melodeum

They had borrowed a melodeum — a sick one; and when everything was ready a young woman set down and worked it, and it was pretty skreeky and colicky, and everybody joined in and sung, and Peter was the only one that had a good thing, according to my notion.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2003

I was scared it was vi'lets and 'Gather at the River,' without the melodeum, for him.

Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909

They had borrowed a melodeum -- a sick one; and when everything was ready a young woman set down and worked it, and it was pretty skreeky and colicky, and everybody joined in and sung, and Peter was the only one that had a good thing, according to my notion.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1884

They had borrowed a melodeum -- a sick one; and when everything was ready a young woman set down and worked it, and it was pretty skreeky and colicky, and everybody joined in and sung, and Peter was the only one that had a good thing, according to my notion.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1872

They had borrowed a melodeum -- a sick one; and when everything was ready a young woman set down and worked it, and it was pretty skreeky and colicky, and everybody joined in and sung, and Peter was the only one that had a good thing, according to my notion.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 26 to 30 Mark Twain 1872