Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1881-02-17
THE NAUGHTY BUT NICE CHURCH
CHOIR.

The NAUGHTY BUT NICE CHURCH
CHOIR.
You may organize church choir
and think you have got it down fine,
and that every member Of it is pious
and full of true goodness, ..and in
such moment as you think not you
will tindsthat one or more of them is
full of the old Harry, and it will
break out when you least suspect it.
There is no more beautiful sight to
the student of nature than a church
choir. To see the members sitting
together, demure. devoted and piOus-
looking, you think that there is
never thought enters their mind
that is not connected with inging
anthems but sometimes YOU get left.
There is one church choir in MliWau-
q choir can be. Gt has been organiz-
ed for long time. and never has
quarreled, and the congregation
swear by it. When the choir strikes
I devotional attitude it is enough to
make an ordinary christian think OF
the angel band above, only the ma
singers wear whisKers, and the fe-
males wear fashionable clothes.
You would not think that This
choir played tricks on each other
during the sermon, but sometim es
they do.
The choir is furnished with the
numbers OF the hymns that are to
be sung, by the minister, and they
put a book mark in the book at the
proper place. One morning they
all got up to sing, when the soprano
turned pale as an ace o. spades
dropped out of her hymn-booh, the
alto nearly tainted when a queen OF
hearts dropped at her feet, and the
rest of the pack were distributed
around in the other books. They
| laid il on the tenor, but he sw0re.
while the minister was preaching,
that he didn't know one card from
another.
One morning last SUNNI I, after
| the tenor had been playing tricks
all the spring on the rest OF the
choir, the soprano brought a chunk
! Of shoemaker's wax to church. The
| tenor was arrayed iike Solomon, in
all his glory, with white pants and a
| Seymour coat. The tenor got up to
see who the girl Was that came in
with the o,d lady. and while he was
up the soprano put the shoemaker S
wax on the chair, and the tenor Sd t
down on it They ali saw it, and
they waited for the result, it was an
awful long prayer, and the church
was rot, the tenor was no iceberg
| himself, and the Shoemakers wax
melts at 9Se Fahrenheit The min
ister finally got to the amen and
| read n hymn, the choir cOuGhed and
all rose up. The chair that the ten
| or was in stuck to him like a broth
er, AMI came right a'ong and near
ly broke his suspenders 1t was the
tenor to bat, and as the great or.
gan struck up he pushed the chair
off his person, looked around to see
if he had saved his pants, and be
gan to sing, and the rest of the
choir came near bursting. The
tenor was called out Oh three strikes
by the umpire, and, the alto had to
sail in, and while she was singing
! the tenor began to feel Of first base
to see what was the matter. When
he got his hand on the shoemaker g
warm wax his heart sm5te him and
he looked daggers at the soprano,
but she put on pious look and got
her mouth ready to sing "Hold the
i Fort Well the tenor sat down on
a white handkerchief, before he
went home, and he got homa, with
out anybody seeing him, and he has
been, as the saying is, ''laying" for
| the soprano ever since to get even.
1t is customary in all Arst-class
choirs for the male singers to fur
nish candy for the lady singers, and