Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1879 — Sweet Voices. [ARTICLE]

Sweet Voices.

Burlington Hawkeye. “The sweetest voice I ever heard,” said the Bishop, “was a woman’s. It was soft and low but penetrating, musical and measured in its accents, but not precise. We were on a steamer, and she murmured some common place about the scenery. Ido not remember what she said, but I can never forget the exquisitively tender, musical voice.” “The sweetest voice I ever heard,” replied the Professor, “was a man’s. I had been out fishing nearly all day, and got back to the hotel about three o’clock. The man came out on the frtnt stoop, opened his mouth like a sea cavern, and roared ’din-n-u-r! till it soured the milk in the cellar. I have heard other voices since then, but never—” But the Bishop, with a look of intense disgust all over his face, had ‘already walked away out of hearing,, and was lighting a fresh cigar by himself.