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Updated: July 11, 2025


Well, I know Frances don't keer no mo' 'bout de resurrection o' de dead 'n nothin'. Frances is too tuck up wid dis life fur dat! So I watched her. An' las' night I ketched up wid 'er. "You know dat grea' big silk paper butterfly dat you had on yo' pianner lamp, Miss Bettie? She's got it pyerched up on a wire on top o' dat secondary hat, an' she's a-fixin' it to wear it to church to-day.

Fortunately, Anna's forte lay in playing old music, which she preferred to more modern pieces, and, Joel was soon beating time to the lively strains of "Money Musk." "Wall, I declare," said he, when it was ended, "I don't see but what you Kentucky gals play most as well as they do to hum. I didn't s'pose many on you ever seen a pianner. Come," turning to Carrie, "less see what you can do.

I'm glad it flew the flume. It wasn't wuth twenty dollars. I got a noo grand pianner on the way here that I ordered in Noo York. I'll make this here one a weddin' present to you an' Jess. "And the soop'rintendent he writes out his check an' sends it down to Fresno to pay off the hundred an' fifty, an' when the weddin' it comes off he gives 'em a set o' chiny dishes besides.

"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.

"Perhaps," he replied harshly, the old anger growing bitter in him at the mention of the "pianner" "perhaps it would be better if you gave up the idea of the piano; that costs too much," he added significantly, "far too much. If you'd read good books and try to live in the thought of the time, it would be better.

There was an eagerness in his manner, and a light in his eye, that seemed to indicate good news. "Well, Dodger, what is it?" "I've been waitin' half an hour to see you, Florence," he said. "I've got some work for you." "What is it sewing on a button, or mending a coat?" "No, I mean workin' for money. You can play on the pianner, can't you?" "Yes."

We'd be able to do the trick better if we had real sovereigns, but I forgot to bring any with me. 'I'd lend you some, said Philpot, regretfully, 'but I left me purse on our grand pianner. As by a strange coincidence nobody happened to have any gold with them, it was decided to make shift with the halfpence. 'Now this is the way the trick works

He said she would yawn over the novels, turn up her nose at the piano, and fracture her skull with the pony. As for the housekeeper, she stuck to her text as stoutly in the evening as she had stuck to it in the morning. "Pianner or no pianner, story-book or no story-book, pony or no pony, you mark my words, sir that young woman will run away."

"'Thank you, thank you, thank you! she yells as the boat flies down the flume. "I seed Jud blow a kiss to her, an' I knowed she was happy as a bird. She was a-singin' aroun' the shanty all day, an' at supper she done nothin' but talk, talk, talk about that there pianner. "'Don't be so awful gay, Miss. Hemenway, says I, for I was afeard she might be disapp'inted. 'Yeh ain't got it yet.

Mebbe she kin churn better'n that one I saw in the Movies, but Ah bet a plugged penny that she cain't play a pianner!" Jeb's tone was so emphatic at the last accusation of Sary's short-comings, that John almost rolled from his horse with laughter. Now Jeb had said all that he had to say, so he waited patiently for John to get over his spasm of laughter.

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