The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1864-06-29
selett MtisrelIauy.
Muss in Our Choir,
by y. IL. RuLrAnp.

genuine Yankee cousin narratad the
following to one of us one evening last
winter, We have kept it safely lodged in
memory till now.
After tipping bis chair and himself back
to q comfortable position against the wall
no commenced thus:
Ny name is HidgkiGs- Jonathan 7. IIidg-
kips. The T. stands for Turner, who was
my grandfather, and corporal ip the old
Revolutionary army. So yoA acc Eeloqg
to the good~old genuine stock OF the land
of the free and home of the brave. At
this present speaking am twenty-five and
u half years OF age, stout. tall, aud as the
I'M, TnsiS u iSaXi yiiSS Al KILN gQQa loQkiH' rm also
whole of cur family are snS iiiuss Os. V sa"t the
and Marin used to bo death on oil kinds of
harmony. They've got to DO kind Of old
now, though, and their voices have got
kinder cracked. But their musical mantle
has descended upon their two children
with perfect Vengeance.
When say two children, ] mean my
sister Sal aud me. Sails about the great.
est soprano on record. Shes splendid;
good, too, on the alto On regular, right
/ up and down hallelah music she cant be
beat AS to me- 1 SO the whole fgGer on
pure tenor. I've got the darndest curious-
est voice TOO you ever heard tell on. It's
lust us smooth as glass--some jolly chaps
down in our town say broken Egss---b%t
that is all owing to envy. Now w~aTl have
TO do is to set in the key Of C., and it goes
a soaring upwards and onwards like tarn-
alton crow from pitch pine tree. OF
course, voices, and taic9ts like mine and
lSal's couldn't get through this vale Of tears
without being partialiy appreciated. AT
least they hav'nt. Sal Tiz to be head gal
singer in our choir doyn in Srottsdown
when she was only sixteen years old. I've
Ied the choir since | was twenty-five, end
! i haint had u tipie ont since 1 began
Judge ye.
ing village III the state of Vermont. II
haint got but ono meetin. bouse and thai
airs a genuine--that is " say, it was
built by about everybody. aud aint owned
0 by nobody. We have all sorts OF preach
ing in it too. About all the scots you eyer
herd tell on have had their tnrn at II, j
is now occupied by tho atallelewyerltes
They believe the Lords coming this year
sure. about tho first day of fall, precisely
Afore they had the meetn, house, hoy
ever. it was occupied by the Yewhetarians
aud it was during their confounded reig'
that tho muss took, place in orr choir
which knocked all the musical talent IL
Spottsdown into q cooked hat. Now you
lust exercise some patielice and more char
ity, and I'll tell YOU AL about.
You see then, or will when shoY II x
YOU. that when the Yewnetarians Fret pu
a preacher into our pulpit, led the sing
ing. Sal did the prime soprano, and every
thing connected nwiIsl the choir was goinl
ON iIlkstand. Well, the minister spesal
on, had only been settled about a mo}nlt1l o}1l1
when down comes feller to our FIae
from Boston, the grand New England EN-
porium. they. callsd Podse. Now yol
know that he's everybody in muaic. fn'
perhaps more 50. But the tarnai critte
wasn't sarisded with cGTing hitfSSH 50 2
brought a whole troop q Irst tAtsts ss ss Poe
I with linn, and gays ? eelsntlhc ea9red cor
cert in obr TiSaipg-hcRse. uf cours
+ Ooyy.osryboSy oy.s was t6Srs %Eg 81 y get there
!. beside one or two who EoNlndS
As far as music was cansarned that 81
9 consart killed me jest about dead. Tn
5 very next day afterwards, the proprietor
called a meeting, and voted 70 hrye 10
scientific music introduced into the Spots
ldown choir forthwith. The day after Iha
: SQUIRE Dawkins, the clrfk or tho parisl
oatIea % @s whilst was out ddisglD' tats-
: aMr. Hiagktns, \ hereby n9tItGyy yc.s ths
y II has been voted TO have sejenhhc mns'.
llss from Boston, introduced into our choi
Y. forth with"
a "What in thunder d0 you mean by the
4 air. says !. II consider that our lnqsie
Is rayther ia that line, now--l do, reaRy|
$50 far as the real ginerwns is cobsayl
ID cd, said ths sqaIa. .so 40 J, It's the
y giruinentsl part Of the bizzenness thst
:: :: any Of that kind 70 spkkk ont now N
Hidgkins."