Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1879-04-03


hOp-light Indies. tip-toed fine from eend to
eend of the keyboard. He played soti IN
low and solemn. | heard the churci, be Is
over the hills. The candies of heayet.
were lit one by one: | saw the stars rise.
The grand organ Of eternity began to play
from the worlds end to the worlds end
and the angels went to pray. y =
Then the music changed to water. full OF
feeling that conlslnt he thought. and bt :
gan to drop-drip, drop. drip. drop-cleaf
and sweet, like tears Of JOY fillin' into =
lake of glory. 1t WAS sweeter than thst.
1t was as sweet as sweetheart sweetened
with white sugar. mixed with powder sill
YER and seed diamonds. 1t WAS so sweet.
| tell you the audience cheered. Rubin. he
kinder bowed like he wanted to say Much
obleeged. but I'd rather you wouldn't in
terrup' me-
He stopped minute or two to fetch
breath. Then he got mad. He runs his
/ fingers through his hair. he showed up
his sleeves, lie opened his coat tails a leetle
/ further. he drug up his stool. he leaned
over, and. sir. he just went tor that old
/ pianner. He siapt her face. lie boxed het
jaws. lie pulled her nose, he pinchcd her
ears. he scratched her check till she fairly
yelled. He Knocked her down. and lie
Stampt on he shameful She beloved III e
! 3, bull she blpated like a calf. she howl q
like a hound, she sqlealed like a piy. she
Shrieked like a rat. and then he wouldn't
let her up. He ran a quarter stretch't down
the low grounds of the bass, ill he got
clean into the bowels of the earth. and you
heard th"nder galloping after thu der.
| through the hollows and caves of pcryli-
ton; then he foX-chased his right hand
with his left till he got away out of the
treble into the clouds. where the notes was
finer than the pints OF cambric needles.
AM you conlin't herr nothing but the
shadows of en-. And then he wouldn't
let the Old pianner go. He for'aiu two'd.
he crost over the first gentleman. he crOst
over the first lady. he balanced two pards.
he chassade right and left. back to places.
he all-hands'd round. ladies to the right
promenade all, in and out. here and there.
back and forth. up and down. perpetual
molten. double and twisted and turned ard
tackled and tangled into forty leven tkous-
and double bow knots.
by jings. it was a lnixtery. And then
lie wouldn't let the old pianner 90. He
ieclt mp his right wing. he ftrht up his left
wing. he fecht up his center. he techt up
his reserves. He fired by file, he fired by I
platoCns. by companies. by regiments and
by brigades. He open his cannon. siege
guns down thar. Napoleons here, twelve
pounlers yonder, big guns. little guns
nidtlle-size guns. roun' shot. shells. shrap- !
neis. grape. cannister, mortars. mines and (
magazines. every livin' battery and bomb |
a-@0n' ut the same time. The house trem-
bletl, the lights danced. the walls shun the /
floor come up. the ceilin' came down. tn,
sky split. the ground rockt-heaven and I
earth, creation. sweet potatoes, Moses.
ninepence. glory. tenpenny nails. my Mary
Ann. 'allelnjah, Sampson in a 'simmon
tree. Jertoosal'm, lump Thompson in a
tumbler cart. rO0dle-oc;ile-OOd Odle- 90 He
oodle- ddle-udlle-uidlle-udtlle - raddIp-
- riddle le-i(lle-i,l,lie-tltile
ctle-eetle-p-r-l-r-r-la per
lang. per lang. p-r-r-r-r-r-lang. BANG.
with that bang! he lifted himself bold
ly into the ar, and he came down with his
knees, his ten fingers. his ten toes. his e-
bows. and his nose striking every single
solitary key on that pianner at the same
time. The thing busted and went OFF into
seventeen hundred and iifty-seven thous-
md five hundred and fOrty-two lem m,-demi-
semi qGavers. and | know'd no mo-.
when / came to were under ground
ibout twenty foot. in a place they call
Oyster Bay, treatin' Il Yankee that never
aid eyes on before. and never expect TO ,
ign. Day was breakin' by the time got !
o the st. Nicholas Hotel. and pledge t
iou my word | did not know my name.
The man asked me the number of my
'oom. and him. Hot music on the ar fo,. :
no. | pintediy did."-Ne,o York Music /
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