Lonely Dove
Some of the deacons had built a ramp out at the back of the saloon, and a board track across to the church, so that all they had to do was push the piano right across to
the church. Even so, the arrangement was a threat to the sobriety of the deacons, some of whom considered it their duty
to spend their evenings in the saloon, safeguarding the piano.
Once they safeguarded it so well on Saturday night that they ran it off its rail on Sunday morning and broke two legs off it.
Since there weren’t enough sober men in church that morning to carry it inside, Mrs. Pink Higgins, who played it, had to
sit out in the street and bang away at the hymns, while the rest of the congregation, ten ladies and