The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-02-03

rose up. The chair that the tenor
/ was in, stuck like a brother, and came
right along and nearly broke his sus-
penders. 1t was the tenor to bat, and
as the great organ struck uphe pushed
the chair oft his person, looked around
to see if he had saved his pants, and
then began to sing, and the rest
of the choir came near bursting
Inc tenor was called out on three
strikes by the umpire, and the alto
had to sail in, and while she was sing
ing, the tenor began to feel first base
TO rec what was the matter. Wien he
got his hand on the warm wax his
heart smote him and he looked dag
gers at the soprano, but she put pi-
Gus Look on and got her mouth ready 10
sing, Hold the Fort" Well, the
tenor sat down Oh white handker-
chief. before he went home, and he
went home without anybody seeing
him, and he has been, as the saying is
laying" for the soprano ever since,
to get even.
1t is customary in AL first class choirs
for the male singers to furnish candy
for the lady singers, and the other day
the tenor went to a candy factory and
had a pepper lozenge made with about
half Il teaspoonful of cayenne pepper
in the centre of it. On Christmas he
took this lozcnge to church and con-
cluded to get even with the soprano,
if he died for it. Candy had been
passed around, and just before the
hymn, Nearer my God to thee,0 was
given eGt in which the soprano was t.
sing a solo, the wicked wretch gave
her the lozengc. She put it in her
mouth and nibbled the edges Of, and
was rolling it in her mouth as sweet
mOrsel, when the organ struck up,
and thev ali arose. While the choir
was skirmishing eli the first part of
tho verse and getting ready for the So
lO, she chewed what WAS left of the
candy aud swallowed it. Well, if a
Democratic torch light procession had
marched unbidden down her throat
she couldn't have beSn more astonished.
She leaned over to pick up her hand
kerchief and spit the candy out, but
there was enough pepper around the esel-
wage of her mouth to have picked
peck of chowchow. It. was her turn
to sing, and she rose and took The book
her eyes filed with tears, her voice
trembled, her face red as spanked lob
stcr, and the way she sung that hvmu
was Il caution. With sweet irenulo
she sung Nearer my God to thee"
and the congregation was almost melt
eI to tears. As she to p,d, while
the organist got III tile WORK, she
Irned her head, opened her mouth and
blew out her breath with ''whosh" to
cool her mouth. The audience saw
her wipe tear away, but did not hear
the sound of her voice rs she ''woozhed''
She wiped out some of the pepper
with her handkerchief and sang the
other verses with good deal Of fervor
and the choir sat down, all of them
looking at the soprano. She called
for water. The noble tenor went and
got it for her, and after she had drank
Il couple ofquarts, she whispered to
him, Young man, l will get even with
you for that peppermint candy if 1
have 10 live Il thousond years, and
don't you forget it." and then all sat
down and looked pious, while the min
ister preached most beautiful sermon
on, Faith" We expect that tenor
will be blowed through the roof some
Sunday morning, and the congregation
will wonder what he is in a hurry for.