The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-11-28
SISTER SCOTT'S STORY.
BY MRS. J. NJ. EMERY.

I am powerful fond of music. When
l was only knee-high to grasshopper,
l used to foller all the hand-organs that
come inter the place. And them men
that squeeze something under their
arms, and make such squealing, fun
nv noise, were alluEs sure of Citing all
my pennies. And here am / Deacon
Scott's wife, and oughter be settled
down reading the blessed Bible, and
thinking of my latter days, yet here |
am ready to upset everything, and run
after the first strain of music hear, if
it is nothing but a jews-harp.
Brother Jones lives next door, and
belongs to our church. He has taken
it in his head to buy pianner for his
girl Sarah Maria. A powerful nice girl
is Sarah Maria, but awful proper;
wouldn't do anything that was bit
naughty; never had any fellows hang
ing round after her. Everybody likes
her, and so do |.
She has beentaking lessons on the pi-
amer from the observatory, and great
professor comes here and plays till am
eenamost carried away. But how he
does bang away on the new pianner!
!. think brother Jones is queer to let
him go on at such rate He'll be 60
ing Just as soft and nice, and all at
once he will hit the pianner as though
he had got mad at something.
One night sat at my winder listen
ing; all at once thought I'd go in and
hear all could. Invent right in. The
professor was there, and so was Sarah
Maria They were very perlite-gave
me a chair-and | began talking to the
professor about music. Says he:
"Will you favor us with song, Miss
Scott, or something on the piannerp"
says
81 did not bring my music, and |
have bad cold; please exqueeze me-"
He smiled and gave Sarah Maria a
very knowing look.
| asked him to favor me with some
music.
(Which shall it be, vocal or instru-
mentalp'
81 will have a little of both" says |.
thought was safe in saying that.
He asked me if ] was fond Of oproar
music. l said | had been in so few OPP
roars l did not know
Thereupon he commenced singing
about dreaming he lived in marble
halls" Then he looked straight at
Sarah Maria, and kept saying 'that he
loved her. that he loved her just the
same" thought he acted funny, but
it was oproar music, and of course
was prepared TO hear him come down
on the pianner as though he was smash.
ing it all to pieces.
Sarah Maria asked me if / liked that's
said
"Oh, yes! 1t was splendidn'
allurs noticed that everybody praises
what they don't understand in com.
pany; and the deacon is allurs telling
me not to criticise other people.
Says the professor
Can play you anything else, Miss
Scott?"
/ thanked him perlitely, and told him
to keep right on; when ] was tired III
tell him to stop. Thereupon he com
menced on something else, and | COM
menced to keep time, first with one fut
then with my hands then with my whole
body. The music kept playing and keep
az ding. Sarah Maria kept laughing
and at last down come the professor or
the pianner, and down / went on thu
sofy, more dead than alive. thought
was bewitched, and after I came II
life leetle said -
"What have you done to me, profes
sorP"
"How do you like itp'' says he.
| ~ guess / will like 1t when get use(
to it,"
He said he played "a thousand ant
one nights shouldn't you think he't
get tiredP
/ felt kinder played out, so thought
I'd go down inter the dining-room ant
see Brother and Sister Jones. There
they sot, he reading one of them lying
newspapers, she darning stockings
He read about three men breaking .
bank. Jest as il three men could break
one Of them great big stone buildings
II would take m0re'n three score Il
break one Of them houses to pieces