Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1881 — Mme. Gerster Singing on Board Ship. [ARTICLE]

Mme. Gerster Singing on Board Ship.

The sea was perfectly still, the moon shone brightly and the night was a perfect one for the purpose, and the Bailors gathered where they could hear the singer’s voice, and to thorn particularly she sang, making a special effort to give pleasure to her unusual audience. It is said by one of the passengers that after the silvery notes of the singing voice had died over the quiet sea there was a murmur of delight and grunts of satisfaction from the sailors, which at last found expression in the person of a slabsided old salt, who rolled his quid to the other cheek, hitched up his trousers, and exclaimed : “ Now, I tell yer, and hang me, if that thar don’t sound as tho’ it war the voice o’ nature, I’ve heard tell of, and I owns up to feelin’ moist in my headlights. ”