The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-12-29
4 DULCET SERENADE.

During this season OF moohht even
lngs and soulful serenades il is consoi-
ing sometimes 10 turn TO Charles DICK
ems and bysreading know that others IN
the bygone years have been put through
their tort,nes. II description counts
for anything one can easily imagine that
the auarlette which serenaded the
"young lady next door last night was
composed Of the Same young men who
poured out their seething souls III
melody and song under the window of
the Misses peeksniii on the eve OF their
departure from Mrs, Todgers' Truly
Dickens has written for all ages-par-
ticularly for the,serenading age. listen
10 these f'iulcet strains breaking IN
upon the silent watches OF the night,
3 Ii was Affecting. very. Nothing more
dismal could have been desired by the
most fastidioils taste. The gentleman
Of 4 vocal turn was head mute, or chief
mourner: Jinkins took the bass aud the
rest took anything they could GET The
Youngest. gentleman blew his melan-
eholy into d finte. He didn't blow much
oui of it, but that vas all the better. Ii
the Two Miss Pecksniifs and Mrs. Tod
gers had persisted by spontaneous com
iiusiion. and the serenade had been ~
honor of their ashes. ii would have been
impossible 10 snrpags the unutterable
despair expressed in that one chorus
Go where glory waits thee II was a
requiem dirge moan, howl.
wall lament; an abstr OF everything
that is sorroBful and hideous in sound.
The hute of the youngest gentleman was
Wild and 6tful. 1t came and went in
gusts, like the wind. For long time
together he seemed to have left on and
When Ill was quite settled by Mrs Tod
gers and the young ladies, that, over
come by his feelings he had retired 10
tears. he Unexpectedly turned Up again
At the very top OF he tune. gaspins for
breath He was tremendous perform
ef There was no knowing where to
have him and exactly when yeu thought
he was doing nothing at all then he was
doing he very thing that ought TO as
tonish you most.
There we're several OF these concerted
pieces, perhaps two or three too many,
though that. as Mrs. Todgers said, was
i fault on the right side. But even then,
even at that solemn moment when the
rhriiiing sounds may be presumed 10
have penetrated into the very depths OF
bis nature If he had any depths,
Iinkins couldn't leave the youngest
gentleman alone. He asked him dis
tinet1y. before he second song began--
as personal favor too. mark the vii
lain in thst-not 10 play, Yes be said
SO; nor 10 play. The breathing OF the
youn geH gentleman was heard through
the keyhole OF the door He didn play.
What vent wasAa flute FOR me passions
swelling up within his breast? A from
bone would nave been world too mild.
The serenade approached its close.
It's browning interest was al hand. The
gentleman of a literary turn had writ
ten a song on the departure OF the ladies.
and adapted il oan old tune. They all
Joined except the youngest gentleman
in company, who. for the reasons afore- 4.
saih. maintained a fearful silence The
song (Which was of a classical naturei,
invoked the oracle Of Apollo, and de-
mandsd to know what would become Of
Todsers when Charity and Mercy
EgPe banshsd from us walls. The
OIL @eis delivered no opinion particular
~ worth remembering. according to the
not infleqnent practices OF oracles from
the earliest ages down TO the present
time. In the absence OF enlightenment
on thai subject, the strain deserted it,
and went on 10 show that the Miss Peck
shifts wrre nearly related to Rule
Britannia. and that If Great Britain
hadn't been an island there could have
been no Miss PeebsnItls And being
nov on nautical tack. II closed with
hi verse:
AL hall 10 tie yesse OF PeeksniH The sire
And favorirg breeges to fan;
While rri'ons flock round 1 and prordly
admire
The afchitect arts ana man.,
AS they presented this beautiful pic
ture to the imagination the gentlemen
gradually Withdrew to give the music
the effect Of distance; and SO It died
away. aud Todsers' was left 10 its re-
ose--Ksnsas City Star
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