San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-01-28

end TO end OF the board He PLAYED
soft and low and solemn. | heard the
church bells over the hills. The candle.
In heaven were lit one by one | saw the
stars rise. The great organ OF eternit,
began to play from the worlds end tC
the worlds end and the angels went tC
prayer. Then the music changed e
water full OF feeling that couldn't be
thought. and began to drop-drip. drop
drip, drop-clear and sweet. like tears
OF JOY fallin' iPto a lake of glory. |.
was as sweet as a sweetheart sweetn'd
with white sugar, mixed with pow
dered silver and seed diamonds. liz was
too sweet. | tell you, the audience
cheered. Rubin. he kinder bowed.
like be wanted to say, Much obleeged.
out Ia rather you wouldn't Interrupt
me-
"He stopped a minute or two to fetch
breath. Then he got mad. He runs
his fingers through his hair. he showed
up his sleeve, he opened up his coat
tails q little further, he drug I'D his
stool. he leaned over, and, sir, he lust
went for that old pianner. He slapt her
face, he boxed her face, he pulled her
nose, he pinChed her ears and he
scratched her cheek till she fairly yelled
lie knock't her down. and he stampt on
her shameful. She beloved like bull,
she bleated like a calf, she shrieKpd lik,
rat. and then he wouldn't let her up.
lie ran quarter-stTetCh down the low
grounds Of the bass, till he got clean in
to the bowels Ofthe earth, and you heard
THUNDER GALLOPTNG AFTER THUNDER
thro' the hollOws and caves of perdItiOn;
and then he fOX-ChSsed his right hand
10 hn
treble into the clouds. whar the notes
was finer than the points of cambria
needles, and you couldn't hear but the
shadders of 'em. And then he wouldn't
let the old pisnner go. He for'ard and
two'd, he crOss't over first gentleman,
he cross't over first lady, he balanced
two pards, he chased right and left,
back 10 your places, he all hands aroun'
ladies to the right, promenade all, in
and out, here and there. back and forth.
up and down, perpetual motion. double
and twisted and turned and tackled and
tangled into forty-'leven thousand double
bow knots.
lit was a mystery. And then he
wouldn't let the old pianner go. he
frtcht up his right wing, he fetcht up
his left wing. he frtcht up his center, he
fetcht up his reserves. He fired by file.
he fired by platoOns, by company. by
regiments, BY br gades. He opened his
cannOn-siege gun down thar, NapOlenns
here, l2-pOunders yonder. big guns, little
guns. middle-siZe guns, round shot
shells. shrapnels, grape, canister, NOR
tars. mines and magazines. every Twin
battery and bomb a-gOin' at the same
time. the house Irembled, the lights
danced, and The walls shuk. the floor
came up, the ceilin' come down, the sky
split, the ground roukt-heaven and
earth, creation. weet potatoes, Moses.
ninepences, glory, tenpenny nails, my
Mary Ann, Hallelujah, samson in Il sim
mon tree, Jerusalem, lump Thompson
in tunbler cart, rOOdle-Oodle- oOdle-
OOdle ruddle-uddle uddle- uddle-raddle-
addIe-addle-addle iddle iddle-id-
dle-reetle-eI e-ettle-etrle-p-r-r-r r-lang {!
per lang per lang! p-r-r-r-r-lang {!
Bang
with that bang he lifted himself
bodily into To" air. and he came down
with his knees, his ten fingers, his ten
toes, his elbows and his nose. striking
every single solitary key on that pianner
at the same time. The thing busted and
went off into seventeen hundred and
futy-seven thousand five hundred and
iorty-two Observation-Disclosures, and
| know'd no mo"