Evening star., 1864-05-14
THE EVENING STAR.
AN ESSA OSTO Musk.
BY JOSH BILLINGS.
"Musik has charms tsw sooth a savage
s,w rend ar ek, and bust kahbageH

s,w rend aroek, and bust kahbage.'
so they tell me, nut shud rather try a re-
voIver on the savsge, a blast ov Do wder on
fAp rex, and good sharp vinegar on the kab-
hAse. ! hanI sarched histry tew diskiver who
gave the fust concert ov musk. We are told
that in tAose days " the stars sang togerher,
est in these days you kant gi. stars to sing to.
getber. We often heard sed "that such per-
son has good ear for musikl don't felter-
ship Uith this remark; awl q person wants
Rw understand musk with is good soul; q
a.good sar' haint got emmy mere taw du with it
than q spod sett Of branes has tn dn With char
Hy Musikal crickets insist that il the gam
nrt amt rite, the musk amt rite; this is awl
popsppze the ramm u, haint got any more teW
do with m usik- hungry man, than nife and
fork has with his dinner, IL he is real hungry
and kin eat with his fingers.
Musk want gotup 10 make Us Wise, but better
natured. How much opera musk dew you
suppose /. w nd tax tn maik q man cryl Fo!ks
will tell yu thatsuch an s'overturs fria duhulo"
tor sum uther furrin big named thing) WIS
most heavenly rendered." tina mite as Wen
tell men that pumkin pie was heavenly
rendered What do care about the rendering
l don't git piece ov the pie! LEI some
Prime Bonner, or Me Eyer Sompeoner. or Bsa-
rytown Base, or sum sich larin individual,
cum into this village, and hists their fag and
sarcb warrant, and as hard to spell out az a
shiues proklamashum rittsn upside down,
and fax seventy FIVE cents for q preserved
sear, and most every body will 60 tn hear it,
svry now and then (out Loudly. show be witch
ing! how delishus! how eestatic!" and nineteen
cut Of evry twenty. one ov them wouldn't kno
II II the performance was ourlesk on their
rsndmother.
Wouldn't it be fun tew Gee one ov these opera
singers undertake to rok q baby tn sleep!
guess there wud be two parts carried tn that
cong about that time. Suppoze yu shud come
home al mite, weary boy, and Ia Jure he'd in
mothers lap, and she shud let out opera,
good Lord! would not vu think yure mother
was q lunatik, or ought to be one at onst tew
save her karakter. sKorreckt taist' is an.
uther big wurd: i've hurn folks use it whose
finger males W anted cleaning. Musk, after all,
IL snrSthing like yittes, the more cooking aud
seasoning we uZe, the more we hav tn hav
til stte1 a y hile we kant enjoy emmy thing ov
the vittles but the pepper. Opera don't hav
emmy more loosening effeck on me, tn n caster
lie would on graveu image. l set and gaze,
and bark, and Gee the whole aujsnca in hiro-
Gliphicks, and awl kan do liz tn git mad that
sich stuff liz kalled mnsik. But all the reason
ing in the wurld wont konyince mPnny people
tn at tha balnt got rite tew 60 into fits over an
opera til don't understand q wurd ov: it is the
tas hon tew expire and have their souls dis
solve III latin at the rate ov sevpnty-fye cents,
an II has got to be did, "sink or swim, survive
or perish" If any body wants tn go and hear
a man or wuman disgorge musk, that has
more kolik than melody into f., suppose (un-
der the constitushun) tha hav iist the same rite
as III q have tsw crusifi themselves emmy other
wa for somebody els's sins that tha don't know
the ra'pre Of.