The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1852-04-21
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From Arthurs Home Gazette.
HAVN'T TIME
D0N'TsBE-IN- RRY.
CH APTER VII.
ABoUT MIR. DoN'T-DE-IN-A-HuRRY

N'N' OS'
As said, in previous chapter, nv
neighbor, Mr.. Don't-be-in-a-hurry, also
q. took little pleasure jaunt to himself last
summer. Thisjaunt had been for some
months in cqDtemplation and much en-
1Joyment was expected therefrom. lie and
Mr.. Aavn't-timc were intimately acauain-
= Ted, and often spent social evening to-
gether. They frequently spoke of their
anticipatce summer tour and long before
the time Of starting came, had agreed to
leave home on the same day, and to visit
Niagara together.
- Mr.. Don't-be-in-a-hury thought that
the second week in August would be
quite early enough to start, but his
tneighbor,S always inclined to take old
Time, eas they say, by the forelock,
wished 70 leave home at least by the mid
.d die of July.
- "Too soon 10y several weeks, nv friend ~
? objected Mr.. :. Don't-be-in-a-hurry. II
wouldn't think of going before the second
week in august"
apsasJhe second week in August :" cXclaim-
~ed Mr.. Havn't-time. "Oh dear! | must
be home ere that. And, besides, tie ear
lier we go the better. Later in the season
everybody is crowding the fashionable pla-
Ses OF resort destroying, to quiet bodies
like you and !, all comfort. Let lis be
wise, and take our pleasures when most is
to be obtained" ..
But Mr.. Don't be -in-a-hurrv could
not be persuaded to start so early as the
middle of July. He had quite as many
a,sr,,n...ts against as his friend had in
sasor' of that ne. So, after many con-
tetences on the subject, L. was hhalIy agreed
betEeen the parties, that they Nhou'd start
together on the first Of August.
ADid they start togetherl" asks young
reader, .'You said nothing of Mr.. don't
8 be-in-s-hurry as the companion OF Mr..
Havn't t.timGp ... ... s...
~ Wait q littlQ while, and you shall see.
sig Well, s,insIk@ progressed to the middle
; Of July, and still II was understood that
the two gentlmen should leave home, in
company, for the contemplated tour, on
the FIRST Of August.
The last week tx July was at length at
hand. In six or seven days moro, the
looked-for period would arrive.
sNext Monday we are to start" said
Mr.. Hayn't-time, on meeting Mr.. Dont-be-
in-s-hvfry . week previous to the first day
OF August ...... ...
Next Monday. You are little ahead
OF time, are you not 7" was the cool, al
most Indifferent answer Of the impassiye
Mr.. Don't-be-in-a-hurry.
'"Ahead of time Why, don't you
4tnow' that next Monday Is the first day OF
AugustP r. Mr.. Havn'ttime spoke in a
quick, distufbed manner.
s The first day, stir How marked
vas contrast between the two mems state
sOf feeling. Mr.. Don't-be-in-a-hurry was
'as placid q the surface of mountoin
g Certainly it is the 6rst day-the day
on which it has long been understood that
we were to leave for our trip to Niagara
did not uhdefstand,n REPLIED Mr.
= Don'tbe~in-a-hurry, sthat we aNere n
q leave on the very first day.
sas Pray what then did you hndefstandf'
sslcea Mr.. Hayn'tti ne good deal irrita.
ted ~Doesn't the first mean the first r.
as.s @, Cctsainly. But when we speak o.
Tie srt 81 a coming month, we generally
mean the early portion Of it /; do We not r
Isdon't," was the curt reply.
"Well, ] do, my good friend Havn't
time, smilingiy answered the nndistubet
y N.Y. Don'tbe-in-a-hurry. ~1he first o
tAugust, IN the present case, understood
- 10 mean the first few days after going ou
of fSuiy. To start on the rery first day