Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1872-02-13
Mozls Addums on the Tommus Konserts

MIR, EQltur Deer oer,--l We heerd Blnd
Billy play on the fife. Also I've heerd the
Scots from CbarlutsVille play. And I 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 comm to
lock. And wnnst full brass band cum doun
frum Linchburg to the Buckingam Femsl In
stltute; two trombones, glttar, and corr um,
and l thought knowd sulnthing bout music !;
but didDi.
When | was boy, studdyin Pariy's jogrefy,
] saw a pickcher nv Jermanny sum men With
spectIcles huegin big 6ddes between thar legs,
and l WundeTed what kind Nv peopi them Jer-
mans WIZ But We lived to see that day
I've bin to Iomnuses konserts.
set IL tie hardest cheer perhaps ever in
vented. Sune they come pilin in, 60 real Jer-
nuns with the identikle big Parley's jogrefy
fddels and menny more instruments. 1t dun
me good to sec EN- ariter so long waitin for
EN-. Then Terminus be cum out, made me a
low bow, fiapped his mnsic stand with bis littei
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. L don know either w them girls nor
don't know Kondo, nor Ceeseudo, nor Minny-
endo, nor Shertso, nor Drawso nor large Fac
| totom, nor emmy w en-; but got plaia, hon.
up duO Epfnfii IoStlftS, anu ilSt tsI
| you that the music that Tommus beat out ov
| them 60 Jarmuus with that ar littei ruler
banged out and layed over all the music that
ever heerd or expect to heer. felt sorry
| for Blind Billy, altho he's dead and his life
b Iohgs to nuthar man.
When the bowyers begun to bow with thar
| bows, the horneTs TO morn on thar horns, and
| the uthers TO do thar best on thar respective
| doiuses lit don't matter bout nanes.) all at
| the same time. ike one nan, and the music
| stealed up and up, and spread and spread all
over the house, clean iiroo you, all around you
and inside Nv you, IN your ned and In your
bart, and in that part Of you that you didn' t
know you had till you heard that music. and
you felt you dunno what aad thought you dun
| no what, and you had you dunno what, and
wanted you dunno what, as il heven vas
opened and more were comm, and you
couldn't bar what you had areddy, and the
/ thing wouldn stop bat kept q gettin sWeeter
and sweeter and mere Nv IL. oh my soul and
| boldly, oh my poor siutterin, stammerlng
| tung, my n1iserbui, EuthIess, melted-up brain,
what shell say, and how kin | say it2 1t
carnt be done. Nobody carnt say it.
A man told me, be says:
| "The cum poser NV that piece beat HoVen."
Well [ says, [ III glad Nv it. wish he
| had beat Hoven TO death and then cum arfter
| plenty
| kin cumpare them sweet pieces to nothin'
| but peeches and yung wmmin lxt-peeches
| on top and the young wlGnnllG certainly cumin'
and you knowing that when they cum it II
| be too much for you coz you can't stan 1t,
| but got 10 give up the COST. As Tor them loud
| pieces, they bothers you in a nutber way
| When they ar at thar very loudist, and when
| it pears like heyen and earth, and thunder
and lightning, pestiIence, earthquakes, and
nutmegs, were pitchln headforemost into one
nuther, you amt satisfied, but want more and
more, louder and louder, till 1t can't be no
| louder. Nothin wouldn't satisfy you onless
| twuz two brass uniyerses clasbt together
wharas them soft pieces satisfies you over and
over agin, and eli you could jest carry two
inches Nv the sweetest part Nv one Nv em hon
with you and keep it, it would be enuf tor you.
| It wuz relief to me when Miss krebs come
/ in. She plays the catty-cornefed pianuer
| mighty we'll, and makes such nice curchy.-
| Got plump arms and light har; which l ad-
nire light har and that specie Nv arn. She
imposed us favebiy and We all liked her.
| These here Jermaus Is wunderfqi pepui-
Eff thar is euything they can't do, Id like to
know IL. With Que hand on logger-beer and
the other on Iommus's music, it seems to me
they've cot sort NV a kind Nv all-under holt
on creashun.
/ will say this much for Tommus's konsert
It's the mostist pleazure for the leestist nun.
ny, the biggst pork tor the smallest shiliia, in
the whole World. | am LOCO times obieegeG
to MIR. Tom1nus for cunmln here | ain't
got no money 10 give hin, I'm sorry. to say.
done funded long ago. But promise. on tht
honor NV Virgpyan, to give him ope-thurt
sursifiikit Nv my ortoeraf, drawin pur sen
iatruss seuai oasartinly, arfter the meetin "
the mex Legislacber, before drawin., and paya
BILE one hundurd years from date IN registered
Richmond Rhigs, without keWpons id d.
more ef | could, but m hankruptured so bat
shat can pay my taxes.
Very respectfully,