Show olo ole bulls fust first performances ole bull ball has just played a sonata for mo me under all circumstances which would render it the most impressive for far I 1 am hla his guest and though tho the beats without be side his bin hearthstone which is all in a glow I 1 bask anil and as tho the evening brings darkness to the room I 1 hear the violin la in an absorbed way for nothing can divert my tho thoughts tights the ibe lady pianist who accompanies him follows cully each shaa shading I 1 ng of the music muaia then iben around the fire file fireplace place with many a cigar my host lhost tolls tella mo me flab history of his bis early lifo life my uncle was it a publisher und and hail had a quantity of shoot musio buelo quartets a and n d BO 80 ohlie played the violoncello a and n d ho he bought me uy my uret first violin it was a lemon colored violio violin and so BO so 30 bourl I 1 played for tho the cats una anil a bool drove thoin them away from their food I 1 am sura that tho the cats cind got ill over Flori lloa studies they kept clear 0 of f a little summerhouse summer house where I 1 used to play when I 1 was wag eight years old I 1 pla played y ad the first violin in in a quartette letto of ri eyela whon when I 1 was nine years I 1 asod t to PI play or with somo some very good nine anaa tours taura and when my with them did not corno come early in in tho the evening they used to put pt mo ma in ia a case and wake mo me up with a red apple P a in borgon there was a garrison As and there wall wad a band of binl instruments and do you yon know that it a clario notto quacks tod to day at left least st to me just as it did thor ilaf I 1 used to slumber uway away in the cello case because the madours ma tours would play two totts before supper it occasionally that from oat ant ing too much supper the players were tron troubled bled yes troubled ono one evening my undo daiil 1 como let play a of Beet hovens bomo bamo one remarked romar koil I 1 beethoven is so BO but wa must said my uncle the r a ats were wera boned together in ono one voa book k they used to lot me play the cramer and heyde haydn they were easy but beethoven ahl in ia those days he was waa thought hard that thai night the first violin was in trouble after supper wo we call it tipsy just as aa you jou do I 1 what a shame bramel V eaid baia my uncle I 1 oie do you talco take the part aud and play it t 1 I had heard it but hall had never tried it I 1 did not think much about it bat I 1 remember that I 1 was right thou then and there proposed bed and elected as a mom her bar of that musical club at very long intervals after tint that good instrumental iuta would como come to bergen and I 1 would won id listou listen to them I 1 heard tile the oom positions ol of rhode and and clayed played them as w well 0 11 M a a I 1 could father athor was an apothecary aud and LIB his as distant played the hate flute the assistant used to receive musical catalogues cataloguer catal from Copon copenhagen hagen I 1 devoured the tha names nail and tor for the first time baw B w that ot of PA ila canial on LIB his famous fodrea prices one evening father came home homa bringing with lira him two italians I 1 was waa fD fourteen arteen then and their talk fired me ma I 1 wanted to har hear about their great violin violia fat anial 1 and nd they told old mo me all they know evo even n the ment mention ion of 0 his ibrao excited my imagination aud and made me wild I 1 went to my giand grandmother mother 6 dear grandmother I 1 said I 1 cant fantl I 1 adt some of Paga ninis masio ta I 1 dont toll tell on any y ono one said the dear oll old woman but bu t I 1 will try still and luy buy a piece dieco of hla his for you yon it i you yon are it a good child anti and sho she ila did try and I 1 wag wild when she got the ra ganini unini music how it was but oh bow that was waa my refuge M maybe a abo 1 I nm am not so BO sure buro of it tho cat ceita a alid id not go quite so BO wild as some BOMO four years before one ona day a memorable one ona I 1 went to a quartette party th tho 11 now ow leader of 0 our oar philharmonic was there a very fine violinist and ho he played tor for a 6 concerto ot of spoors I 1 know it mad and was delighted with hia bid reading of 0 it wo hail porter to drinkin drink in another room and wo we all drank it but before they had finished I 1 went back to the musio room and common commenced ced trying t the h a I 1 wm was I 1 sup suppose poso carried away with the he masio forgot myself and they heard board me 11 I 1 this is impudence said bind tho the leader I 1 and do yon think boy that you on 0 can a play it I 1 yea I 1 said quite loces aly I 1 dont to this lay day see sea why I 1 should have told a story about it do you now you TOU shall play it said homebody ome body 1 ilear hoar himl hear himl hirut cried my fral uncle and the rest of the them in I 1 did try it and played the allegro all of them applauded save the leader who looked mad you yon think you can play buy anything thing then biked tho tha loader lie took a ci ca price of from a music stand now you try this ho he said in in a rage 1 I will try it iti I 1 said I 1 all right go ahead 11 now hap happened paned that this ei ca price was my favorite fv orito as the tha cats well know I 1 could play it by memory mail and I 1 poli polished shod it off when I 1 did that they all shouted the loader leader before had bad been so BO cross nn I 1 savage I 1 thought lo la would just jast ra riv 0 now but he did not A tay a word ili looked very fin quiet i at anil and composed like lie took tho the other aside and I 1 saw that lie he was it talking to them not long afterward this violinist left bargan I 1 anever novel thought I 1 would soo sea him again it was wag in 1810 I 1 whon whoa I 1 was cling through sweden on a concert tour of a snowy day that I 1 met a man in a sleigh it was quite u te a picture just jast near sunset and the northern lights were shooting in the sky eky a man wrapped up in a bearskin bear sk skin I 1 a a trucking along tho the snow As he drew up abreast of me and an himself he called out to my dri driver lifer to top stop it wai vai this leader and he bald to me well no noi that you aro are a celebrated violinist remember that when I 1 heard you yon play I 1 pro predicted that your career would be a ro mark ablo one oue 1 I 1 you were mistaken mista keu I 1 cried jumping up I 1 I did not roid road that ila ailini at all sight I 1 had bad played it bet before fore it makes no difference differ enca goodby good by lay and lie ho urged on if bis hone and in a minute the loader was rono gone barkef Bar nef phillips in harpere Har pera mc maga zino |