Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-02-01
wanted; we were sure to create great

wanted; we were sure to create great sensation.
 Sunday came and we attired our selves in our parade uniforms. liar rington waxed his mustache till It fairly glittered; he was certainly very good looking with his horid complexion and forget-me-not blue eyes. Alter lunch, as soon as the commanding officer had ridden off to look at some ash timber in the direction of the Huachucas, we set off towards the Mendoza mansion, alternately carry ing the violin case. We found the whole family assembled around the chimney fire, for the most part squatted upon rawhides. They re- ceived us most hospitably rendering us the only two available seats; Trinidad looked lovely, being, in honor of the day, freshly washed and combed. Af- ter the first salutations the conversa- ton naturally Jagged, and Mendoza to bring some life into the thing, soon asked his daughter to enliven the scene with song or two. The time | honored instrument was produced, q broken string mended and consider able time spent in tuning the ancient guitar, before she was ready to sing She sang two songs, love-songs of course, for Mexican girls without edu- cation know no others she sang fairly well, although without expression. At the conclusion of her second song she leaned the guitar against the wall and MT. Harrington evidently thought that now was the most propitious moment for our performance. He unlocked the violin case and tenderly lifted from it his beloved instrument, wh ile
 l gave forth the usual preparatory
 short cough intended to clear ones
 throat. In few, a very few words,
 we gave expression to our intention of
 regaiing the present company with a
 Spanish song. My friend having al-
 ready tuned his instrument at home
 began at once 8 tender introductory
 "adazio" from which at a given pre-
 concerted passage he fioated into the
 melody of our song, when I at once
 fell into the tone giving the long stud
 jed words with the greatest possible
 clearness.
 Did we create a sensation2 Did we
 give these good people a surprisei
 We'll, ratherl
 Hardly had we arrived at the end o
 the first line when I observed that the
 young girls features assumed an ex pression of positive alarm while the
 eyes of her grandmother began tC glisten in fiery anger and Mendoza : hair to assume an erect position. MT Harrington who was busy manipulat 7 ing his bow in the most graceful man
 ner and lingering his strings evidentl, failed to notice these alarming signs he kept on and I somehow, nolens volens, kept pace-force of habit, suppose, caused by the unremittinj practice that had gone before, impellet me to persist. Arriving at about tn middle of the second line I saw tn
 girl pull her shawl violently over he , face hiding it completely; the old lad ' approached the fire with the eviden intention of seizing fire brand; Men
 doza reached out for an ax that wa leaning against the chimney while hi , wife held up her hands in great terror uttering an exclamation of horror tha . was beyond my understanding. Whil these movements were going on W had still continued our concert, a U though I had begun to pull Harrins 2 ton violently by his jacket. As W Q were entering upon the third line tn o climax came: there was no longer an = possibility to doubt the hostile inter f tions of our audience which stood no :, before us with weapons clinched an J fury in thelr eyes. With the cry ( NJ "murder" pulled Harrington by mai :, force from his seat and through th aperture intended for door whic g had as yet happily not been place . there