Evening star., 1864-05-15
THE EVENING STAR.
AN EsSA ONTO Musk.
By JOSH BILLIN0H.


"Fusik has charms tew sooth q savage.
Tew rend o rock, and bust a ksbbage,i
80 they tell me, nut shud rather try 8 re-
volver on the savsge, blast ov powder on
the rok, and good sharp vinegar on the kib-
base. / hant sarched histry tew diskiver who
gave the fust con cert ov musk We are told
That in those days /" the stars sang together"
but in these days you kant git stars 10 sing to-
Sether. We often heard sed "that such per-
son has good ear for rnusikl' don't feiisr-
ship with this remark; awi person wants
tew understand musk with is good soul; a
"Eood ear" haint got emmy mere tew dn with il
than a good sett of branes has tn In with char.
ty. Musikal crickets insist that il the gam.
mut aint rite. the musk amt rite; this is awl
rousenze the gammut haint got any more tsW
du with q m usik. hungry man, than nife and
forA has with his dirner. il he is real hungry
and kin eat with his fingers.
MUSK want gotnp to make MS wise, bp better
natured. How much opera musk dew you
suppose it wud tax tn maik man cryl Folks
will tell yu thatsuch an s'overture fria du5uIo"
tor sum uther turin big named thing) "Was
most heavenly rendered." tha mite as we'll
tell men that a pumkin pie was neaVaniy
rendered What do care about the rendering,
~ don't git piece ov the PIE! Let some
Prime Bonner, or MeZzer Sompeoner, or t'ea-
rytown Base, or sum sich larin individual,
cum into this villagc,and histe their flag, and
hav a progeammy ov singing as long as 8
sarch warrant, and as hard to spell out az q
chimes proklamashum ritten upside down,
and fax seventy five cents for a preserved
seat, and most every body will go tn hear 1t,
bAkause most every body else dug, and will sa,
evry now and then (out loud), show be witch
ing. how deiisbus! how egstatic" and nineteen
out of evry twenty-one ov them wouldn't kno
il If the performance was burlesk on thsir
randmother.
Wouldn't it be fun tew Gee one ov these opera
singers undertake to rok q baby tn sleepl l
guess there wud be two parts carried tn that
song about that time. Suppoze yu shud coma
nome at mite, weary boy, and Ia yure he'd in
mothers lap, and she shud let out a opera,
good Lord! would not WI think yure mother
was funatik. or ought to be one at onst teW
save her karakter. "Korreckt taist'' is an.
n,her blg wurd; i've hurn folks use it whose
finger males wanted cleaning. Musk, after all.
seasoning we uzp, the more we hav tn hav
M after while We kant enjoy emmy thing ov
the vittlss bnt the pepper. Opera don't hav
emmy more locsening effeck on me, th5 n caster
lie would on graveu image. ] set and gaze,
and bark, and Gee the whole au ience in hiro-
gilphicks, and awl kan do liz tn git mad that
sich stuff iz kailed musk. But all the reason
ing IN the wurld wont konvince mPnny people
mat tina haint got rite tew 60 into fits over an
opera tha dent understand a wurd ov; it is the
fashion teW expire and have their souls dis.
solve in latin at the rate venty- five cents,
an II has got to be did, "sink or swim, survive
or perish 1fany body wants tn go and hear
a man or %rman disgorge musk, that has
more kolik than melody into IL, I suppose (nn-
der the cons:itushun) tha hav jist the same rite
as tia have tew crusifi themselves ennv other
va for somebody els's sins that tina don't know
the nature OF.