Village Squire, 1978-06, Page 32retreated to a sunny spot behind the barn
and tapped away at my saw until my
"sound sense" of the saw became a
natural instinct.
On our next Sunday session, I took the
saw down from the nail in the woodshed
and it was just taken for granted I'd play it
in tune. I got along on the slow pieces like
"Moonlight Bay" and "That Old Gang of
Mine" where the notes had time to sing
out; but I got the tones all running over one
another when it came to fast pieces like
"Tiger Rag", so I got put back to beating
the spoons on the milk pail with the
occasional clash of the cymbals with the pot
lids for all the marches and the fast pieces.
It was a great event when the
Sel-Ka-Ton came to town. We trailed in to
the vacant street lot where they'd put up a
stage with a tent behind it. We listened to
the man dressed up in the headdress and
feathers, who wasn't an Indian, tell
everyone of the dire disasters and
predicaments they'd be in if they didn't
take regular nips of his death -defeating
medicine. We thought the Amateur Show
part would never begin; but it did and we
trooped up on the stage and gave a
soul -tearing rendition of "Moonlight and
Roses" and then for a speedy encore,
whipped into one of Dad's favourite tunes.
"Little Brown Jug." This seemed to get
everybody into good spirits and we got a
real good hand. Some other kids got up and
did tap dancing and singing; and one
dressed -up kid, wearing a real suit, played
a fancy accordian. He was good but we
were too dumbfounded at the expense of it
'to open our mouths to cheer or to clap. So
far it looked like we had received the most
clapping.
The man in the Indian outfit kept asking
for more amateurs to come up and
perform, as some of the people were
turning away to go home. He said there
hadn't been enough contestants to award a
prize. We sure gave him dirty looks.
We edged Charlie up to the stage. Well,
he gave a rendition on those bones that
would have set the old cow who first owned
them smirking with pride. Everybody
started a foot -stomping. Charlie clackety-
clacked the bones at his side, over his
head, behind his back and crossed them
behind and between his knees, without
ever losing a beat.
When he'd finished we set up a
whooping and hollering; but louder than
any noise we made was the great clapping
that arose all around us.
A few more kids got up to sing or recite;
but they were just nothing in comparison to
Charlie.
Charlie won first prize; and no load
Brinks ever carried was heavier than that
50c we carted home. We relished the
spending of it in a thousand different ways
on that walk back out to the farm.
I can't remember what it was spent for;
but I can remember the winning of it and
the fun.
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Saturday, October 21, 1978.
Saltford Valley Hall 1/4 mile N.
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Township
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