Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1856-06-10
RICH MOND WING.
MY wIrE's PIANO.

The deeds accomplished. Ny wife hiss got a piano.
'sod nos farewell the tranquil mnd-fare~ell eonten,
and evening papers. and the big cigars that make ambition
vrae--oh, hre-slli Aad oh We mortal engines whose
rude throsts the immortal Jove dread camors counter
tsrieit" Bat atop. can't bid them ell
them has just come. IL a dray. Six earned
u into the pirlor aud grunted a~fhlly. weighs
ton, shines like mrro and has carved Cupds climbing
mp 1t. legs. And such lung.-~hcw Ny wife has com.
menced practice aud the fret time she touched the
machine thought We in the midst OF a thunder
storm and the lightning had struck the crockcry chest
The cat with tail erect took bee line for particular
friend upon the fence, demolished shilling pane oi
glass THE baby awoke this little fellow tried his best
beat the instrument but he didn't do tit beat him.
teacher has been introduced into the house lie
he Is the last Of Napoleons grand army. He long
mou-tche, looks me hercey smells Of garlic aud
by the Of Count Runaway and comeback
aganby lie his fingers through his hair twice then
grinncd then cooked his eyes up the ceiling like
monkey hunting he-, then down OF his fingers
and heard delightful sound similar that produced
by c,ckrosch upon the string of a iiIlc Down
come another, and was reminded Of the wind visiting
through Knot hole In hcncoop Tie touched his thumb
and thought was in peach orchard listening To the
braying OF ackass Now he his fingers along the
keys, and thought OF boy rafting stick upon pick
OF fence. All OF sudden he stopped. and thought
something had happened. Then down b,th lists
and oh, Lord such noise heard before. |
thought hurricane had struck the house sni the walls
were caving In. imagined in the cellar and a
OF coal falling my head. | thought the machine had
burst when the internal thing stopped and heard my
wife exclsm:
Exquisite I"
"what the deuce is the matter?
The answer
"Why, dear, that's Somnambua."
Oh Somnambua :" thought /; and the Count
rolled Up his sheet.
He calls il music but Tor the life Of me can't make it
look like anything else than rail fence with lot OF u
venle niggers climbing over it. Before that instrument
OF torture into the house could enjoy myself but
now every darned woman in the neghborhood must be-
invited to hear the piano. AMI every time the ba
ted thing shreks out like locomotive with the bronchiu
have to praise it, tone, and when invited guests play
ing have to say Exquisite !" ghtful" "Hc,venlv!
and all such trash, while at time know much about
muse colhsh. There tuning hammers than
comfort in house and-ind wish the inventor of
piano troubled with perpetual nightmare aud obi.
ged to sleep in OF his all OF his life
As for myself had rather put my head under a pan
and be drummed u sleep with pair of smoothing
than hear LA Somnambua," any other La thump-
cd out OF piano. Scatter pennies in front of my house
anu draw all the wandering minstrclS in the city-hdnt
organs banos, hides, GnbOrines, rafting bones and
fish hOrus ctjuvenc monkeys crawl IN window, in
search OF three pieces let Som Imbula any
La be awakened at midnight by the cry OF murder -
by the cry OF murder" ring tha FIRE bells aud have
devil OF time generay-lo all this aud will
plain; but banisn the pianos NV piano has got 90.
gjing To launch the internal thing the window
the hrst dark night and friends, advise sleep
with cotton in your tor when she gives her diving
grunt you'll thnk youve fallen bed or fallen star
has gone tn you houseop. For the information
OF Young America will that the pieces Of brass
wire and ivory KEYS they welcome TO- the skelc
TO want Tor a refrigerator