Connecticut western news., 1911-12-07
MONKEY STORMS SEQUEL
How J. Henry Ground the Organ While
 Sam Eddy Passed the Hat.

1 Sam Eddy Passed the Hat. It appears that the monkey story nar-
 rated in this column two weeks ago, con- cerning the simian that was lured into the
 Roraback law office and got itself disliked
 by Attorney Fred Williams. of New Mill
 ford, by mussing up his auburn ringlets
 in search of silver quarter that ]. Henry
 Roraback tucked away in them for a
 mischievous prank, was not told in full. That, however, was the fault of the writ
 CTS informant, who held back the sequel.
 From another conscientious historian
 these additional facts are forthcoming:
 When the organ grinder started in pur.
 suit ot his runaway monkey, which had
 been liberated by either J. Henry or Sam
 Eddy, he left his hand-organ leaning
 against the fence in front of the office,
 while he instituted a search of the coal
 bin In the cellar of Judge Roraback's resi- dence. It was not long before ]. Henry and Sam discovered the instrument, and took possession of 1t. Each one insisted on playing first, and as they could come to no agreement, and both were about of size, 1t was finally agreed to leave it out to arbitration, with Williams as the arbitrator-Williams being at that time an indifferent person. with more interest in untangling his demoralized ringlets than in caring rap who manipulated the organ.
 However, he adjudIcated the difficulty by Tipping up cent-heads Sam; tails J. Henry. Tails came up, and J. Henry grabbed the crank and proceeded to grind out "Silver Threads Among the Gold" He never had much of an ear for music, and couldn't play by note, for the reason that the owner had left no notes with the machine; so he played by main strength, and without any regard for the pianis- simo, tempo, staccatto or other signs, and the things he did to the poor old tune were calculated to make the angels weep. Sam tried to keep time and tune, singing, but had to give it up, and confined his efforts to passing the hat among the by islanders who soon congregated to enjoy the concert
 After tear ng oI, the "Silver Threads" Henry fingered the plugs and stop-cocks on the hind-end of the organ and started grinding again. This time White | Wings. came out, but before he could | finish the tunt, .hc Organ-mId, having | recovered the monkey from the roof of "Bil" Shields's barn, appeared upon the | scene, and demanded possession of the instrument, which was promptly turned | over to him. As the grinder came into view, Williams, spying the monkey, | pulled his hat down over his head with l both hands and fled back into the office. |
 The organ-man was furiously indignant l at the treatment he had received, and, | bent on getting satisfaction, demanded to know "who- wasa da man wid da curla i hair an darka whisk' dat maka da monk ron away" Williams, at that time, bore a certain degree of resemblance to Donald T. Warner, the present state's attorney, and somebody in the crowd told the Italian it was Mr. Warner, and | that he lived in Salisbury, whereupon he threatened, II hunta heem up," and his organ, with the monkey on it, started afoot, westward ho, to get satisfaction from Warner.
 Possibly there is sequel to this sequel, with Salisbury setting. If any Sails bury reader can tell it, will he please hold up his haud2