Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1837-05-24
1o>ny SAUSAGE MANUPACT0RY

LONDN SAUSAGE NANCFACToRY
They had walked some distance, Mr..
PicliwcIrottiEg on before plunged in pro-
found maitation, and Sam following behind,
with 4 ccntcnance expressive Of the most
envableeasy defiance of everything and
cverbod, when the latter who was, always
especial anxious to impar to his master
any cxusive information he possessed,
euickepI his pace until he was close TO
Mr.. piewick's heels, and pointing up at a
house, they were passing. said. =.
Werf nice porkshop thal'erc, sir.
"Ycs, isccms so," said Mr.. Pickwics.-
.Cclcb,tcd sassage lactory,' said Sani.-
Is it, aid Mr.. Pickwick, is !' reiterated
Sam. wh some Indignation; 4 should rather
think twas. Why,sir, bless your innocent
cycbro.s, that's we're the mysterious d'sap-
pearanc of a respectable tradesman took
place fur years ago. '.lou don'tmean to
saw he vas burked, Sam?' said Mr.. Pick
wick, boxing hastily round. NO, l don't
intend sir replied Mr.. Weller, 4 wish did;
!ir wo SC than that. lie was the master
tInt &C shop, sir, and the inventor O the
padn,.ncvcr. .lcaviu.otf sausage steam IN
sire, us nd swallow up pawn stone 1t you
putt, too near, and grind it into sassagcs as
clsy is if it was tender baby. Very
proud O. that machine he was, as it was nat
raj le should be: and he'd stand down in
the,ellar lookin at it ven it was in full
pla', till he got quite melancholy with JOY
A very happy man he'd ha' been, SIT, IN
tho possession ofthat ere ingInc, and two
mGe lovely infants besides. If 1t hadn't
ben for his wife, who was a most owdacl-
on wixin. She was always folIcrin him
abut and dnnin in his ears, ill at last he
culdn't stand it no longer. I'll tell you
wat tits, my DEAR he says one day, 1fyou
prsewere in this here sort Of amusement,
In blessed if | don't go away 10 'Merca;
and that's all about it, You're idle
wlIin,' says she. 'and wish the 'Alerlcans
i0 o their bargains Arler vich she
keeps on abusin for half an hour, and then
uns into the little parlor behind the shop,
cts to IL screamin, says he'll be the death
IN her, and falls into a fit which is all
;crcamin and k;ckin. Well, next niornn
:hc husband was mIssn. He hadn't taken
nothin from the t--hadn't even put on his
grca; coat so it was quite clear he hadn't
gone to 'Meriker. Didn't come back next
day, didn't come back next week; the mis-.
sis had bills printed, sayin that if he'd come
back, he should be forgiven every thin,
(which was liberal, scein that he hadn't done
nothin at all all the canals was dragged,
and for TWO months afterwards, vcncver Il
body turned up, il vas carried as reg'lar
thing, straight OFT TO the sassage shop
Hows'ever, none on 'em answered, so they
gave out he'd run away, and she kept on
the business. One Saturday night q little
comes into the shop in
great passion, and says, Are you the missis
Of this here shopp yes, l ann says she.
We'll ma'am,' says he, then I've just looked
in 10 say, that me and my family amt goin
10 he chobed for nothin; and more than that
ma'an,.' he says. you'll allow me 10 observe,
hat as YOU don't use the primest parts o.
the meats in the manuiactor o sassages
hink you'd find beef come nearly as cheap
as buttons Buttons, sr!' says she, 'but-
tons,' ma'am,' says the little old gentleman,
unfolding bit of paper, and shew'n twenty
or thirty halves O. buttons Nice scasoDIn for
sassages istrousers' buttons, ,ma'am''Thcy're
my husbands buttons says the widder,
b ginn1n to faint. 'Wha'; screams the little
old gen'lm'n, turnin very pale. q sec 1t
ALL SAYS the wilder; in fit Of temporary
insanity he rashly converted himself into
Bassages!' And so he had, SIR said Mr..
Weller, looking steadfastly into Mr.. Pick
wick horror stricken countenancc, or else
he'd been draw'd into the lngine, but how.
ever thai might ha been, the little old gen.
Im'n, who had been remarkably partial to
E;assages all his life, rushed out O. the shop
IN wild state, and was never heard on ar.
crwards."