Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-08-11
you, provided you'd stay. .


sort of thing, just the same as you ever did 4"
You'd better believe won't do nothing
clsc," says |, and then the Squire left the
tntcr field.
Wall, the next Saturday afternoon up came
the new muSicancrs from Boston, music and
! all L stood ut the tavern door aud saw 'cm
light oft the stage-coach They was pretty
good lookm' chaps all but their faces, and
them was awful, l tell you. They had as
much hair on EN-, cen most, rs there was
on the back side of their heads When saw
that ere, | turned to Heke Jones, who was
standin' by, and says 1 :
! "Nckc, what in thunder do you call that
air which them foreign chaps has got on their
upper lips?
" Mustachcrs," says Zcke.
Ar thcy?' says "thcy look to me like
a sort of patent smellcrs What's that they
got stuck there Just under their undcr-lip %
Impccroil," says Hekc.
"Shaw, you don't say So And that are
stuff CROWN out under their chins, like
bunch OF young snake root-whats that? ?"
"A goat-tce," says Zeke
And that sounds tarncd sight more nat
crallcr," says ethan both of t'other two
put together"
Just about this time, Squire Dawkius cum
Strumcnts were standin' by the tavern door.
he takes me by the arm, walks me up to tho
German, with a fiddle in his hand, and says ::
This, MIR llidgkins, is our yiolinst, Mr.
Slcidcmcr."
",Tis, hey, how do you do, Mr.. Sledgcham-
mcr?, says, holden out my hand for him
to shake. WALL he shook it spell, then
grinncd like barn cat and said
Me vera well, well, me no speak very Ice
tic lnglcsc. Nc play the Mcwsic for de grand
Cathedral"
What in the thunder, Squire" says ],
" docs he mean by thar ere -
"That what" says the Squire
Why, Cathedral, as he calls it.
"That's a meeting house," says the Squire.
"It is hcy-wcll, it sounds about as much
like it as pork does like Ncbbardeannczzar."
" That t'othcr gentleman" I" says the Squire,
dis our big fddist, Mr.. Nincnro from Italy"
Me ltnliano-no comprchendc-s
de Ingccs."
Swaww you don't hoy? WELL nobody
round this way supposed you did Now,
Squire" says |, "whcrcs the genuine Gle
phant-thc gal crttcr mean, that's goiu to
take Sails pncc?'
"Shes got touch oe the brown skcctcrs,"
said the Squire, "and can't come till next
Sabbath day"
Brown skcctcr," says 1 "what in Jchu's
that 2"
"It's tremendous awful disorder in the
throat that nfficts great singers and ministers
very often" says the Squire at can't be
cured in this country, so the ministers say
And that's the reason their Congregations
that is, them that can afford it-scnds them
to Europe"
ooh, understand, Squire" says I, call
about it. But does this ere outiandish cal
singer have her face all kivcrcd up with sta
chcrs and snukc-root--goatecs | mean, and
such stuff"
No" says the Squire, " / expect not"
"Ivc hearn tell aforc now" said Xeklc
Jones, +" that all great singers cultivatos them
things because they help the vibration of the
voice"
" Dew they" says I, "we1l, that's about
the curiouscst wrinkle ever hcarn tell on
Soon as | find out it is fact, though III tell
Sal ont and the way we will both 90 into the
goOtee and stushcr bizzincss, will be caution
to bears grease, now I'll tell yc,"
By this time the two goattced musicianers
and Squire Dawkins had gone into the tavern
and left Nckc and [ standin out on the door
steps When found there want anybody
round but us two, says to Xckc says L
What do you thpk OF our new music ?"
Darn'd little" sayc he. {" 1t amt goin
to do you nor any good anyhow. You see,
Johathan, that you are leader now, and am
head bass singer of the ,Slottsdown choir, and
your sister Sal is the head gal singer You
know too, that the gals in genrral, all over the
village, think tarnal sight o. head singers.
Well, this ere music, you see, VIII make
tlunderin noise, and drown all our voices
chock out. Then we shall be sowed up and
entirely done to. We shall have to shut mp
shop and go home. Then we shall be laugh
cd and snickcred at BY all the gals in town,
and fHinaiiiJ he truv oil TO t'othcr side OF sun
down, or somewhere else
jess So" says "and motion VIC don't
stand it,"
Second that notion" said he " But
how in thunder are we going to help itY
:" Don't know as we cam" says |, "but we
can try; I've got plan in my head"
Sich as what% said he.
"Sich," said I, I" if it works we'll as will
kick up a muss in the choir and kick the mu-
sic out ont, at the same time. These chaps
with the instruments, you know, can't speak
much English.
And can't read any" said he.
"That's just the idea," says I, that's
goin' to do the whole Dizziness"
elbow" says Hcke.
"Wait till tomorrow mornin and YOU sec"
says L. "You know lead the singin 2"
" Sartin I do