The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-04-19

pu1ienee cheefed Ruben ho kinder bowed
like be wanted to say, Much obliged, out
ia rather Won wouldn't interrup me.
.lHa stont a minute or two to fetch
brao,b Then he got mad. He run his
6ngers through his har, he showed up ms
aIasvas he oDened his coat tails little
fnrther he dug up his stool, he leaned over,
and cir he lust went for that old pianner.
Ha slant her face, he pinched her ears, and
he scratched her cheeks till she fairly yelled
He knocked her down and he stompt on
her shameful. She beloved like bull,
she bleated like calf. and she howled like q
hound, she squeeled like pig, she shrleked
like rat. and then he wouldn't let her up.
He run a ouarter-stretch down the low
grounds of the base, till he got clean into
the bowels of the earth, and you heard
thunder galloping after thunder through
fine hollows and caves of perditlon; and
then he fox.chased his right hand with his
left. tell he got away out Of the TRIBE into
the clouds, Whar the notes was finer than
the pints of cambria needles, and you
couldn'thear nothin' but the shadders of'em.
And then he wouldn't let the old pianner
90. For'ard-two'd, he crost over nrst gen,
tlman. he crost over first lady, he balanced
to pards, he chassade right and lett, oack
to your places, he all hands around, ladles
to the right. promenade all, IN ana OUT
here and thar, back and forth, up and down,
perpetual motion, double and twisted ana
tied and turned ond tackled and tangled
into forty>'leven thousand double DOW
knots. BY jings! it was mixtery. And
then he wouldn't let the old pianner go.
He fetcht up his right wing, he tetcht up
his centre, he fetcht up his reserves. lie
fired by file, he fired by platoons, by com
pany, by regiments and by brgades. lie
opened his cannon, siege-guns down tnar
Napoleons here, twelve Founders yonder,
big guns, little guns. middleslze guns
roun Shot, shells, shrapnels, grape, CAMS
ters, mortars, mines ond magazines, every
livin' battery and bomb a-goin at the same
time. The houses trimbled, the lights
danced, the walls shuk, the floor come up,
the celin come down, the sky spit, tne
ground rockt; heavens and earth, creatlon,
sweet potatoes, Noses, nine-pences,. glory,
ten-penny nails, my Mary Ann, hallelu]ah,
sweet Caesar in a simmon tree, JeroosaI m,
lump and Thompson in tumoler>cart
roodle-oodle- oodle- oodle-oodle- ruddIe I'd
dle-uddle. uddle-u Idle raddle- saddle addie-
addle>addle riddle>iddle -iddle--iddle--lddle-
reetle- eetle-eetle-eetIe-e etIe-p-f-r-l-l-lah
BANG
with that bang he lifted hisself bodily
into the ar, and he come down with bis
knees, his ten fingers, his ten toes his
elbows, and his nose, striking every single,
solitary key on that pianner at the same
time. The thing busted, and went OIL INTO
seventeen hundred and fifty-seven thousand
five hundred and forty-two hemi-demi-semi
quivers, and I know'd no mo" i
''When come to l were under ground
about twenty foot, in a place they call
Oyster Bay, treatin Yankee that never
laid ewes on before, ard never expect to |
agin. Day was breakin' by the time
cot to the St. Nicholas Hotel, and pledge |
you my word didn't know my name. The
man asked me the number of my room, and
told him, Hot music on tue half Shell for
t,coP Ipintedly did. MOSES ADAMS