Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-07-19

JuSG aDOuC tulS tlue, Oqulle Dd"hius
cum along, and as the foreign chaps with
their instruments were standin' by the tav
ern door, he takes me by the arm, walks me
up to the German, with fiddle in his hand
and says:
This, Mr.. Hidgkins, is our violinist, Mr.
Sleidemer'
'Tis, hey; we'll, how do you do, Mr.
Sledge-hammer?' says I, holdin' out my
hand for him to shake. Wall, he shook it
spell, then grinned like barn cat, and
aud said.
ME vera well, well, me no speak very
l&tle Iuglese. Me play the Mewsic for
de grand Cathedral.
What in thunder, Squire says I, 'does
he mean by that erep
That what ? says the Squire.
why, Cathedral, as he calls it,
That's meeting house, says the Squire.
1T is hey-well, it sounds about as
much like it as pork does like Nebbardean.
nezzar.'
That tother gentleman, says the Squire,
'is our big fddlist, Mr.. Viuenro, from 1t,
aly.'
Me Italiano-no comprehende-speaks
de Inglese.'
SHAWN, you don't hey? Well, nobody
round this way supposed you did. Now,
Squire says I, where's the genuine ele.
phant-the gal critter mean, that's goin'
to take SAILS placer
She's got touch Of the brown.skeeters,
said the Squire, 'and can't come till next
Sabbath day.
Brown skeeter,' says I, what in Jehu's
that?'
dts tremendous awful disorder in
the throat that aflicts great singers and
ministers very often,' says the Squire. 1T
cant be cured in this country, so the min,
listers say. And that's the reason their
cougregrations-that is, them that can af.
ford it-sends them to Europe
'Oh, understand, SQUIRE says, I, 'all
about it. But does this ere outlandish gal
singer have her face all kivered up with
stachers and snakeroot-goatees | mean,
and such stuff
No, says the Squire, Il expect not
Give hearn tell afore now,' said Zekle
Jones, that all great singers cultivates them
things because they help the vibration Of
the voice
Dew they says I, well, that's about
the curiousest wrinkle ever | hearn tell on
Soon as l find out it is a fact, through,
I'll tell Sal ont, and the way we'll both &C
into the goatee and stasher Dizziness, will
be caution to bears,grease, now II. tell
ye.'
By this time the two goatteed musician
ers and Squire Dawkins had gone into the
tavern and left Zeke and l standin' out or
the doorsteps. When found there warn
anybody round but US two, says to zeke
says /
What do you think of our new music p
sDarn'd little, says he. 1t amt goir
to do you nor l any good, anyhow You
see, Jonathan, that you are leader now, ane
| am head base singer of the Spottsdowr
choir, and your sister Sal is the head ga
singer. You know, too, that the gals il
general, all over the village, think tar
nal sight of head singers. Well, this err
music, you see, will make thunderin noise
and drown all our voices chock out The
we shall be sowed up and entirely done to
We shall have to shut up shop and go home
Then we shall be laughed and snickered a
by all the gals in town, and fually be dru
off to t'other side of sundown, or somewher
else
Jess So says l ; 'and I motion we don
stand it.
Second that notion said he. sBu
how in thunder are we going to help it !
Don't know as we can, says l, 'but "
can try; I've got plan in my head
sSich as WHAT said he.
'Sich, said |, 'if it works WE'LL as wi
kick up a muss in the choir and kick tn
music out ont, at the same time Thes
chaps with the instruments, you know, can
speak much English
'Aud can't read any, said he.
That's just the idea,' says |, that's g
in to do the whole Dizziness
How y says Zeke.
wait till tomorrow mornin' and you
see, says l. You know | lead the sins
in ?
sSartin | do.
'And find the tunes in the psalm book
'Eggsactly,' says he.
and give them out to the singers?
Deesididlee, says he.
'And these ere chaps can't read any Eli
glish p
Not smudgeon,' says he.
sNutf sed, Zeke Wait till the first hym
is gin out, tomorrow morning.
Well, the next morning came, as was e2
pected, and was one of them ere king {
summer mornings you generally read abou
The sun riz in all his glory at half-past fou
o'clock, and at ten, when the meetin' b'
gun, it was hot enough to boil eggs in th
shade. Along while afore the second be