Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1881 — Wasn’t Afeered. [ARTICLE]

Wasn’t Afeered.

Arkansas State Gazette. t The first piaffo taken to that part of Randolph county, Ibis State, surrounding Ravenden Springs, created a profound sensation. Old men would come to the hotel and gravely shake their gray heads at the musical interloper, which in vr.rnish' and audacity, had set itself up against the the fiddle, and whose hoarse tone could drown the banjo’ stwang. Several days ago, while a party of guests were in the parlor of the hotel, ainging and playing, the doos opened and ten men, unsuspendered and tanned, filed into the room and ranged along the wall. A young lady, whose fingers fell in graceful showers on the keys, was rattling off the "Carnival of Venice.” The sun-browned stalwarts were deeply impressed, and for a time nothing was said. But it was not natural for human beings to view a wonder without some attempt at expression. , . "What do you think of her?” asked one of the party of his neighbor. "The peartest thing I ever seed on four legs,” "I’d rather have it than a mule,” said some one else. “1 reckon you would,” rejoined the flrat speaker, "for they tell me that she cost mor’n a farm.” "Just listen at her cluck like a new wagin’.” Here the manager of the hotel entered and requested the guests, who evidently did not have on wedding garments, to retire. They refused, but finally consented, the leader remarking, as his forces withdrew, "I’ll go, but I won’t you to understand that I amjnot afeered, and I don’t want to be made fun of either.”