The independent., 1907-03-28

II feel kind iv sorry FIR tn music
teacher" said Mr.. Hennessy.
It's a hard life.'' said Mr.. Dooley.
"But she must get good deal iv salts
faction out iv KNOWN that tn windows
always seems to cheer up whin she
sees me face afther tn lesson.
'orhis is tn way it goes. alanna:
Dunn te dunn te Dunn. She doesn't
hear me, but suddenly she determines
to make tn plunge. Inspired be tn
Gawd iv Music her hand discinds with
incredible swiftness an hits tn wrong
note. Oh, Hinnissy, did music iver
lure we up tn long an reg'la slope iv
chune ye know well an hate worse
on'y to thrip ye just at tn exit? 'Tis
like wan iv thin bad dhreams whin
We fall off tn top iv high buildin'
on'y here tis not in bed We wake up,
but in dentists chair with man
prospectin' f'r th' nerves iv' a tooth
that seems to have the roots in tn
soles iv ye'er feet
II on'y know afther this that tn
music lesson is goin' on tn way a man
that's been shot by tn Indyans knows
he's bein' scalped. At iliven o'clock tn
teacher goes away an me neighbor
plays: Waltz me around again, Willie
with wan finger. p'raps tn thumb. l
take a great interest in that young
lady. / think lot about her future.
hope it will not be long before she
marries rich young miner firm Sitka,
Alaska.
We'll Whin we come to think iv II,
It's sthrange that not bein' contint with
tn noises we can make with our own
natural faces, all mankind does be in
vintin' Instruments out iv wood, iron,
leather, an ivory, to scrape, to hit, to
blow into, to pluck or to nudge with
tn elbow an projooce din'rent kinds
iv noises that th' Germans call music.
TIL Germans tells us what is music an
what amt Wan kind iy noise is music
an another kind isn't. / don't know
where to dhraW tn line. 1t ain't music
to file a saw, but it is music to give
poor imitation iv film a saw on fid-
die. Wan man blows into a flute an
/ say That is disagree'ble neise.'
No. says the German, that's music
Another man blows into his coffee an
I say: There's music No, says tn
German, that's a dsagreeable noise
Take tn pianny. In all this broad
land ye won't hardly find a house that
doesn't harbor pianny. Rich and
poor alike they all have thin. Tn
same notes that dhrives tn millyon-
aire firm home to oppress tn poor,
sinds the poor man willingly to be OPP
pressed. No home is complete with
out this here large mahogany box filled
with scrapiron. A pianny is tn wan
thing that distinguishes tn very poor
firm tn pauper. Ye'd thing man was
crazy if he armed two dollars day an
hos
a slide trombone, a bass fiddle, an yet
amy wan of thin makes betther
sounds an look prettier thin a pianny
A pianny amt half as good lookin' as
a thrunk or foldin' bed. Even Ger
man cuddent build anything homlier.
It's made out iy tn same kind iy wood
as a coffin an it amt anything like
as well formed.
"Ye see Honorya's pianny Whin twas
brought in. All tn little boys an
girls in tn neighmborhood watched
eight Dutchmen totin it in on their
stomachs, which, Hinnissy, is a Ger
man laborin' mans substitchoot FIR
arms Th' monster carrid away the
dure sashes, knocked tn top off tn
stairpost, upset tn stove, an kicked
great holes in TIL plasther. Whin it
was dhropped on tn fure it shook
down tn bust of Dan'l O'Connell an
tn pitchers firm tn wall. Ye wint in
to tn parlor that night an near
Jumped out iv yeer boots whin' We
see a grinnin' monsther, blind, with
it's horrid rows iv black and yellow
teeth exposed to ye, an its great
coarse body restin on huge bow legs.
A pianny in tn twilight looks like
wan iv thin submarine monsthers ye
r-read about in th' pa-apers, relics iv
tn old times whin men dhressed be
gettin out iv bed an kilt each other
with stone hammers instead iv rail-
roads 1t might aisiy have slime firm