Show seeing the opery the cincinnati inquirer tells a story about a couple of countrymen who visited that catry citry city and asking for pikes were unai unwittingly tt ing I 1 I 1 whick shown mr nir pikes private residence which they mistook for the opera house percel perceiving vint i the front door open they entered quietly as is natural to uncultivated natives surrounded by objects to which they were unaccustomed and awed by the splendor of the f furniture they s stepped PT p ed into the drawing room on tip tipi j to toe e wi with t eyes astare and mouth wide agape 1 i in wonderment won de rm ent and took seats upon a broca tel tei telle telie le sociable placed against the wall A young lady seated at the further end of the apartment at a piano on which she ehe was playing did not nov hear licar them enter and continued her performance at the same time accompanying it with her voice As her clear soprano rose above the inspru I 1 ment in delicious sweetness the bucolic audi tors were lost in admiration and had bad not the least doubt that it was the opera especially as they had heard to use their own expression there was in it c by golly that eres finey hine fine aint it bill said one in a whisper putting his elbow into his companions side punny party good opery that cm cregan ga I 1 sings like a conary dont bhe ehe bill hill the party appealed to nodded assent to this his opinion and both relapsed into profound silence until the song was completed when unable to restrain their enthusiasm they began applauding violent violently lyp stamping their feet upon the tapestry carpet and crying g in lo 10 loud lond 1 id v voices oi go it old 0 gal well let on you i youre the best opery A in these these ere the young lady alarmed at the noise and outcry fled up stairs and said there were some noisy drunken rowdies in the drawing room which induced the calling of the coachman and butler to eject the rura lists from the premises when ordered out of th the house ehouse the countrymen offered mone money Vs sayi saying baying ng that they were willin gwillin to pay their dollar to see the show and no one had a right to put them out and the they would not nov no go anyhow they were nevertheless erz erl erkless erth less eless ejected from the them house to their intense n indignation and alader anger 0 |