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He was always ready to bring it out, and draw all kinds of music from its strings, as long as any one wanted to listen or to dance. It made no difference whether there was a roomful of listeners, or only a couple, Fiddlin' Jack was just as glad to play.
He knew that there was one appreciative ear in the mansion by the river that no amount of "dago fiddlin'" ever would charm and satisfy like his own voice with the banjo, or his little brown fiddle when it gave out the old foot-warming tunes. Mrs. Chadron was his champion in all company, and his friend in all places. "Well, sakes alive!
"Where Katy will rebel," said Linda to herself, "is when it comes to gathering sufficient seeds and parching them to make these meal and mush dishes. She will call it 'fiddlin' business. She shall be propitiated with a new dress and a beautiful bonnet, and she shall go with me frequently to the fields. The old dear loves to ride.
"Listen, Neighbor!" he cried out, descrying Tyler Sudley, who, indeed, could do naught else "listen! Ye won't hear much better fiddlin' this side o' kingdom come!" And with glad assurance he capered up and down, the bow elongating the sound to a cadence of frenzied glee, as his arms sought to accommodate the nimbler motions of his legs.
They had a condemned, fool habit of taking off their hats when they spoke to a lady. They ate frogs. Having delivered himself of these sentiments in a loud voice, much to the interruption of the music, he marched over to the table on which Fiddlin' Jack was sitting, and grabbed the violin from his hands. "Gimme that dam' fiddle," he cried, "till I see if there's a frog in it."
Perry Thomas, she could do the singin' and the fiddlin' and the elocution, and I'd set by and look on and say, 'Ain't it lovely?" "You bear your disappointments bravely," said I. "Not at all," Perry responded. "I'm used to 'em. Why, I don't know what I'd do if I wasn't disappointed.
"Let him alone," said George Olver, but the group had already vanished through the door, Lovell following mechanically. "That's Lute Cradlebow fiddlin' out thar'," George Olver explained to me. "I don't want 'em to skeer him off, for it ain't every night Lute takes kindly to his fiddle. There's times he won't touch it for days and days.
"Stop dat 'ar fiddlin', ole man," continued the woman, addressing herself to an aged negro, who was seated in an easy chair in the chimney corner; "stop dat 'ar fiddlin', an' git up an' give young massa dat cheer." "I don't wish to give you any trouble," said Frank. "I'm not the least bit tired; but I would like something to eat." "No trouble 't all, chile," said the old woman.
"Nope.... 'receive me not," read Tess. "'If another shall come " Ben burst forth with an eager invitation: "Will ye come to Glenwood for some ice-cream, Tessie? It air gooder'n pie on hot nights; and ye like my fiddlin', don't ye, Tess?" "Nope.... 'In His own name, ye will " "Ye don't like no ice-cream, do ye, Tessie?" put in Ezra Longman.
He paused, and looked at the minister with a strange expression in his small round eyes was it anger, or was it fear, or could it have been admiration? "If you want to waste your time on fiddlin' farmers' meetings a man that knows as little of farmin' as you do why go ahead for all o' me. But don't count me in." He turned, reached for his hat, and then went out of the door into the darkness.
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