The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-06-27

like there was a good breakfast IN
every house in the land. and not a sick
child or woman anywhere. 1t was a
fine mornin'.
And | says to my nei,ibor, That's
music, that IS.
But he glared at ne like led like
to cut my throat.
Presently the wind turned, 1t be-
gun to thicken up, and a kind of gray
mist come over things: | got low
spirited directly. Then a silver ram
began TO fall. | could see the drops
touch the ground: some flashed up ike
pearl earrings, and the rest rolled away
like round rubies. 1t was pretty, but
melancholy. Then the pearls gathered
themselves into long strands and neck
laces, and then they melted into thin
silver streams, running between golden
grayels, and then the streams joined
each other at the bottom OF the hill,
and made a brook that flowed silent,
except that you could kinder see the
music, especially when the bushes on
the bank moved as the music went
along down the valley. | could smell
the flowers in the meadow. But the
sun didn't shine, nor the birds sing; IL
was a foggy day, but not old. Inc
most curious thing was the little white
angel boy. like 0 see IN pictures,
that run ahead OF the music brook,
and led 1T on, and on, away out OF the
world, where no man ever Was-i never
was, certain. | could see that boy
lust as plain as | see you. Then the
moonlight came, without any sunset,
and shone on tue g~raveyards, where
some few ghosts lifted their hands and
went over the wall: and between I G
black, sharp-top trees splendid marble
houses rose up. with tine ladies III the
iit-up windows. and men that loved
'em but could never git a'nigh EN-, and
PLAYED on guitars under the trees, II
made me that miserable | could have
cried, because | wanted to love some
BODY, | don't know who, better than
the men with guitars die. Then the
sun went down, it got dark, the wind
moaned and wept like a lost child for
its dead mother, and | could a got up
then and there and preached a better
sermon than any | ever listened to-
There wasn't a tnmg IN the world lett
to live for, not a blamed thing, and
vet | didn't want the music to stop one
bit. 1t was happier to be miserable
than to be happy without being mise
rable. | couldn't understand it. l
hung my head and pulled out my
| a. diitl " - iAopS
loud to keep from erwin. My eyes is
weak, any way: didn want anybody
to be gaia a. me a snivelln, and Its
nobody's business what | do with my
nose: its mine. But some several
glared at me mad as blazeS. Then, all
Of a sudden, old Rubin changed his
tune. He ripped and lie rar'd, he
tipped and he tar'd, he pranced and he
charged Ike the grand entry at a cir
Gus. Feared to me that all the gas in
the house was turned on at once, things
got so bright, and | hit up my head,
ready to look any man IN the face, and
not afeared Of nothin.' Ii was q circus.
and a brass band, and a big ball, all
goin' on a. the same time. lie lit into
them keys like a thousand OF brick.
he give 'em no rest. day nor night; he
set every Ivin' Joint III me a gOin,'
and not beiu' able to tand it no longer,
| jumpt, sprang on to my seat, and
jest hollered
"'Go 1t my ReUJe.r
Every blamed man, woman, ana
child in the house RI on ms and
shouted:
Put him out put him out =
Put your great grandmOthers
grizzly gray greenish cat into the mid
die OF next month | says. Tech me
if you dare. | paid my money, and
you just come nigh me!
~ it'll that, some several policemen
, Fan up, and / had to simmer down.
But | would have lit any fool that laid
hands on me, for / was bound to heal
Ruby out or die.
He had changed his tune again
He hopt-Lght ladies and tip-toed fine
from eend TO eend of the keyboard
He played soft and low. and solemn
h ard the church bells over the hills
The caudleS IL heaven was lit, one by
one; L saw the stars rise. The Qrea1
organ IF eternity began to play from
| tie worlds II to the worlds end, ant
. all the angels went to prayers.
. \ Then the music changed to'water
full of feeling that couldn't be thought
J, and began TO drop, drip, drop, drip
Il drop-clear and sweet, like the tear
a OF Joy falllD' INTO a lake OF glory. [
was sweeter than that. It was a
4 sweet as a sweetheart sweetened will
e white sugar III Ned with powdereC
silver and seed-diamonds. Ii was to,
sweet. l tell YOU the audience cheered
Rubin he kinder bowed, like he wanted
: 10 say, Much o~bleeged, but Id rathe
e you wouldn't interrupt me-
1t lie stopped a minute or two t
e ketch breath. Then he got mad. H
:, run his fingers through his hair. h
sc showed up his sleeve, he opened hi
5 coat-tails a leetle further, he drug u
s his stool, he leaned over, and ST., Ii
1t just went for that old %pianner. II
e slapt her face, he boxed her jaws, Ii
Is pulled her nos, he pinched her ear,
p and he scratched her cheeks till sh
ii fairly yelled. lie knocked her dowr
- onl no cto,,n+ 90 Ia, CIa,nf,l SI
J., beloved like a bull, she bleated Xix
Ell a calf, she howled like a hound. sh
squealed like a pig, she shrieked lik
5 a rat, and then he wouldn't let her III
t, He ran a quarter stretch down the 10,
Of grounds of the base, till he got clea
Of into the bowels of the ealth. and vo
heard thunder galloping alter thunde