The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-12-10
Jud Br0wnin's Account of Rubin
STEMS Playing.

"Jud, they say you heard Rubinsteln
play when you were in New York"
II did in the COOL"
swell tell us about it,
"What! me2 I might as we'll tell YOU
about the creation of the world"
Come, now, no mock modesty. Go
ahead" go. .. ,.-.
"Well, sir, he had the blamest, biggist,
cattycornedest pianner you ever laid eyes
on; somethin' like distracted billiard.
table on three legs. The lid was hoisted,
and mighty well it wasa it it hadn't
been he'd . tore the entire inside clean
out, and scattered 'em to the tour winds
of heaven" t.: .s.-...@.
"Played we'll, did heg" '.""-
"You bet he did! but don't interrupt
me. When he first sit down, he 'pea1ed
to keer mighty little bout playin', and
wished he hadn't come. He tweedle-
leede'd little on the treble, and twoodle-
oodle'd some on the bass-just foolin'
and boxin' the, things jaws for bein' in
his way. And I says to q man settin'
next to me, 81: "What sort of foel
playin' is thata' And he says, 'Heish =
but presently his hands commenced
chasin' ono another up and down the keys
Like pascal of rats scamperin' through
q garnet very swift. Parts of it was sweet,
though, and reminded me of sugar
squirrel turnin' the wheel of . CANDY
cage.
Now" I says to my neighbor, "he's
shown of, he thinks he's dom of it,
but he amt got no ,dee, no plan of no.
thin; If he'd play me tune of some
kind or other Id
'But my neighbor says 'Heishv very
impatient.
II was just about to git up and go
home, bein' tired of that foollshness,
when I heard little bird waking up
away in the woods, and call, sleepy-like,
to his mate, and I looked up and see that
Rubin was beginning to take some in
terest in his business, and sit down again.
It was the peep of day; the light came
faint from the east, the breezes blowed
gentle and fresh, some more birds wake d
up in the orchard, then some more in the
trees near the house, and all begun sing
in together. People began to stir, and
the gal opened the shutters. Just then
the first beam of the sun foil upon the
blossoms leetle more, and it techt the
roses on the bushes, and the next thing
it was broad day; the woods fairly blaz-
ed, the birds sung like they'd split their
little throats; all the leaves was wavin'
and flashin' diamonds of dew, and the
whole wide world was brigh: and happy
as king. Seemed to me there was a
good breakfast in every house in the land,
and not q sick child or woman anywhere;
it was a fine mornin'. =
"And I says 10 my neighbor, That's
music, that is ~ :.
"But he glared at me like he'd like to
cut my throat. .' q. ~.e..-
Presently the wind turned; it begun to
thicken up, and kind of gray mist came
over things. got low.spirited directly.
Then silver rain began to fall. could
see the drops touch the ground; some
flashed up like long pearl earrings, and
tie rest rolled away like round rubies. It
was pretty, but melancholy. Then the
pearls gathered themselves into long
strands and necklac 70, and then theY
melted into thin silver streams, running
between golden gravels; and then the
streams joined each other at the foot OF
the hill, and made brook that flowed
silent, except that you could kinder see
the music, specially where the bushes on
the banks moved as the music went
along down the valley. could smell
the flowers In the meadow. Bnt the sun