The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1883-07-19
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He WANTS TO JOIN THE
BAND.

he has borrowed or owns q brass
horn. A boy goes to acounty fair
and sees band, hired from a neigh
boring town, and each member of
the band is a hero in the eye OF the
boy. He sees the blue coats, with
gold lace, the epaulets, the cap,
with its musical frontpiece, and the
yellow stripe down the trousers,
and he resolves to learn to play a
horn. He sees the crowd collect
around the band stand as the band
plays tune, and notices the snare
drummer cock his hat on one side
of his head and look at all the girls,
and the young man is most inclined
to learn to play the drum instead
of the horn, as he argues that play
ing the drum gives one a better
opportunity to look around; but
when he reflects that it requires
brain and wind to play horn, he
decides on o horn. And when the
band is marched off to the dining
hall at the fair, and given a place
at the head of the table, near the
orator of the day, who has his ora
ton in his pocket and is afraid he
| will lose it, and sees the crowd col
leet around the band, his mind is
made up more firmly than ever to
play horn.
He goes home and dreams of the
band, and the next day he goes to
| work and sells calf, or takes some
of the money he earned harvesting,
and buys a brass horn and 9 book
of notes that he does not know the
name of. He has been to singing
| school, and can read singing notes
but horn notes are toe. rich for his
blood. ( He does not tell his family
what he has done, but smuggles
his horn into the barn and
when he has got the milking done,
and fed the stock, he goes ont to
the barn and gets into the hay
NOW and feels of the keys. He
finally musters up courage to blow
gently into the horn, and he hears
noise that is a cross between the
squeal of q pig caught underla gate
and the below of a COW that smells
blood and paws the turf and looks
sassy in the pasture. HI blows
gently until he has got SO he can
make straight noise that does not
split up the back and go out Of the
instrument both ways, and thefolks
lin the house begin to hear it.
Then he concludes that he will see
how much the instrument will
stand, and he draws in lis breath
and blows for all that is out, and
as the dlseordant abla-.-t" goes
out upon the sitting air q the hay
NOW, and he feels setsation at
the butt of the ears thafnakes him
think a mule has kicked him, and
he hears the horses down stairs
kicking in the stalls, and the COWS
are lowing as though they had
heard bad news, ald the faithful
dog that he has left ont doors, be.
gins to howl as though there was
going to be death n the family
Then the beginner begins to re-
alize that he is making a sensation,
and he look out Of a crack in the
barn towards the house and he sees
his mother standing on the porch
| with her apron over her lead look.
ing at the barn as though it was
OF fire, the hired man, whois pump
ing water stops with the pump
handle in the air, and he sees his
fatbelin his shirt sleeves, pick up
az ak hendle and start for the barn,
S4oeating on his hands and looking
!. He sees neighbor who
|. = by, stop his team at the
0 house andIsk dsk if there is anybody
s;oL ord ba slizes that it is i'm
:n, Sl'A aho 10 his secret slonger,
}. possible 10 kees out of the hay
and he comes dow ID h;s
NOV with his brass NSrn unasl s his b:s
arm, sheepish, and co6S 49,, :
outraged family that hen -.
ing to play horn SO he cssss :,
the band. His father tells him b
is a blasted fool, but his mothe
) and his sister take his part and al
que that it will be a great honor t.
have him wear brigadier,generaF
clothes in the band, and th
matter is compromised by allowing
him to practice on his.R horn out ii
the south lot, and fora week or two
at intervals, mournful sounds ar
heard from that directions, and thel