'Peared to me that all the gas in the house
was turned on at once, things got so bright, and I hilt up my head
ready to look at any man in the face, and not afear'd of nothin'. It
was a circus, and a brass band, and a big ball, all going on at the
same time. He lit into them keys like a thousand of bricks; he gave
'em no rest, day nor night; he set every livin' joint in me a-goin',
and not bein' able to stand it no longer, I jumpt, sprang on to my
seat, and jest hollered--
"'Go it, my Rube!'
"Every man, woman, and child in the house riz on me, and shouted,
'Put him out! Put him out!'
"'Put your great-grandmother's grizzly gray greenish cat into the
middle of next month,' I says, 'Tech me if you dare! I paid my money,
and you jest come a-nigh me!'
"With that several policemen ran up, and I had to simmer down. But I
would a fit any fool that laid hands on me, for I was bound to hear
Rube out or die.
"He had changed his tune again. He hopt-light ladies, and tip-toed
fine from end to end of the key-bord. He played soft, and low, and
solemn. I heard the church bells over the hills. The candles in
heaven were lit one by one; I saw the stars rise. The great organ of
eternity began to play from the world's end to the world's end; and
the angels went to prayers.
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