Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-07-06
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he can in counting house Or workshop,
iua87 Letter Fren Zekcyiiie.
From the Rockingham va, fsegister.
Mister Editur,AI don't pity EN- a sim
gle bit. Ef people Willie so hard he'd
ded as tn not take emmy adeice fruni emmy
boldly, and tina 60 on and gitintu skrape.
I don't hey bit NV sympathy fur en-
Now, whenever yung foxes konkiudc tina
no more than old people, tha are nifty apt
tn make mistakes. And so it was in this
kase.
Howsumeyer, lie tel yu all abowt it.. eff
| kin keep frum laffin long enuf. Fur
the trooth NV the matter is its rale funny.
I've laffied til mi ribs aked, tho I must sa
its rite down serious matter.
Yu no about fore years ago, a singin
feller wus here, and he lad a transferable
singin skool So, after tha he'd dora
need and faw-sole-lawea fur abowt three
months, tha konkluded that tina wood hev
a kwire. So Neb lien begin provided
with the biggest voise, be wus eleeted the
| leeder. Ebenezer has wuuderful strong
voise. I've herd him riiself, nv a kleer,
kwiet eveniu, abowt too miles. Wal,
Neb was made leeder. Efever yu druv
fore horse teem yu no what a leeder is.
A good rlenny Nv US cid foxes wus agin
the kwire; but Neb and his singin fcllers
scd tha koodent sing the hi tener and 10
base cf tina dident all set tugether.- So.
ever since the kwi-e has bin singin up in
! the gallory. ~ 49, =
Bine-by Kathercn Marier scz tn me.
one da, seq she, father, wereto git an origin.
! A what. siz I. Why. SEE she. an ofgin.
What fur. sez l. Tu sing with us IN
church, sez she. 1t wus in mi own house,
1 so I koncludcd fde ssi nuthin abowt it.
It wusent long til one da I was down tu
I moetin, and after We yus dismissed. Neb
4 kun up tn me, and seq he, skwire, we want
yu tn gle us a little lift. What fun sez
/ I. %, SCI he, the ladies' Nv the kwirc hev
4 konkluded tn git origin fur the church,
and we want va tn Civ us a little. Why,
sez I, what upon the yarth du yu want
with origin? Yu haven't emmy bizness
with origins. nor fddles. nor boogles in
nectin. And yu haven't emmy boldly tu
pla the,tlIing eff yus had it. o, sez he,
Origins helps the singin and ads tu the So
leiiinity nv the nfeetin. And, sez he, its
accordin tu scripter, fur the sam seq David
plade on harp NV solem sound, and the
loud simbels, and an instrument Nv ten
strings: And sez he, as fur the plain, we
intend tn git origin with the tunes fixed
reddy in EN-. We kin git a furst rate in
strument fur ninety dollars that kin pla
twelve toons. I wus disguised, but [ sed
, no more. Neb and his kwire he'd deter
mined tn git the origin, and we old fogys,
as tha called us, jisIt Civ in and let EN- go
on. I found out that parson Daton wus a
crate kwire feller and mitely in favor Nv
the origin. s.lesa-tg lfa'-sh Li4r
So tina got the ninety dollars, and Sile
, Anderson he ordered origin tn pla twelve
tunes. The origin KUN, and last Sundy
wus the first da tina pladeit. The kwire
practised eyry mite fur two weeks. Sun.
5 DIV mornin the meetin house wus krowded
with foxes who cum tn beer the orgin.-
After while the parson Civ out the him
'.Hark to the organ ssolem sound" Ther
the kwire struck up and Neb kommenced
: grindin the origin. Uvall the musk yr
: ever herd that beat all. The kwire sung
, Old Hundred and the origin wus plain
i 1.-THE gal I left behind me- Eyry boldly
started at the kwire !; bu. thare- tina sot, ;
b singin Old Hundred fur deer life,c whii,
: Neb kept grindin 'the gal | left behind
r me-" dident sa emmy thing, but I WI
wunderin eff tha kalled that addin tu th'
soiemnity. Wal, tina got thru, and til
a parson prayed. Then they struck up. q
5 charge to keep hev," singin Alesberry
q Neb kommenced grindin ava. His tune
J, this time wus 1--WE won't go home till morn
t in" Wal, yu ma CESS how we old fogy
felt. And strange as it seems Nebl tho
. it wus all rite, fur the more wea all looke'
and gazed, the faster he ground his origin
S Kin yu imagin The seen? Wa up in tn
a gallery sot the kwire, abowt twenty-6v
O men and wimmen singin Alesberry, as sol
a emn as Ingin funeral, while the orgil
s wus grindin out wary-um~umfia-re WI
$ wont git home till mornin. So aftel
s preaching, tha sung another him tn ''hom
r sweet home. " "saN Neb ground his orgin ant
{ this time the tune wus ''shoo fi.. Tha
o wus too much. Before tha got thru, the
a parson Civ the partin benedixtion. Tu 81
r that I wus amazed don't haf diskribe m
! feelings. Il wus petrifdestultifde-ossi
fideAtung- tide - p sslSzoi& .sf'G Ss.i"'
S After meetin, everybody WINS tawkil
+ abowt the origin. Neb KUN tu me- ant
! sez he. wpsent that musk solemn? Sol
!, enin, sez it wus worse thar the tower o.
), Babel. SEE l. Neb. efs we are tn he
:. shoe iii and sich tunes in meetin,, yult
> backshde the hole sosiety an Why, seq he
q that is just the accompaniment. Hew
sumeyer, Neb, ;dident feel exactly rit'
abowt it, SO. on Tuesda,. he ,sed he tu- g
: tn town on bizness; and while he WINS cha
= he asked sum fellersahowt lit; and sur
!. enuliff he found out he ksd. got the roni
/ sort of an origin. 4 He he'd bot a regulal
y Italllcn, ,gmonkey danlin orgin- IF eve
> w saw. a foolish looking setny people, tn
3 Zekeyille kwire wus one, s,fss-s- :, -.
III I haven't herd Nv the, kwirc nor orgi
> since. Howsulnsyer, as times are yer
bizzy, / must klose- .-ens ussS s7ssss 80.
III sYoarg, lafiinly, - : q -
!, :. ..a-o-s u ONATHAN]SYKESr
: N. BEE yn 40 NV emmy boldly yh
: wants tn go origin grindin, hin tel 'el
: : where the Kin by anioreln chssP. nj 4ssEs
d a. daily paper advertises for girls f
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