Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-05-07
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tured party We had on our hest clothes.
and we talked pretty, and were very happy
ALI except two young fellows. ssuslents
Just returned from Germany common
place young men, who seemed restless and
uncomfortable. rs II they found the pro
seedlings slow The truth was We were too
clever for them, Our brilliant hut polished
conversation and our high class taste.
were beyond them. They were out of place
among us. They never ought 10 have been
there at all Everybody agreed upon tha,
later on
Somebody recited French poem after
supper, and we said II was beautiful, and
then lady sang a sentimental ballad In
Spanish, and 1t made one or two OF us
weep-it was so path
And then those two young men got up.
and asked US II we had ever heard Herr
Slossenn Boschen Cwho had just arrived,
and was then down In the supper room,
sing his great German comic song
None OF us had heard IL. that we coul
remember
The young men said II was the funniest
song that had ever been written, and that
II we liked they would get Herr Slossenn
Boschen, whom they knew very well, to
NthA H. httiu IL WAS 80 IllHA That
when Herr Slossenn Boschen had sung II
once before the German emperor he ttbe
German emperorl had to he carried of TO
bed
They said nobody could sing II like Herr
Slossenn Bosehen, he w.s 30 Intensely se
rious all through It that you might fancy
he was recting a tragedy, aud that, Of
course, made IL all the fInnier They said
he never once suggested by his tone or
manner that be was singing ANYTHING
funny, that would spoil it Il was his air
OF seriousness almost of pathos that
made IL no trresistibly amusing
We said we yearned To hear IL, that we
wanted a good laugh, and they went down
stairs and fetched Herr Slossenn Boschen
he appeared to be quite pleased to sing
u. for hr came up at once and sat down TO
the piano without another word
Oh, II will amuse you You will laugh.
whispered the two Young mrn, as they
passed through the room and took up an
nnobtrusive position hehiuti he professors
hack
Herr Slossenn Boschen accompanied
himself The prelude did not suggest a
comic song exactly ID was a weird. soul
fu air II quite made ones flesh Green.
hut we murmured TO one another that il
was the German method aud prepared 10
enjoy IL
don't understand German myself
learned II Mt school, hut forgot every word
of 1t two years after had left, and have
felt much better ever since. Still | did
not want the people there 10 guess my
Ignorance. so hit upon what thought 10
/ be u rather good idea kept my eve ON
the two young students and followed them
When they Uttered. Uttered. when they
roared. ! roared. and also threw in LID.
tie sntgger all by myself now and then. aa
IL had seen bin Of humor that had
/ escaped the others | considered this par
ticnlariy artful on my part
noticed, As the song progressed, that a
good many other people seemed to have
their eye fixed on the two young men a.
well as myself These other people also
Uttered when the young men Uttered, and
roared, when the young men roared and
M the two young men Uttered and roared
and exploded with laughter pretty contin
aonsiy all through the song 1t went exceed
ingly we'll
And yet that German professor did not
seem happy AT first. when We began 10
laugh, the expression OF his face was one
OF intense surprise AZ II laughter were the
very last thing he had expected TO he
greeted with We thought this very funny
we said his earnest manner VIA. haIf the
humor The slightest hint on his mar,
that he knew how funny he was would
kaye completeIy ruined n nil A. yva c,,,,
tinued 10 laugh his snrnrise .yay. ,say "a
an air OF ANNOYANCE and indignation and
he scowled iiercely round upon us alI 1ex'
cept upon the two Young men. who b.inu
| behind him, be could not see, That sepi
/ US into conyulsiona We told each otber
/ II would be the death of ns this thing
i The words alone. we said were enouvh 10
send Us into fits. but added Ia hi. mnck
seriousness-oh. IL was too muchi
| In the last verse, he surpassed himself
| He glowered around upon us with a look os
such concentrated ferocity that. hui for
our being forewarned a. 20 the German
method OF comic singing. we should hav.
| been nervous. and he threw sueh a ,vaIIIne
| note of agony into the weird music that IN
we had not known il WAS funny song va
might have went
He finished amid a perfect ahr,ek ot
laughter We said IL was The funniest
thing we had heard In all our lives ~.
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