Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-01-12
pot in Snob Castle, who holds so many

shall be no such things as old maids and
old bachelors. The Reverend Mr.. Mal-
thus shall be buried annually, instead OF
Guy Fawkes Those who don't marry
shall go into the workhouse. 1t shall
ho o Gin Gov the poorest not to have pret-
ty girl to love him.
The above reflections came to mind af-
ter taking walk with an old comrade,
Jack Spiggot by name, who is just pas
sing into the state of old bachelorhood,
after the manly and blooming youth in
which | remember him. Jack was one
of the handsomest fellows in England
when we entered together in the Highland
Bluffs but l quilted the Cuttykilts early,
and lost sight of him for many years.
All! how changed he is from those
days. He wears waistband now, and
has begun to dye his whiskers. His
checks which were red, are now mottled;
his eyes, once so bright and steadfast,
are the color Of peeled plovcrs eggs.
care you married, Jack 2" said l, re-
membcring how consumedly in love he
was with his cousin Lefty Lovelace, when
the Cuttykilts were quartercd at Strath-
bungo 5ome twenty years ago.
"Married =? No" said he. "Not mon
ey enough, Hard enough to keep my
self, much morca q .,mily, on five hundred
a year Come to Dickenson's-th
some of the best Madeira in London there,
my boy"
So we went and talked over old times.
The bill for dinner and wine consumed,
was prodigious; and the quantity of bran
dy and water that Jack took, showed
what regular boozer he was.
GA guinea, or two guineas. What
the devil do care what spend for my
dinner?" says he.
"And Lefty Lovclace," says l.
Jacks countenanco fell. However, he
burst into loud laugh.
"Lctty Lovelace?" says he. She's
Lefty Loyelace still; but Gad such a
wizened old woman !--She's as thin as a
thread paper, Gou remember whata fig
ure she had) her nose has got red, and
her teeth blue. She's always i'll; always
quarrclling with the rest of the family; al
ways psalm-singing, and always taking
pills. Cad, | had rare escape there
Push round the grog, old boy"
Straightway memory went back to the
days when Lefty was the loveliest of
blooming young creatures; when to hear
her sing was to make the heart Jump into
your throat; when to see her dance, was
better than Montessu or Noblct; (they
were the Ballet Queens of those days;)
when Jack used to wear locket of her
hair, with little gold chain round his
neck, and, exhilarated with toddy, after a
sederunt of the Cuttykilt mess, used to
pull out his token, and kiss it, and howl
about it, to the great amusement of the
bottle-nosod old Major, ard the rest of
the table.
MY father and hers could mt put their
noses together" said Jack "Z'he Gen
eral would mt come down with more than
six thousand. Ny Governor said it
shouldn't be done under eight. Loyelace
told him to go and be hanged, and so we
parted company. They said she was in
a decline. Cannon She's forty, and as
tough and as sour as this bit of lemon
peel. Don't put much into your punch,
my boy. No man can stand punch after
wine"
"-And what are your pursuits, Jack !"
says l.
"Sold out when the Governor died.
Mother lives at Bath. Go down there
once year for week. Shilling whist.
-Four sisters-all unmarried except the
youngest-awful work Scotland in Au-
gust. Italy in winter. Cursed rheuma-
tism. Come to London in March, and
toddle about at the Club, old boy. -And
we won't go home till maw -aw -rning, till
daylight does appear"
"And here's wreck of two lives ="
unused the present photographer, after
taking leave of Jack Spiggot "Pretty,
merry Lefty Lovelace's rudder lost, and
she cast away, and handsome Jack Spig-
got stranded on the shore like drunken
I'rinculo."
What was it that insulted Nature, Ito
use no higher nAme,) and perverted her
kindly intentions towards them +? What
cursed frost was it that nipped the love
that both were bearing, and condemned
the girl to sour sterility, and the lad to
selfish old d-bachelorhood Q IL xuae tba :,