The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-11-17
The Bass Singer Found.
AN HONEST PUFF.


D. P. Thompson, Esq, editor and
proprietor of the Grccn M9nntain
Freeman. never lets an interesting item
slip by without making" note ont"
Friend Thompson, we ow thee one
DOdgcS Museum.
'Ossian f. Dodge, of the Boston Lit
crary Museum, recently put forth in his
paper a grave notice of the want of
good bass singer with the singular quail
ifcation that one from Vermont would
be preferred" AS far as voice is con
ccrned. we think we have found one,
that, if he can only be properly trained,
will answer the purpose. The discov-
cry was made on this wise
\ few weeks ago. being worn down
with labor and vexed half out of our life
with cares and politics, We called for
our team. and thrusting fresh Museum
in our pocket to read at leisure, we
struck line for the mountains, nor
slackcned our speed till we had reached
the vicinity of Cranbcrry-meadow pond
in the good town of Waterbury when
we put up our pony, and with our fish
iug-gear started of through swamp
thlci.et for the pond. 1t was a dark
and tangled hole we had got into and
sitting down on an old log TO rest. we
pulled out the Museum, and soon fell
on Dodge's queer advertisement when,
strange to tell loud voice, in tones of
the deepest bass VIC ever heard, resound-
ing through the solemn stiffness of the
forest, seemed as if in direct response
to what we were reading, to say" Os-
sian Dodge Ossian Dodge I'm your
man I'm your man p
- What coincidence = thought we.
starting to our feet Mr. Dodge can
get nothing out of Vermont, in the bass
line, equal to that Let us follow it
up"
= We did so, aud soon found the ow-
ner of the voice coolly practising at his
art on the fragment Of an old raft, on
which,
"All dressed in sheen
or forest green,
he was floating about in deeply-embow-
cred hook of the pond. We looked out
and listened from our bushy covert with
no ordinary sensations for such spec
linen of his kind, both in voice and phys
ical proportions, We will venture to affirm
was never seen or heard in all the Green
Mountains
On our return home we met an
acquaintance, who, seeing our fine string
of trout, and guessing where we had
been, asked us if we had encountered
the great Bassoon-Player, said to be in
that pond p
"We admitted We had seen musical
prodigy, but called it bass singer, aud,
in connection, took out the Museum and
read Dodge's notice.
1.-THE very thing, for all the world ?
he exclaimed, laughing, "and you may
safely recommend him to Dodge as de-
cidedly the best bass voice in Vermont u
I'VE have written the foregoing with
the double tiew of responding to the
Museum, and trying to meet the pre-
vailing taste of the great public in our
cities and villages for, having seen the
Divine Jenny carry off half million
of our money for musical performances;
other singers and fiddlcrs doing nearly
the same and having found our chief
city papers, for years, half filled with
notices and plaudits of that class Of per
sonages, in which we havo lately seen
certain of our religious papers joining,
so far, at least, as to announce the ad-
vent of Madame Sontag, new musical
wonder for our worship and cash, wa
have become convinced that concert
singing is altogether the most impor-
tant subject which at present agitates
the universal world !" and we sincerely
hope our poor effort land also our pro
tege) will be received as some sort Of
roparatiou for our objectionable remiss
ness in not better keeping up with the
progress of the times
POWERFUL JoKE-A Western editor
thinks Hiram Powers, the sculptor, is a
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