New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-04-18
4 RUSTIC HIEW OF RUBIMsTEzN.
From The Quarterly Eloewttoaisi.

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Well sir, he had the blamedest, biggest catty@
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bs s Sed sfOfe saS the enr ndes clean o
scattered 'em to the four winds Of heaven.
Played well You bet he did but don't inter
keer mighty little bout playin and wisht be hadnt
come He tweedle-leeded little on the treble, and
twoodle-oodled some on the base Just foolin and
says to man sststin, mex. to me, says sW5st
sort of fool payin' is that And he says, Heishp
But his s pars Il
scamperin' through, q garrett very swift. Parts Of
It was sweet, though, and reminded me Of sugar
sqpN 6M Ts saws t 70 my pss he's sow
He thinks he's a-doin of it but he amt got no dss
no plan Of nOthip'. II he'd play me tune Of soDe
A INT ~ NV peighbor says Heish p very impatient.
/ was just about to git up and go home, beip,5
tired of that foolishness, when heard nstie
sleepy-like to his mate, and looked up and soc
that Ruby was beginning to take some interest "a
his business and sit down again. Il was the pep
walked up in. the orc hard, then some more In the
the h and be s ito
ters Just then the first beam OF the sun fell upon
the blossoms leetle more, and i techt the loses
the sun fairly blazed, the birds sung Ike they'd
split their little throats; all the Leaves wac niovl
and fashn diamonds Of dew and the whoi s w,d9
To me- like there was q good breakfast In every
house in the land, and not q sick child or woman
And f says to my neigGbor: That's music. that
But he glared at me like he'd like to cut my;
Presently the wind turned; 1t begun to .thicken
up and kind Of gray mist came over Things
got STP dtS sss Se drUps se
some flashed up like long, pearl earrings and the
rest rolled away like round rubies. 1t was pretty,
but Then the pearls snd asen
they melted into thin silver streams, running be,
tween golden gravels, and then the streams joined
brook that flowed silent, except that you could
kinder see the music, specially when the bushes on
the banks moved as tho music went along down
a ths S'yb u the sG sap shine he birds
sing; Il was foggy day, but not cold. ,,
onaeI. how like YOU see in pictures, that run ahead
of fhe music brook and Led 1t on, and on, away out
of tho world, where no man ever was, certain; 1
the moonlight came. without any sunset. and shone
on the graveyards, where some few ghosts hfted
their hands and went over the wall, and between
The black sharp-tOp trees splendid marble houses
rose up, with fine ladies in the htup windows, and
men that loved em, but could never get anigh eni.
who played guitars ,U under the tss asd MADE
wanted to love somebody, don't know who, bettor
than the men with the guitars did.
mdaned '1 and duT we T ike lost child dead
mother, and / could a-got up then. and there and
preached better sermon than any eyer . issenod
for, not q blame thing. and yet I din't want the
music to stop one bit. 1t was happier to be miser,,
able than t, be happy without being miserable /
keen me from cryin; NY eyes is weak any .s I
and it's nobody's business what do with my nose.
blazes Then, all Of sudden. old Rpbi I changed
he tared he pranced and no charged like the grand
entry at circus. Feared to me that ali the gas In
the house was turned on at once, things got 80
man in the face, and not afraid Of nothin. IL was
circus, and brass band, and big ball all ,goin'
thousand 1s and Of brick gave em no rest day Or
night; he set every Twin joint in me a-gein and
not bein able to stand It no longer. jumped sprang
onto m my y seat Siss and e jest hollsred'
Every blamed man, woman and child In the
house riz on me and shouted Put him ont! put
"Put your geat-gandmother's grizzly. gray
Rreensh cat into the middle Of next month says.
Tech me II yop . dare! paid my money and You
With that some several policemen run up, and
had to simmer down. But could ait any fool
that laid hands on me, for was bound 10 near naDy
mo had changed his tune again. He hop-light
ladies and tiptoed fine from end to end OF tpe Key
heard tho church bells over the hills. The candles
of heaven was lit one by one; saw the stars rise.
woss end 70 the words end and al
yssts feeling H 1s sS@Sns & ,sss
sweet like tears of JOY falling into lake or glory
It was sweeter than that. IL was "a sweet O. e
silver and sd Diane Il Ws S
sweet. / tell YOU the audience cheered. Rubin no
kinder bowed, like he wanted TO say, Much
obleeged but rather ySn won l p hrp T Th
he got mad. He run his fingers through his hair, no
showed up his sleeve, no opened his. coat tails
and sir he Just went FOR that old panner He slapt
her face, he boxed her jaws, he pulled her nose ne
pinched her ears and he scratched her cheeks unul
she fairly yelled. He knockt her down and ne
stampt on her shameful She beloved, she bleated
like calf she howled like hound, she squeaied
like pig, she slrieked like q rat aud then he
the low grounds Of the base TIM he got clean in the
bowels Of the earth and yon heard thunder gallop,
after hunder through the no9TS ana bsrd
the clouds war the notes finer than the pints Of
t2Ge and e fSs 1eaa e Ss
old pianner 90. He forard two'd, he crost over
first gentleman he chassade right and left back TO
right, promenade all. in and out, here and there.
double twisted and turned and tackled and tangled
into fOrty-eleven thousand double bow knots.
BY jinks! it was Q mixtery. And then DO
wouldn't let tho old panner CO. He fecht up his :
I ssV %Re he S at a BIS s s xnHE h S
no fired by platoOns by company, by regiments, and
by brigades He opened his canion-siege gqna
big guns, little guns, middle-sised guns, round
shot, Shells shrapnels grape canister, mortar, mines
and magazines, every Twin battery and bomb
a-goin Mt the Same time The house trembed, the (
lights danced, the walls shpk, the floor come up
tho ceiin come down, the sky split the ground roke
heavens and earth, creation, sweet pctnf0e1s
in 'simmon-tIee, lump, Tonpson In tumbicsx-
cart roode- deruda -gddie-