The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-02-05
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Mr.. EDlTUR: DEER SER-Ive heerd
Blind Billy play on the fife. Also I've
heerd the Scots from Charlutsville play
And knowd Old Joe Swinny SO well
that | knowd even his dogs. Besides
| that I've heerd the tubbacker horns and
the packit horns at night coming to a
lock. And wunst a full brass band
cum doun frum Linchburg to the Buck
ingam Femail Institute; two trombones
gittar, and a corum, and i thought
knowd sumthing bout music; but
didn't.
When | was a boy, studdyin Party q
jogrefy, saw a pickcher Nv Jermanny,
sum men with specticles huggin bic
fiddels between thar legs, and ]
Numbered what kind NV peopil them
Jermans wuz. But I've lived to see
that day. I've bin TO Tommuses Kon'
serts.
Il set in the hardest cheer perhap;
ever invented. Sune they come pilir
in, 60 real Jermuns with the identikle
big Parley's jogrefy fiddels, and menny
more instruments. 1t dun me good tc
see EN- arfter so long waitin for EN-
Then Tommus he cum out, made me q
low bow, tapped his music stand with
his littel ruler, faced roun, shood his
men to silence with both hands, faced
sideways, tapped his ruler agin, and the
thing begun.
The papers talk bout Ann Dante and
Addie Geeo | don't know either Nv
them girls; nor | don't know Rondo
nor Cresendo, nor Minneyendo, nol
Shertso, nor Drawso, nor large Facto
tum, nor emmy NV EN-; but got plain
honist, up and down Fomvil feeins, and
jist tell you that the music The Tom
mus beat out wv them 60 Jermuns with
that ar littel ruler banged out and layed
over all the music that ever | heard or
expect to hear. ! felt sorry for Blind
Billy, altho he's dead and his fife
| b longs TO a nuther man.
When the bowyers begun to bow with
thar bows, the horners to horn on thar
horns, and the uthers to do thar best on
thar respective doinses Git don't matter
bout names, all at the same time, like
one man, and the music stealed up and
up, and spread and spread all over the
house, clean throo you, all around you
and inside OF you, in your he'd and in
your hart, and in that part Of you that
you didn't know you had till you heard
that music, and you felt you dunno
what and thought you dunno what, and
you had you dunno what, and wanted
YOU dunno what, as il heven was opened
and more were a comm, and you couldn't
bar what you had alreddy, and the
thing wouldn't stop but kept a gettin
sweeter and sweeter and more Nv it, oh !
my soul and body, oh my poor stut-
term, stammerin tung, my miserbul,
wuthless, melted-up brain, what shell |
say, and how kin | say it9 1t carnt be
done. Nobody carnt say it.
A man told me; he says:
The cumposer Nv that piece beat
Hoven. "
well" l says, I'm glad Nv it. /
wish he had beat Hoven to death and
then cum arfter me, for / don't want to
live any longer. ] got plenty"
kin cumpare them sweet pieces TO
nothin' but peeches and yung wimmin
mlxt-peeches on top and the yung
vimmin certnly cumin, and you a
KNOWN that when they cum it will be
too much for you; COZ you can't stand
it, bat got to give up the COST. AS for
them loud pieces, they bothery you in q
nuther way. When they ar at thar
very loudist, and when it pears like
heven and earth, and thunder and
lightning, pestilence, earthquakes, and
nutmegs, were pitchin headlormost into
one nuther, you aint satisfied, but you
want more and more, louder and louder,
till it can be no louder. Nothin
wouldn't satisfy you onless twas two
brass universes clashed together
wharas them soft pieces satisfies you
over and over agin, and ef you could
jest carry two inches Nv the sweetest
part Nv one Nv EN- home with you and
keep il, it would be enuf for you.
ltwuz relief to me when Miss Kreba
come in. She plays the cattycornered
pisnner mighty well, and makes such q
nice curchy. Got plump arms and
light har; which / admire light har and
that specie nv arm. She impressed
US faverbly and We all liked her.
These here JermaDs is q wunderful
pepul. Ef thar is enything they can't
do, Tdlike to know it. With one hand
on logger beer and the other on Tom
uss music, 1t seems to me they've got q