Show A disappointed DISAPPOINT RD bandmaster go a did his bit best baw was Issom ful ly earthworms earthworks Earth works had been thrown act the neck ot of land upon which city lount to 1 located says ay the Cont century wry this in trenched line ran raa from IL a point on oa the james to a point on the appomattox river A small mall garrison had been bean detailed tor for its if defense and tho the commanding officer wishing to do something that would afford the gen eral ln la calef special delight arranged to send the band over to the headquarters camp to play for or him while he wa dining the garrison commander was as in blissful ignorance of at the fact that to the general the appreciation ot of music was waa a lacking sense and the musicians si sic ians score a sealed book about the third evening after the band had begun its performances the general while sitting at the mess table remarked ive noticed that that band always begin its noise just about the time I 1 am sitting down to dinner and want to talk I 1 offered to go and make an effort to suppress it and see whether it would obey an order to cease firing and my services were promptly accepted the men were gorgeously uniformed and the band seemed to embrace every sort ot at brass instrument ever invented from a diminutive cornet a pistons to a gigantic double basa bass horn the performer who played the latter instrument was encased within its ample twists and looked like a man standing inside the colls coils of a cutill the broad belted bandmaster A as puffing with all the vigor ot of a quack medicine advertisement ti his eyes were riveted upon the music and it was not an easy task to attract his attention like a sperm whale he had come up to blow and was not going to be put down till he h had e d finished but finally he was made to understand that like the handor hand or gan man ho he was desired to move on with a look ot of disinheritance on his countenance he be at last marched off his b band an d t to a it its a camp on my return the general said 1 I fear that bandmasters band masters feelings have been hurt but I 1 want him to be wasting his time upon a person who has no ear tor for music A staff offic officer er remarked well general you were at least more considerate than commodore who the day he came to take tak command of his bis vessel and was seated at dinner in the cabin heard board musk music on deck and immediately sent for the th executive officer and said to him H hav ave the instruments and men of that hani band thrown overboard at oncel |