The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-01-03
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brass horn. A boy Egesf Or 3 spgs,s
| fair and sees band, hired ffoss 8 coSInsY
boring town, and each member oS' H. H.
band is q hero in the eye of the boy.
| he sees.the blue coats, with gold lace,
the epaulets, the cap, with iss musical
frontpiece, and the yellow stripe down
the trousers, and he resolves to learn to
play thorn. He sees the crowd collect
around the bapd.stand az the band plays
q tune, and notices the snare drummer
COCK his bat on one side of his head and
iook at all the girls, and the young mae
is most inclined to learn to play the
drum instead of the horn, as he argues
that playing tho drum gives one a better
opportunity to look around but when
he reflects that it requires brain and
wind to play horn, he decides ca a
horn. And when the band "a marched
of ~ The dining.haii at the fair, aud
given place at the head of the table.
near the orator of the day, who has his
oration in his pocket and Is afraid he
will lose 1t, and sees the crowd collect
around the band, his mind is made M
more firmly than ever to play horn.
He goes home and tams of the
band, and the next day ba goes 10 work
and sells calf, OF takes some Of the
money he earned harvesting, and buys a
brass horn aud 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 too rich for his
blood. He does not tell his family what
he hes done, but smuggles his horn into
the barn and when he has got the milk.
ing done, and fed the stock, he goes out
to the barn and gets into the hay NOV
and feels of the keys. He finally mus.
tera up courage to blow gently into the
horn, and he hears q noise that is cross
between tho equeal Of a pig caught un-
der o gate and the below of COW that
smells blood and paws the turf and
locke sassy IN the pasture. He blows
gently until he has got 80 he can make
Q straight noise that does not split up
the back and go out of the instrument
both ways, and the folks in the house
begin to hear it. Then he concludes
that he will see how much the instru-
ment will stand, and he draws in his
breath and blows for all that is out, and
rs the discordant "bla-a-t" goes out
upon the sti6ing air Of the hay NOV.
and he feels a sensation at the butt of
the ears that makes him think q 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, and the faithful dog that he
has left out doors begins to howl as
though there was going to be death in
the family.
Then Che beginner begins to realize
that he Is making Rensetior, and he
looks out of crack in the barn towards
the house and he sees his mother stand.
ing on the porch with her apron over her
head looking st tho barn rs though it
was on fire, the hired man, who is pump.
ing water, stops with the pump handle in
the air, and he sees his father in his
shirt sleevs pick up nm ax handle and
s.ars for the barn, splitting On his HANDS
and looking savage. He sees neighbor
~ho is driving By stop his team at she
house and ask If there is anybody sick,
and be realizes that it is impossible to
keep his secret longer, and he comes
down out of the hay NOW with his brass
horn under his arm, sheepish, and con-
ifesses! to his outraged family that he is
learning to play q horn 80 he can join
blasted fool, but his mother and his sister
take his part, and argue that it will be q
great honor to have him wear brigadier-
generals clothes in the band, and the
matter Is compromised by allowing him
to practice on his horn out in the south
lot, and for week or two, at intervals,
mournful sounds are heard from that di.
rectiop, and then they suddenly cease,
and whom the father finally ssks the boy
hov be Is progressing as horniot. 10 teiis
h!s parent that Re hss s-edee. CO h!s Es::
for q fiddle or az aoooIiieon, and explains
b. showing hi5 upper lip. which is swell
ed up to twice its natural size. that l.e Is
not cut out for playing a wind insttu-
ment.
That horn will be traded all over the
neighborhood, and will finally be found
in a ,gsrret, japmed out Of shape, and
the brass band never will have passed
away. Among the greateat failures Of
the world there are. none that are sadder
than the failure Of q boy to learn to play.
q braes horn.--Aiifpaukse San. ~