The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-03-14

you neck-ten thowsand dollar fiddles is
thick ware cum from. He growled up
s. down on the big string whist he screw
ed it up s. didn't spit on the pegs to make
ii stick like moste. Then he lade his
hankchifr on the peanner like he sed to the
people this is great fun for you but as for
me wy 1 shal swet. Wen he copmenced
to pla the eggsentrick dutchmin quit.
Smokey ses hese usin bran new instru-
mint made out West hole you're tung 1 tole
him an lissened. He started on a easy
gate and KEEP working up gradule. Fust
it was like singin butiful on then like
church. I shet my eyes & seen lots of
things like onct wen went to a pamram-
my of Pilgrims progres. All of sudden
he changed off like his spinal marrer cord
wus hitchedkto lectric battery so fas you
couldn't keep track. Hede grovel down
on the base a mint and then go up high
like q roket til you could see the tale. The
notes flied aroun thickern hairs on dog
like morne fifty fddles. never see any
thing like it. give him rope ses Smokey.
thot if he KEEP on gettin up steme that
hede bust trace & he did rite in the mid
die. He went an woke up the dutchmin
wich wus asleap s. tole him doan set thare
like ded wax figger the peple will have
the laff on you, cum in the dressin room
till put nuther string on. Wen he
cum back & finished the people wus crazy
vile s. made him do another. The next
was sollum immense. 1t sounded lonesum
& the fiddle beginned to cry like a girl.
The more it cride the more he KEEP on max
ing it till / wus sorry. The fiddle ses here
hold on lemme up 1 got enuf you are
squeezin the life out of me but he didn't
have no mercy & KEEP on. Talk about your
weepin an wallin & nashion of teeths she
cride till she got the hiccups it was fereful.
The more the fiddle begged the more he
barred down & KEEP on drawin the tears out
like rane till the fiddles hart was broke
so it couldn't stand it no longer an died.
Then it changed like its COST cum back to
hant him. 1t cum shivering like wen the
lites is turn low g. The woman is puissen
in the theter in cole blood & is goin TO be
berrid. Cole shivers creeped up my back
& made me homesick like las summer wen
I wus before the recorder for in swimmin
q thot 1 got to go to Jail. only cry
wen / was lick but this time did. Bime-
by the gost tapered off in the distance lik
in the turkeys patroal & sounded way off
behine the wood shed till you couldn't
hardly hear, but Riminji still KEEP 1t goin
firern silk. Then it cum marchin back
lowder on a other tune wen it let out like
a hull brass ban, same as the fiddle ses
April fool ole man wus only plane off
ded fur fun s. now / cum to life again, till
you couldn't set still. He plade some fun
nv businesses after that ware he made it
go like hurdy gurdy on Roryo more till
you could see the monkey drest up in red
close takin off his hat fur pennies. He kep
that fiddle buissyrn house afire. He rat
tied the stringslike pop corn-theu made
it go like wissil. Next it was comic lik
a cat fite mornes hundred, an home
swete home and the fishers hornpipe was
both goin to wunct. Snorkey got egsited
and hollered whoa blaze rite out but he
couldn't help it it was hull volcaner of
music speshully the las tune wIch 1 thot
hede cut his brindle fiddle in too.
A mouth origin is n. G. am goin TO by
fiddle for 90. kno ware can get ros-
ON all 1 want down to the saw mill is
hull barl. 1 can lik any feller wot wude
holler go up old baldy to Riminji.