Litchfield enquirer., 1865-03-30
MUss IN, OUR CHOIR.

! 1g4l3 3.a : ! A genuine Yankee cousin narrated the fol lowing to us one evening last winter. We have kept it safely lodged in memory till now After tipping his chair and. himself back to a comfortable position against the wall, he conn menced thus afleis sei < 3e sayF@ g~s .eqei7g, My name is Hidgkins-Jo Jonathan T.. Hidg- kins. The T. stands for Turner, who was my grandfather, and corporal in the old revolu
 tionary army. So you see Il belong to the good old genuine stock of the land of the free and; home of the brave. At this present speak. ing am twenty-five and half years of age, stout, tall. and as the gals say, all kiln' good lookin'. Fam also a musical character of the most excrutiating melodious description In fact, the whole of our family are musical too
 Dad and marm used to be death on all kinds os harmony They've got to be kind of old now. rthough7theirs voices got to be kinder cracked; But their musical mantle has de. scended upon their two children with perfect vengeance. 1ts&5 S9G1e <. SFc3@i 13t .s 1rs-s'
 lWhenI say two schidren, I mean my sister Sal and me. Sails about the greatest soprano on record. Shes splendid good too, on the alto: On right up and down hallelujah music she can't be beat. As to me, go the whole figure on pure tenor.a I've got the darndest couriousest voice, too you ever heard on.-
 It 8 just as smooth as glass jolly chaps down in our town say broken glass-but that's all owing to envy.s. Now all that l have to do is to set in the key of C., and it goes soaring ppw ards aud onwards like tarnation crow from the topof pitch Dine tree. Of course,
 voices and talents like mine and Sal's couldn't get through this vale of tears without being partially appreciated. At least they haynt. Sal has rig up to be head gal singer in our choir down in Spottsdown, when she was only sixteen years old. a I've led the choir since I was twenty-two, and if haint had time ont since began, judge ye. '-~ s,,i..
 Spottsdown. you know, is manufacturing village in the State of Vermont It hain't got but just one, meetin' house. and that airs 8 genuine one--that is to say it was built by about everybody and aint owned by nobody We have all sorts of preaching in it too. About all sects you ever heard tell on have had their turn at it. It is now occupied by the Haller7 lewYerites. They believe the Lords coming this year sure, about the first day of fall, pre- cisely.s sgbsh .gI sAsI :s4nsse49 si. x3g3 sa iAfore they had the meeting house, however, it was occupied by YeWnetarians, and it was during their confonnded reign that the mugs took place in our choirwhich knocked all the musical talent in SpottsdoYn into a cooked
 hat. Now you just exercise some patience and
 more charity, and I'll tell you all about it. asla sl Yousee, then, ,or will when shewit to yon, that when the Yewnetarians first put a minis, ter into our pulpit, led the singing. Sal did the prime soprano; and everything connected with the choir was going on jest 7about ink stand: .WelL tn minister Ispeak on had only been settled about 2 month, when down comes feller' to our place from Boston, the grand New England emporium, they called Dodge.- Nov you know that hesi is everybody in music, and perhaps more. so., But. the, tarnal critter was not satisfied with coming himself, so he brought asshols ttDops fftstFaters along with him. and sgsve a scientific sacred concert in; our. meeting house. Of coarse everybody was there who could gel, there, besides one or two who couldn't biE1sG .ssJsFrAs2 sstseEgT ksts Asfar as music was consumed, jthataair cone sart killed mejnst about dead. The very, next day afterWard the proprietors called meeting and voted to have the scientific music intro. duced into the Spottsdown choir forthwith. '
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