Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-07-24
THE NAN WHO WAS
FOAU OF MUSIC.

the boy with the yoluminous woole
comforter, who had approached th
] stove twanglng on jewsharp, 'asl
kufe ever there TO let you have
piece Of good stout string
What fer? IN luired the boy
"To tie that blame thing to you
leg, answered Hancock "Fasttn
good an strong an then take the Ie'
out doors an exercise IT,
Wash don't like music, observed
Sol Baker TO Marvin Parsons, with
nrIn That's what makes him plaI
/ the fiddle ~ much"
He's NJ fer treason spoils an
strarAgems said Squire BurHholdor IN
his iyceum basso profundo There
what the immortal bard Of Avon says.
The man that hath no music In his
soul"
I'm fond " music" said Hancock,
tiltIng his chair back against the sal,
barrel, but | aint plum crazy over II,
like Bert Walkiss ulster be-
What was that about Bert Walklss.
Wash? ?' asked Marvin Parsons.
Bert was crazy about music, re
piled Hancock. He didn't play him.
self-neysT could make out TO learn
Anythin didn't know enough TO
pound a tin wash boiler with a black
smiths rasp at a shiyaree but he had
a right smart o admiration fer anyone
that could He'd come anund 10 my
house while | was practicin some
times an set an listes b me by the
hour with tears standin In his eyes
He got licked more times when he Wis
young one fer iol!erin the band
around than he had hngeys an toes
ten times over He'd go TO meetin'
even, to hear the music. he couldn
play. as said, but he wus sllus tryin
TO He'd buy Il jevsnarp. Ike Glenn
here an work al II til he got his own
teeth all loose an everybody else's on
Aidge Then he'd save up fer a mouth
organ an rub blisters ou his lips
When he seen he couldn't do nothin
with the mouth organ he gave 1t ava,
an bought him a guitar an instruc
tion book
That wasn't no good, either, an ne
traded that to Pete simpson, the bar
DER Pete got II down fine in about d
month lie could play tine SpanisL
tandAngo' an 'Napo,eon's March and
pick out the chords FER most any kind
o song Then Bert 'ud come 10 town
an forget all about his tradin' settin
AroLad in the barber shop listenin' 10
Pete II uster make old man Walkiss
hoppln mad He allus lowed Bert uJ
never l'c wuth the powder TO blow him
To blazes as farmer
He wus mistaken about that
though Bert wus a good boy TO work
when there wasn't no music around an
ne knew more about raisin' corn an
hogs than the old man did himself
Whel the old man flu ly died an Bert
got the place he raised bigger crops
than anybody In the township an hls
stock took prizes ag'in at the fairs
Bert got tol'able well fXed an the girls
begun maxim a set at him Stll, he
don't pay no p'tickler attention to EN-
"Fin1y one night he went TO the
lyceum at Willow Bend schoolhouse,
an here was a gal there from Fairfax
over In Atchison county, that was Wis
itin Lew Meahns folks She'd took
lessons on the pianner an Meakin
hauled over his pianner to the school
house so's't she could play. was
there that night an I'll never fergit
how Bert whIstled and stomped when
she pounded out 'silvery Waves on
that OF square OF Lewis | saw she was
a gal. but she wasn't no spring chick |
en-, Pn she was built a good deal like !
a white oak fence rail-about as long |
an with corners most any way you
turned her Her face wouldn't have
been considered so blame homely II
there had been any homelier ones
around but there wasn't.
Bat Bert didn't care nothin about
thlt He Jest nachally tried to stomp
a hole In the door. unil she come agn
an give EN- The Maidens Prayer
Then he raised the room an conducted
himself disorderly until he got The
Beautiful Blue Danube
"NcNt mornin' he went over to Lew
Meakin's after seed potatoes. He wore
h's best clothes an the gal played
'Slytry Waves for him
"A night or two after that Bert says
to me, You can talk about your horns
an your hddles an guitars, but to my
notion the pianner beats 'em all
Two months after that he married
the sal an you could drive past the
house most any time o day or night
after that an you could hear Silvery
Waves or The Mallen's Prayer. or
Blue Danube Judas, That woman
was homely"
Il calculate Bert was satisfied. said
the storekeeper
Il reckon he wus. said hancocS
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