Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-07-23


horryzontal, when l happend tu turn it in the
direkshun betwixt Wachusit and bumskit As
soon as [ lookt threw it, / heerd some mewzik.-
l didn't kno but hozy had got up and gone tn
fddlin. So took my eye away from the telles-
koap tn listen did lissen, but koodn't heer
nothin ut all l lookt threw the teliskoap agin,
and the mewsick begun agin. ! lookt off, and
the mewsick broak OFF. | looked on, and the
mewsck came I CESS did this forty times
aud twas oilers the same. Teliskoap-mewsick
No Teliskoap-no mewsck. "Wall,' ses l.
settin back my stool. ioldin my arms and
seflillyk win, "Wall. now amt that kewrus p
what upon airth hare diskivered now? 1t must
be sumthin NothtR never made no mewsick, not
as nobody never ted me Wall, Ahaz," l kon-
tinuerd as | skratcht my he'd, YOU'RE puzzled
at last" Mr.. AhaE Starke, Y. S. A. P A. you're
kompleatly habbergasted. Don't brag emmy more
of your skill in praktekal aslronimy. But-let
me think-O yew old fool its a fly in the eend
of the teliskoap" So, latin at my stewpidety,
took off the cye-glass, and examined eyry
phase where it wus possible for a fly tn git. But
no fly kood find "Wall," Ses l. II expekt he
has krawld or fly out, and didn't see him." So
/ rubbed the eye-glass with an old Silll-hankycher
and put the teliskoap tugeiher agin. Now"
ses !, "Od teliskoap, CESS you'll work rite" l
put my eye tn the eend-whew mewsick agn
l took my eye away-mewsiok went away. Forty
times, and more tew, did | try the experiment
agin, and, before, twas oilers the same.
Telskoap-mewsick ieliskoap, mewsick.
Then | set back oumy stool agin, wiped my noZe,
and begun tn refekt and tn serlillykwize.-
"Ahaz," SEES l, you're non-plusst, non
kompus. But, as one of Keziah's standerd potts
ses, twill nebber du tn glib it up so. Let me see
-ringin In the GERS No, | shood hear that all
the time. Inseks? No, ditto. Mister-Ahaz-
Starke -Y.-S.-A.-P-A.- anniherlate YER
self thare-.take that" and l give myself an
orful poke in the RIBS That brot me tn my
senses. "No," SEES l, "No, Ahaz doant va kun.
NIT sewyside yit; the astronomical world kant
afford tn spare yu. No, nor the orthygrafikle
world neether. Shall wake hozy that boy
mussent find his father habbergastd with his
teliskoap. Wake Keziah? No; she'd go tn
kotin poitry. / doant want her agin ter axe me
that kweston of Pope's.
"Why formd week, so leetle and so Bynd."
Wake Deliler Don't think of it, Ahaz you
kant tel what rood take phase eff you shood du
that. l had gin the thing up in dispare, and was
Jest openin the dore tn go tn bed, when thot
struck me quicker'n lytnin laht rite ont loud.
" Now" SEES |, "gess I've got We. I'm sartin
ont this time" Them editnrs ofthe spy have
at last got somebody singin hozys song on the
brass kokerill. l set down nifty kwick, put a
bigger magnGyn power on the teliskoap, and
lookt for that brazen demesukated annymal.
The mewzik was louder than befoar, bekoz :he
magnilyin power was inkreest Twas purity dark,
but found the kokkeril roostin on the steeple,
his ewes wide open, but not sole OF anybody
astraddle of him =" Now that's tew much for
astrnomikal flesh and blud tn bare" sed 1,
jumpin up and walkin backerd and iorerd
"that was your last hoap Ahaz and it has evap-
grated. But yu must try tt bare it, like other
foolosifers. I've heerd keziash tell about Pa
thence Shakespeer's settin MONUMENT
latin at greet. I'll indeeyer tn be as stoikal as
Patience was. Eff there only was a monnyment
here Idset rite down on it and go TO latin But
there amt any; so III set on my old stool l
had set thare about ten minnits, thinkin over all
my astrinomikal nollidg, when all to wunst, was
bolt upTte and the old stool wus fyn akrost the
room. You reeker - kred |, like the old fool
osipher, I've found it I've found it its THE
MEwZIK OF THE sPEEAs. Ahaz Starke, yure
faim is sekured TIL the latest posterity Koperni-
kus diskiyered the true solur sistim Gallyleo
dskivered gravy.tashun Hershul diskiveaed
Yoluainus; Leverryer diskvered neptoon; Hal
ley, and Enky, and Miss Mitchill have discovered
kommits; Kasseenee, doctor Oilers and others
have discovered hetwxt thirty odd and forty asty-
roids doant know who did diskiver the man in
the moon nor who aciH diskiyer the kwodrytoor
of the sirkle and Ahaz Starke, the father of the
poit hozy, diskivered the mewzk of the speers.
