The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-06-21
CuIpepper's Serenade.
From tie ciIcirns;i Ezguirer.'

G. Claude Culpepper csme down
from Dayton, "Wednesday evening
with an intention. During the bright
Lexington of youth he had met Bay
millers.reet l.elie, sLo smoie him heart
and soul. Mr.. Ca!pepI*r's intention
ia coming 10 Cincinnati Was IN serensde
bis love. -. gathering 9Gartetto Of
h's tuneful friends, be started Wednes-
day evening for the house Of bis heart
idol. Il, was - O'Clock when the boys
anchored under the window o! what c,
Claude believed was the sheitering fold
Of his dear lalnb. Il wasn't. however.
He had male = mistake Of one hundred
in numbering the houses. and il was
John Sanscripts ; humbl aboie that was
about to be favored with . serenade
John. however, is one of those inisan-
thropic men who never seem ~ recog-
nize a favor when they meet one; and
when be was awakened from his slum-
hars by Don't you remember sweet
Alice, Ben Bolt." sung in one treble,
one tenor. two basses and four keys. he
was. TO draw il mild. ru.iied in his
temper Mrs. Sanscript heard the
melody. too. and whispered
'Then's serenaders'
III sersnade them snarlei John,
getting up. opening the blinds slyly.
and looking down upon the choristers
below
'Wha. in the name OF the Numidian
lion are you going TO do. Sanscript :
asked Mrs. S, rather uneasily.
Just wait and see. said be. gathering
up All armful of boots aud laying them
down handy near the window.
Just then the boys tuned up on
Thou art SO near aud yet SO far
Not so far ss you imag. me, growlej
sanscrft. as he dumped the coal from
the ,cuttle conveniently by the win
dow. Taen he tugged the brimming
it to his armory just As the gay gam
boilers switched off into
What has q poor girl
But her name TO defend herr
she sometimes firds her father docs
that pleasaD. duty. muttered the des.
per,te man. The boys were singing
= medley. aud while singing Sanscript
was gathering IN the tongues aud
shovels. they began - warb'e:
My hcait is broke. Goi knows it Is >
'And your head. will be- in the same
condition when | get through with you.
painted the avenger. Then he added
the family Bible and Webster's Tn
abridged Dictionary to the pile of mis-
siles by the window at the very moment
there tioated up from below:
i shall ne'er forget the day
Nor will you ever forget the night
When you came TO serenade my house,
smiled the old man, reaching for the
coal oil can
oh, my heart IS gone
Fang the boys under the window.
Yes, and II you saw me piling up
these bricks from the fireplace, you'd
follow your heart mia hty d. q.
'Thou ait sleeping. my love;
Thou art sleeping
eliimed the quarette
I'll be---!:' AN declared San
script. as be scooped up the hair brushes
aud toilet set from the dressing case
While he WAS totng the ottoman across
the room the boys pit he'd into
oh. I'll never forget you, never fear,
And you won't forget me either after
I'm through with you
Open the window, my sweet ene,'
Sang the choristers
'Damme if | don't grinned San
cript. as be added painful Of ashes tn
the pile of destruction by the windc W.
Come birdie, come
I'm coming. you yelping hounds,
yelled the old man. thrus,ing his head
out of the window 1t took Inn only
ten seconds of standard time 10 pitch
boots. shoes. coal. hair brushes. books
toilet sets. ottoman. slops. ashes and all
upon the heads of the horror-sirickan
serenadcrs below Before the quar-
tet;e realized the situation. the storm
was over They ali survi. J. but were
numerically dcmoralixed And when
voice came from above articula;ing in
tho key If j the old word git they
got