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Do you want to know what he's done to us boys? Fired us out straight away cos we was 'avin' a bit of a spell and a drink to keep the life in us after we'd close up killed ourselves lifting that there ladyship's blanked hundred-ton weight of pianner on to the dray.... Moongarr Bill's chivalrous instinct flamed to a counter attack.
"'Why not send it down the flume? asts Jess, timid-like. I could see she was jest crazy about gittin' it. "'Oh, the flume is old, an' it's rotten in places, an' such a heavy load might go through. "'Why, it holds up the grub-boat all right, says Jess 'Oh, if I could only have that pianner down here! I can play a little already, an' I'd l'arn a lot. I'd practise eight hours a day.
"A feller that writes music. I don't know anything about it only what they say. Anyhow, he's brought a pianner with him, and they say he bangs away on it like all possessed, and then stops short and scolds. I went past there, one day, when the windows was open, and I heard him thumpin' and tiddlin' away for dear life.
"I wonder what a farmer-woman can want with a harpsichord, dulcimer, pianner, or whatever 'tis they d'call it?" said the maltster. "Liddy saith she've a new one." "Got a pianner?" "Ay. Seems her old uncle's things were not good enough for her. She've bought all but everything new.
"'Wal, I got three-fifty saved up, you know what fer, an' I can raise the rest an' put a new pianner in the place o' that one, says he. "He looks at the wreck, an' fer the first time I sees his eyes is jest a little damp. "They didn't either of 'em seem to take any notice o' me, an' I didn't feel that I counted, nohow. "'An' we cain't git married, says Jud, sorrowful-like, 'fer ever so long.
After a long pause, she began, with quivering lips: "George, I'm sorry so sorry. 'Twas all my fault! But I didn't know " and she choked down a sob "I didn't think. "I want you to tell me how your sisters act and an' what they wear and do. I'll try to act like them. Then I'd be good, shouldn't I? "They play the pianner, don't they?" He was forced to confess that one of them did.
She finally makes up her mind it's a bran'-new one, an' sends fer Jud an' asts him what he knows about it. An' he cain't lie a little bit, so he up an' tells her that her pianner is all inter sawdust an' scrap-iron down on the rocks, an' that this is a new one that he owes a hundred an' fifty dollars on down ter Fresno. "Then she busts out a-laughin', an' says: "'Why, that old tin-pan!
Ben, harassed, pencil in mouth, professed ignorance. "Kirkleigh Sturgis," said the owner of the musical instrument, "Winterbottom Road." "Mister Sturgis," said the auctioneer, while Ben scribbled. "Step right up, young man. Give Ben your money and put your pianner in your pocket. Now folks, the next article "
He sang through a whole opery, made the pianner jest howl, gave some recitations, Casabianker and Betsy and I are Out; imitated all them tragedians; did tricks with cards and fetched rabbits outer hats, besides liftin' the pianner with two men sittin' on it, jest by his teeth.
Day responded, "for folks said she sung runs and trills better'n any woman up to Boston." "Runs an' trills," ejaculated Abby scornfully. "I was talkin' 'bout singin' not runnin'. My niece Ella up to Parsonfield has taken three terms on the pianner an' I've heerd her practise.
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