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Updated: July 28, 2025
Thar was nobody hyar but ole Miss Lucy, who'd had some kind of a spell an' lost most of her sense, an' didn't know more'n a chile. Mandy Ann got somebody to write me that Miss Dory had a beau, a gran' man, an' I was that pleased that I ast the price of a second-han' pianny, thinkin' mebby she'd want to larn, 'case she sung so nice.
''Tis th' intherstate commerce act now, but th' nex' thing 'll be where I got th' pianny, he says; 'an', f'r fear ye may not stop where ye are, here goes to mount ye. An' he climbed th' big man, an' rolled him. Well, sir will ye believe me, ivry man on th' comity but wan voted f'r him. Casey was still in bed iliction day. "I met Tom Dorsey afther th' comity called.
She says, 'I'll be for taking you home wid me, Pearlie, to play the pianny for me, and then she asks all around what the children's names is, and then she brings out a big box, from under her cape, all tied wid store string, and she planks it on the table and tearin' off the string, she sez, 'Now, Pearlie, it's ladies first, tibby sure.
"Come, now, clear out of here, the hull kit an' b'ilin' of you," she ordered. The men hastily crowded out on the piazza. "Take that packin'-case out of sight, if you mean this pianny to be a surprise to Echo. She'll be trottin' back here in no time," she added. Fresno had lingered to assure Jim: "This yere birthday's goin' to be a success. Would you like another selection?" he eagerly asked.
"Good daah to you, Misther Gordon," she said. "Good daah to you, Miss." "Good day, Mrs. Doyle," said Hugh. "Hard work that, this weather. How's all the family?" "Mag Marg'rut, I mane she's inside. That's her playin' the pianny. She just got it up from Sydney." "And where's Peter?" "Peter's shearin' the sheep. He's in that shed there beyant.
"Tom," cried Dan Anderson, "don't!" But Tom Osby only trod half a pace closer, in that vague, never formulated, never admitted friendship of one man for another in a country which held real men. "Do you know, Dan," said he, "if I could just onct in my life hear that there song right out herself singin', words and all fiddles, like enough; maybe a pianny, too if I could just hear that!
As they passed the corral they called to Jack and Allen to join them in the living-room to prepare for the surprise for Echo. The party quickly reassembled. "Good land!" shouted Allen, "get something to cover the pianny with!" The punchers rushed in confusion about the room in a vain search.
In the parlor, he called off the figures of a quadrille with a "by-yer-leave-sah" air, selecting, as a rule, the highest class of music that had blessed his ears, for he was ear-taught only. He would hold a half-washed dish suspended minutes at a time while listening to one "ob de young missys at de pianny. Dat's de way I'se pick up my most scrumptious pieces.
Wan year fr'm th' day he done th' aldherman he sold th' liquor shop. Thin he built a brick house in th' place iv th' little frame wan he had befure, an' moved in a pianny f'r his daughter. 'Twas about this time he got a dimon as big as ye'er fist, an' begun to dhrive down town behind a fast horse. No wan knowed what he done, but his wife said he was in th' r-rale estate business.
"Try it, honey. Let's hear the sound of the baby pianny," said Hannah, who always took a share in the family joys and sorrows. So Beth tried it, and everyone pronounced it the most remarkable piano ever heard.
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