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Show 1 Aun,iMu, JUilij The Sereuader. The serenader is abroad once more. ToU fellow is a species of epidemic and becomes pmicuiariy contagious and Tirulent durir.g periods of moon- j :hght. He is not content wuh the etil j j he can work abne. and generally ' secures the services of at least one, 'other sleep killer. For three or L-ur weeki prior to his airent he exhausle the gooi nature ol bis neighbors in practi.-iDg up a repertoire of balUds, glees, quartettes and choruses. So he arms himself, and sallies out with has comrades on the first blmy eight, and in the still and mmnnUnt breaks forth into his infernal racket. The fair sleeper who is the victim, awakens from her ret and is compelled to undergo the protracted pro-tracted tortures inflicted by these eight owls, uatil t iey temporarily suspend operations from sheer exbaution, when they pack up and intest eome other quiet quarter, wnere tne same ceremony is rc peated. 0( course they are doing you a favor, and the fir victim awaKeued from aeet aud refredbicg dreams is compelled com-pelled (custom has so ordained it) to crawl out from between the comfortable comfort-able sheets, pop her nightcap-bedecked head out of the window, put all her artifices to work aod breathe out a melodious "Thank yon; come again!" while in her inmost heart she would like to cool tbeir ardor with a cold water bath. This clasi of individuals indi-viduals torget a great many things in their voluntary musical tirades, and anong these things are the following: Night was made for sleep; people who go to bed go there to sleep; il tbey don't want to go to sleep they sit up, and when you see a house darkened you may depend upon it that you cau't do the inhabitants a greater favor than by not disturbing disturb-ing them: if thpV Wnt In hoar mnain they are willing to pay for it, and the idea of forcing it on to a person iB one of the polite species of barbarism of this age; if you can sing you will wait until you are asked, for persona know when they want to hear you; if you can sing unusually well you will be paid to do so, and people will pay to hear you. It therefore appears that the serenade; oannot Bing, and if he can people don't care to hear him. Give us a reel. |