Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1851-04-08

the watch-house. The company de
cided that it was too warm to dance
q had been Of that opinion for some
time previously and determined te
have little music by way Of variety
Accordingly, demand was made upon
young lady, who, after declaring
first, that she never sung; secondly:
that she did not know how to sing;
and thirdly, that she hadn't prad-
ticed for six months, finally marched
up to the piano in grand style. ]
took Miss Morrison in tow as a
sailor would say, and sauntered in
the same direction, on the principle
of what mathematicians call the 'suf-
ficient reason to-wit, because there
was no particular motive for my 60
ing anywhere else. The fair perform
er after turning over about two
dozen songs, at last succeeded in
finding one I'd her taste. My eye
accidently caught the title. To my
great surprise, it was not an italian,
but a beautiful Scotch ballad.
The beautiful artist commenced.
She heightened out the sweet strains
as if she never could have enough
of them, like q fly crawling through
a pot of honey, Annoyed beyond
measure by the performance, leaned
against the corner of the wall, and
sought the last refuge of the misera-
BILE.
/ / was awakened by a great crash.
A young lady, with any amount of
mouth, and very small quantity OF
nose, was doing execution on the un-
fortunate instrument at the rate Of
twenty knots an hour, and letting
loose upon society vast number Of
words in some unknown tongue,
pitched in the shrillest treble; while
young gentleman, with one side Of
his collar standing up and the other
turned down, Was accompanying her
in the deepest kind of bass. l list
ened out of pure astonishment, and
soon distinguished the words, dove,
dove, dove, III the losdest conceiva-
BILE tone, amid terrible thunderings Of
the piano.
Now is it not surprising, that
hearing these words often repeated, I
should have fAlt some curiosity to
learn their meaning l looked an4-
iously around.in hope of discovering
some one from whom the desired in
formation might be extracted. To
my great relief l recognized two old
schoolmates, whom l had not before
observed.
Can you tell me what dove means? ?
I said.
Do-veay? e knew nothing oi
Italian, and he knew less) why SO
away to be sure
| Not feeling quite certain of the
correctness of this version, | apple d
to the second,
Dove? IIbelieve it is the italian
for love- and With this | Ilcid explana-
ton / was obliged to re$t content.
The duett, like all OF her sublunary
things came tp an q nd in the cours sc
of time. Some one els +, peantim e
had made way with Miss Morrison
and l was left to my oYn resource S.
First, | stood still in on e corner for &
few minutes, then | walked over tC
another and stood there: next, | trieC
to listen to song which was being
murdered, but the instinct of sci
preservation Soon compelled me tt
retire to a respectful distance. Ther
| I trod on a lady's toe, and begged
her pardon for so doing. Even this
little incident afforded me great re
lief
| Suddenly a fan was drorped q,
sprang forward like young comet
nearly extinguishing an exquisite
who was advancing for the same
object, seized the fallen article ant
/ turned to present it to its fair owner
But just at this instant a waiter en-
! tered the room with a tray Of ho
stewed oysters. In turning | RAJ
against him--he fell over, and thu
contents Of the tray poured headlong
a perfect cataract, into the lady Lap
| There was a scream rush +
Butt heard no more. | dartet
from the room, and have never beer
to party since.