Show he ile had met blet Pagan int tole baill I 1 one ot of olo bulls fat fathers herd assistants played the flute and used to receive musical Inus leal catalogues cataloguer catal from copenhagen e it ole dev devoured ourel the lames names and for iho the first time saw that of Paga billi iu in connection connect ion with his hamoui twenty four caprices capriles Ca prices one evening his father brought home two It italians aliabA the first he lie had everdeen ever seen he ile was then fourteen yours age and their talk was ft i revelation to him they told him bira all they knew of ganini the very mention of whose name excited him he ire afterward related the story to a friend thus 1 I went to my sympathizer and said dear grandmother can I 1 have some of Paga nind zi music dont tell any one eaid said the dear old woman but I 1 will try to buy a piece of hia his for you if you arc are a good child and she did try and I 1 was wild when at tit last I 1 had the mus music i c how difficult it was but oh ob liow how beautiful the garden house ingmore ing waT more nore thau ever my iny refuge and perhaps the cata cats who were still my only listeners were not eo so frightened at my attempts as at my earlier to play Floril loc studies when I 1 drove them from their food on a tuesday quartet evening herr lundholm played Bail lots loVa capritti Cap and I 1 was greatly y disappointed at the pedantic phlegmatic manner in in which he rendered the passionate passages A concerto of spodra lay on the leaders stand and while the company were at supper I 1 tried the score carried away with the music I 1 forgot myself and was discovered by lundholm on his return scolded scold eH for or my presumption ahat what impudence perhaps you think you could play this at sight boyl yes 1 think I 1 could and as I 1 thought BO so I 1 dont know why I 1 should not have haye said so do you the rest of the company had now nov joined usand insisted that I 1 should try it I 1 I 1 played the allegro all app applauded added save the leader who looked angry you think you oil can play anything then he asiedu asked and taking a caprice of Paca Paga ninis ninia from the stand he baid try this now it happened that this very caprice was my favorite as the cats well knew I 1 could play it by heart beart and I 1 polished it off when I 1 had finished they all bh shouted and instead of raving as I 1 thought he lie would Lund lundholm holin was ivas more polite and kind than he had ever been before and told me that with practice I 1 might hope to equal himself some day going down the mississippi ole bull met on the steamboat a party of half savage bavage men colonists from the far west while read reading his newspaper lie was accosted b by in one of the men who had been sent as spokesman by his companions with the tile request that the fiddler would take a drink with them of fiering him a whisky flask at the same time 1 I thank you said olo bull politely but I 1 never drink whisky with a curse the fellow asked ii if he was a teetotaler tee no but whisky is like poison to me if you cant drink come and fight then the mans man I 1 s comrades had gathered round him meantime and they all cried if you wont drink you muk must fight you look d strong show us what you are good for A norseman can fight as well as anybody when hia his blood is up fp but I 1 cant fight when my blood is is cold and why should IT I 1 you look like a strong fellow and d it you shall fight seeing no way of escape ole bull quietly said guidi since you insist on testing my strength and there is no reason for fighting will tell you what I 1 will do alst L t any anyone one 0 you take hold bold of me in in any way he lie likes and ill wager that in half a minute he lie shall lie on his back at my feet A big fellow was chosen who stepped forward and grasped the violinist around the waist but was instantly thrown over his head by a sudden the deck ole bull now felt himself in a very uncomfortable position for he saw one of the mans comrades rades draw his bowie knife but was wits relieved when it was used only to open a flask A good deal of its contents poured down his throat soon revived the fainting pan man and his first question how the devil was I 1 ahr thrown own down here wag was answered by a shout of laughter from his compani companions oil s in in which ho he himself Joined he ile sprang to his feet and after babil vainly trying to persuade ole bull to skow show him how bow he had bad thrown him he lie said take this knife home with you you fight d d well you are as quick quick ag as lightning I 1 the artist heard eard of the same fellow later as haying gone to an editor to call him to account for an alverse criticism on his playing ready to flight fori burthe the st Wt fiddler he lie had ever seen anyhow |