The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1879-03-19

oiVhOu ~ hVoV " NY u, tiNiht VI llli (.
Ny eyesis weak anyway 4 didn't
want anybody to be q gain at me a
snivlin', and its nobodys business
what ! dowith my nose. Its mine.
But several glared at me, mad as
/ Tucker
Then, all Of sudden, old Ruben
changed his tune. He ripped and
he rar'd, he tipped and tar'd, he
pranced and he charged, like the
grand entry at. a circus. 3Peared to
me that all the gas in the e1house was
turned on at once, things got SO
bright, and | hilt upmy head, ready
tolook any man in the face, and not
afraid Of nothin'. 1t was. a circus,
and brass band, and a big ball, all
goin' on at the same time. He lii
into them keys like thousand of
brick; he give 'em no rest, day nor
night; he set every livin' jint in
me a-goin'; and not bein able to
stand it no longer, | jumpt sprang
onto my seat and jest hollered;
"Go Il, my Rube"
Every blamed man, woman and
child in the house riz on me and
shouted, put him out. put him out"
"Pnt your great.grandmother's
grizzly greenish cat into the middle
Of next MONTH" | says "Teeh me
if you darl | paid my money and you
just come a.nigh me-"
With that some p'liceman stepped
up, and | had to simmer down. But
! would aft any fool thatlaid hands
l!on'me, for Twas bonndto toihear Ruby
out or die.
HE had changed his tune agin.-
.He hopt-light and tiptoed fine from
eend to eend of the keyboard.
Heplayed soft, and low, and solemn.
| heard the church bells over the
hills. The candles in heaven were
lit, One by one | saw the stars rise
The great organ of eternity began to
play from the worlds end to the
worlds end, and all the angels went
to prayers. Then the music chang
ed to water, full of feeling that could
not be thought not less told about,
and began to drop, drip, drop, drip,
drop-slear and sweet, like tears of
JOY fallin' into u lake Of glory, 1t
was sweeter than that. 1t was sweet
us a sweetheart sweetin' sweetness
with white sugar mkt with powder
ed silver and seed diamonds. II was
too sweet. | tell you the audience
cheered, Reuben he kinder bowed,
like he wanted to say, Much obleeg-
ed, but I'd rather you wouldn't in
terrup' me-"
"He stopt mint or two to fetch
breath. Then he got mad. He ran
his fingers thro' his har, he showed
up his sleeves, he opened his coat
tails a little further, be drug up his
stool, he leaned over and, sir, he just
went for that old pianner. He slapt
her face, he boxed her jawe, he pull
ed her nose, he pinched her ears, and
scratched her cheeks till she fairly
yelled. He knocked her down and
he stomped her shameful. She bel
lowed like a bull, she bleated like a
calf, she howled like hound, she
sqnealed like pig, she shrieked like
a rat, and then he wouldn't let her
up. He run quarter-stretch down
the low grounds of base, till he got
clean into the bowels of the earth,
and you heard thunder gallopin' af-
ter thunder thro' the hollows and
caves of perdition; and then he fox.
chased his right hand with his left,
till he got away out of the treble in
to the clouds, whar the notes was
finer than the pints of cambric
needles, and you couldn't hear moth
in but the shadders of 'em. And
then he wouldn't let the old pianner
so. He for'ard,twod, he crossed over
first gentleman, he crost over first
lady, he balanced to pards, he chas-
saed right an left, back to places,
all hands 'roun', ladies to the right,
prominade all, in,and out, here and
thar, back and forth, up and down,
perpetual motion, double and twist
ed, and tied and turned and tackled
aud tangled into forty-seyen thous-
and double bow,knots.
By jings! it was a mixtery. And