
manner. The rightturned and repeated its
movement, Tut the left ou,run it this time,
hopped over it and flung il entirely off the
trock. 1t came again, however, Lehnd the
| left, on IFS turn, and passed il in the same
lstyle. They now became highly incensed
at each other, and met furiously on the mid.
die ground, Here most awful conflict en-
sued for short space, when the right whip.
ped off all Of sudden, as | thought flary
IvunquisheG; but ! was in error against what
Jack Randolph cautions us-"rallen back to
a stranger position" 1t had mounted up two
back keys, and commenced the note of
Iraulesnake. This had a wonderful effect
upon the left, and placed the doctrine of
snake charming heyound dispute. The left
rushed toward it repeatedly, but seemed in-
variably panic struck when it came within
six keys of it, and as invariably retired with
a tremendous roar down The brass keys, con-
Ilinued its assaults, sometimes by zipzag
through, but all lis attempts 10 dsodge the
! right from It's stronghold proved Intellectual,
ii came close up to lis adversary and expired.
ANY one, or rather no one, Can imagine what
kind of noises The piano made during the
conflict. Certain i: is that no one can des~
cribe them, and therefore shall not attempt
lit. The battle ended, Mss Augusta moved
moved as though she would have risen, but
this was protested against by a number Of
voices al once. Zone song, my dear Aus
gusta," said Mrs. Small "you must sing that
sweet little French air you used to sing in
PhIadelphia, and which Madam Piggisqueaki
was so fond Of" Miss Augusta looked pitt,
| fully at her mamma, and her mamma looked
"sing" at Miss Augusta; accordingly she
squared herself for song She brought
her hand into capus this time in fine style,
and they seemed to be perfectly reconcied
TO each other then commenced kind of col
loquy; the right whispering treble very softly,
and left responding bass very loudly.
The conference has been kept up until
began to desire change on the subject, when
my ear caught, indistinly, some very curious
sounds, which appeared to proceed from The
lips of Miss Augusta; they appeared TO be a
compound of dry cough, q grant, a hiccough
and Whisper and they were introduced, it
appears to me, as interpreters between the
ight and left Things has progressed in this
way for about the space Of fifteen seconds,
when happened to direct my attention to
to Mr.. 'Ienks from Philadel phia. His eyes
were closed, his head swung gracefully from
side 10 side, beam OF heavenly compRcency
rested on his countenance, and his whole
manner gave irresistible demonstrations TINT
Miss Crumbs music had made him feel good
all over. had Just learned from this cons
| temptation of Mr.. Jenkins transports to see
whether could extract from the performlnce
anything Ineligible, when MISS Crumb made
a fly catching grab at half dozen keys in
row, and tie same instant she fetched
long dung Hill cock crow, nt the conclusion
of which she grapped as many keys with the
left, This came over jenkins with warm
bath, and over ne like rack Of bamboo
briars My nerves had not recovered from
the shock before Miss Augusta repeated the
movement, accompanying it with the squea
of pnched cal., This threw me into an
ague fiji, but from respect TO the performer,
maintained my position. She now made a
third grasp with her right, and at the same
! Time raised one of the most unearlhly howls
that ever issued fromlhe1hroat ofany human
being, This seemed the signal for universal
uproar and destruction She now threw
away all reserve, and chargsdiae piano with
her whole force. She boxed it, she crawled
| it, she scrnped il. Her neck veins swelIed,
her chin flew up, her face flushed, her eyes
gIared, her bosom heaved; she screamed,
she howled, she yelled, she cnckled, and
was in the acto( dwelling upon The nOie Of a
screecbEowlIwh j took the 81. Wit SIS dance
and rushed out of the room, "Goodnessr'
said bystander, "if this be her singing
what must be her cryiBg!'
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TINE ABOUT. Two Yankees were stroll.
ing in the woods without any arms in lheil
possessions and observing bear ascending
a tree wilhiis large paws, clusped round tht
trunk, one Of them ran forward and caugh
the benr's paws, one in each hand H,
Instantly called out TO his comrades
i Jonathan, say, 90 homo and bring mi
something as fast as you can, .iill kill th'
varmint Mind don't stay, Cor I'm in I
4 FIX Yasal
| Jonathan ran of as fast as be could, bul
was an exceedingly long time returning. Du'
ring the interval the bear made several des'
perale attempts to bite the hand Of him who
, held it. AT length Jonathan came back
'EaIoo, Jonathan, what The deuce hai
I kept your |
: Jonalhun replied; 2'3a5
well, rIlielI youj when at home break
! fast was about ready, and ! guessed iiwoulc
lbe as well TO wait for il. g Yea
I 'Helo now, Jonathan, said his companion
J come you mad hold II, aud III kill the crea
ture in jify.'
r Jonathan seized the beAr's paws, aud he'i
J 1.-The animal while the other could kill Il,
;, 'Wolb Jonathan, have you got hold o
,lhims' i yea t'A g
! q guess Ihsve replied Jonathan.
i Very well, hold him iasti guess III @
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