The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1916-06-02

sumthin wuz in their eye, an you
an me wud steel out under the
stars an look up to see if the
angels were listening. alters
did like fiddle music. Wal: wun
Nv them set down to the peanner,
an the other cummenst to tune
up, thot, but he kept it up till |
lowed he wuz playin sumthin
upperatic, an so he wuz. He
kept gettin faster and faster, an
wall;n his eyes eroun an swingin
his body erbout like it wuz nifty
hard work till he seemed to get
ahed Nv the uther Teller, an
stopped fur him to ketch up.
He started off ergin directly, an I
jege he beet the uther Teller
purity bad frum the way he reeled
eroun an worked an SWEET. He
got erhed twice an had to waite
fur the peanner to ketch up. |
dident understand this number
somehow. 1t wuz sum sort Nv
performance, an the foxes SEEM
ed to think the fiddle beet, but
not noin the pints tina wuz tryin
to make, l cud'nt say.
Wal, the gal cum out ergin, an
this time she plum funked. She
wuz so skeered. and got so
menny tremolos mixed up in her
song that you cudnt understand
a wurd she sed. | cudnt keep
frum feelin like sum boldly had
plade off on her by gettin her to
sing the wrong song. There
wuz'nt much tune to it, an it
seemed to me she didn't hav a
fair chants. Erbout all got
out Nv this wuz watchin the
foxes. Square Bill Morris looked
like he had furgot sumthin, Joe
Routon looked like wun Nv the
purtiest girls in the class had
failed on examination, while a
sickly grin cum over Joe Stewards
face that it took weeks to rub
off. Sum NV the grone foxes
looked fretted, but most NV them
jest looked foolish. Tha contin-
ued the performance, but | got
all tangled up, an don't no
whether tina wuz haydn jimnastic
exhibition a contest in contortion.
but altogether, | got the impress
sion that tina cud both play an
sing, an | kinder felt like tina
orter be made to do it. Still we
kuntry foxes kant tell, that ma
be the stile in the sitties, and
sum kuntry foxes want to make
wun ernuther think tina no the
latest. But if it is the stile Nv
singin it is a nifty pore stile. 1t
looks like a pity to spoil a clear,
sweet, God. given voice that cud
soothe child to sleep, awaken
sweet memories of their youthful
days in old people, or arouse in
the youthful every joy of living.
But if it is stile we will hav to
stand for it, just as we had to
stand for the deformity caused
by the hustle on the angelic
| forms of the beeins men admire
an love as tina do nothin else the
good God of heaven ever created.
But shorely foxes with as much
sense as God gave geese, no that
the performance we had that
mite was not music of the very
high order we had when we
were boys, or we would have
seen tears in the eyes of the old
people or latter on the faces of
the young and emotion of some
kind everywhere.
Bill, | don't want you to think
am knockin on the shetalker,
fur think it is a good thing. It
shorely don't class up with the
bootlegger nur the things he
stands fur. and if Emmerson, ur
whoever it wuz sed it, wuz rite
when he sed II am a part of all
have met" shore wud rather
my boy wud soke up a lot NV the
ideas he would get at a shetalker
than what he wud learn on the
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