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The Arkansas Traveller's songster: containing the celebrated story of the Arkansas Traveller, with the music for violin or piano, and also extensive and choice collections of new and popular comic and sentimental songs, 1864
11 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026, twice; the two readings disagreed in places. Printed page 10. See the scan on archive.org.
1THE ARKANSAS TRAVELLER'S SONG-BOOK.
3THE ARKANSAS TRAVELLER.
4By Mose Case.
5(Published, in sheet-music form, by Blodgett & Bradford, Music Publishers, Buffalo.) one of two readings
6(Published, in sheet-music form, by BLODGETT & BRADFORD, Music Publishers, Buffalo.) one of two readings
8This piece is intended to represent an Eastern man's experience among the inhabitants of Arkansas, showing their hospitality and the mode of obtaining it.
10Several years since, he was travelling the state to Little Rock, the capital. In those days, railroads had not been heard of, and the stage-lines were very limited; so, under the circumstances, he was obliged to travel the whole distance on foot. One evening, about dusk, he came across a small log house, standing fifteen or twenty yards from the road, and enclosed by a low rail fence of the most primitive description. In the doorway sat a man, playing a violin—the tune was the then most popular air in that region—namely, "The Arkansas Traveller." He kept repeating the first part of the tune over and over again, as he could not play the second part. At the time the traveller reached the house it was raining very hard, and he was anxious to obtain shelter from the storm. The house looked like anything but a shelter, as it was covered with clapboards, and the rain was leaking into every part of it. The old man's laughter Sarah appeared to be getting supper, while a
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