Tha TIL sound purity we'll in the astrynomikle
books, $500 years from this time"
My blud was bilin. / run up stares and walked
Hozy and Keziah, and had them down in less
than tew minnits But, thinking, as the che
kawgo Kanzas settlers did, that prudense is the
better part of valluT, let deliler sleep. keziah
and hozy lookt threw the teleskoap and heerd the
lHeMsAh3 anu may hBlSSN WIN nv III my NPAu1
of it.
Hozy, tn be shure, did raise the obiekshun that
he tho'tit queer that the speers should play yam
ky dewde and pop goze the weezl but l demol
isht that argument by deklarin that as the speers
had ben playin all the time, ever sense the krea-
shun, they wood, of koarse, know all the tunes
that was ever playd. keziah Civ it up to wunSt.
But she sed she sorry that I'd made tie dis
kivery, bekoz she feerd the time was kummin
that was merely imagined, not proHyside, by pope,
in regard to man =
eff nature Numbered in his opening ears,
And stunned him with the music Of The spheres,
How would he wish that Heaven had left him still
The whispering Eepher and the murmering rill"
got her tn rite that down for me. 4" WALL"
sed tn her, " it may be so but we kant help it.
The development of art and the evolushuns of sci
unce must proseed, whether men are stundd or
not. But, Keziah, remember that it's MATERIAL
law that every new want or nesisity kalls forth
SUPPLY tu that want or necessity. When Addam
was kTeated, there was new want; it was soon
supplied by the kreashun of Eve; when You
needn't go emmy further, father" sed Keziah,
"that illustration is sufficient" "Wall, then"
ses l. "when the time kums that this newly dis
kivered mewsik of the speers does stun US, yu
may depend ont that sum parsiverin yanky gee
nus will immeditly take patient for bubble.
kompound' oustic-impermeable- inelastic-ln-
distructible. auricular apparatus" Then twas
o'klok, a. NJ, and we went tn bed
The next day or, in fact, the same day, late
in the AFTERNOON. l went down to the post offs,
and was telliE some of the nahurs about the new
xix, but KEEP dark as tn what | thot twas.
Wall, while was ten my story, in kums Barny
by Bragg, and, arter listenin minnit or tew, SEES
he, IVY, Mr.. Starke, doant yu know what that
mewzik was twas Mr. Stoddurds new steem
whistle" Mr. Editurs,-l doant remember what
l sed on that okkazhun, but know 'twant long
arterwOrds that l found myself tu home. Twas
tew days before ventered to speek Of the matter
tn hozy and Keziah Sense that, Keziah and
have had long diskushun about the mewsika al
steem whissel. Keziah thaIe's only one way
that she kan akkount for the invenshun of SIGH a
thing, add that is as folders. She says MI Stod.
durd must be hansum young Teller, and some
young lady has ben sngn tn him the song
30 Whistle and will come 70 thee my lad."'
l inkline at an angle Of ty.nine degreez towards
her opinyun. All of which is respectfully submit.
It'd. You're friend,
Ahaz Starke, Y. S. A. p. A.
EsF Hoy thinks I'm greener than ever tn send
yu this. But think it's my dewty as a forlosifer
tn du it, 1t is anuther proof Of the fallybilty OF
scientific men--a proof that they may be deseevd
as well as other foxes. And arter all | doant
think was more blunder .fzzed-vulgarly kalld
sold"--than sum Of the kolidg professors ware
by Sur on Hursheels discoveries in the Moon,
about the time hozy was born.
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