The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1847-12-01
TIE WOOD ENGRAVER
Eia1 Odd Fellows Claim.
BY j. II. lSGRAlIAM.

am on Il visiting committee, and have
to make call or sick brother" answered
MIR. Preston, as he put on his gloves.
The lady pouted.
tlc took up his hat, and approached her
with playful smile.
All, Mary, fear you will never over
come your hoStility-t is no longer prcju-
dc, but hostility to the Lodge
| And do not wish to. Here vuu were
away from me on Tuesday night until nine
o'clock, and now on Thursday you arc off
again p
But have duties I owe TO others as
we'll as to yourself, Mary! give you we
evenings and often six in every week, and
you have great portion Of my time during
the day. We must sacralicc something for
others. AS members Of tho great conmu-
nifty, we have duties external to those due
TO our immediate Eamilies.n
But you had no such duties until YOU
became an Odd Fellow"
81 did not till became an Odd Fellow
sec SO plainly the duty owed to my fellow
creatures as | now do. Becoming an Odd
Fellow has enlarged my views Of bcncvo-
lence, and oponcd to me field for its exer-
cisc
GA young married man by the name of
Pcllon, who joined the Lodge year ago,
learn by note | received from the Noble
Grand while was at tea, is discovered to
be quite i'll. He has been absent from the
Lodge for several meetings, but as no one
was ported, was not aware Of it till Just
nc AS he lives in the next street must
go and see him"
Who is hc?"
"An Odd Fellow"
IL mean his. .tradc!'
"That you mean how respectable is he
We Odd Fellows, Mary, know no distnc-
ton of trades within the Lodge. We are
all brothers and friends. He is mcchan-
lc-a wood-engravcr, [ belicvc--I have
several times spoken with him and like
him. lie is quite unassuming, and quite
interesting in conversation. [ have heard
him speak in the Lodge with great fiucncy
and eloquence. FIis health has been deli
cate of late.
You seem TO feel very much for such a
SORT OF person, it seems TO me! Well, go!
LII try 10 pass the evening as we'll as | can:
us 90 those when you are at the Lodge i"
And the lady poutcd and looked ill-plcas-
ed.
Why not let me call and ask live
!y Amy Otis to drop in aud pass the even
ing?"
& | had rather not have hcr,''
"Why not go to your fathcr's2 will
sec you there and call for you when | come
back"
"No"
"Thcn pass the time in rcrding Fredrica
Bremcr's last"
el,,n
This was said so very positively and an
cry that her husband said no more except
good evening""
She waited till she heard him shut the
street door, and then she sprang up and be-
gan 10 pace the room The cricket was in
her way, and she kicked it out of her way.
The piano was an obstacle to the free excr-
else fhcr limbs, and she tilted it over. For
full five minutes she continued in this ami
able mood, during which, annuais strewed
the floor, chairs were laid upon their bacllr,
and the poker and shovel took turn or two
Of cachucha about the room. At length
she threw herself upon a sofa and played
the divils tattoo with her little left foot upon
the carpet until she was tired. She then
pulled a feather fan to pieces and cast the
fragments around her; took up book and
glanced into it and flung it to the other side
of the room, great y to the peril ola splend-
id French mirror, and to the utter demoli-
tion ola cologne bottle that unluclily lay in
its progress.
The fragrance of the spilled calogne, or
perhaps exhaustion, calmed her, and after
few gentle epithets at the Odd Fellows in
general and her husband in particular, she
rung for an ice cream to be brought her
from the next confectoner's; very excel
lent cooler in such cases.
Mrs. Preston was not simpleton, nor a
vixen nor fool. She had good sense, a
cultivated mind, and knew great deal bet
er than to act as she did. But she was jeaI-
tous; jealous of the Lodge, not of woman {;
for she had too just appreciations of her own
beauty, if not of Chales's constancy, to be
jealous of any lady. No The lodge was
her rival. 1t robbed her of a part of his
| societx all of which che felt II was her ri inht