Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-10-23
Sf(iisttllaneous.
JEpH HOPKINS, EXPERIENCE.

When went down to New Orleans max
ing my eternal fortin,' who should turn up
one day, of all creation, but Deacon Brittle's
dartar Sal, o critter l used to be kinder sweet
on in Varmont-but good gracious! along
side of them Creoles and French gals; wall
its no use of talking-comparisoDs are ordor-
ous-as Mrs. Mallaprop says in the play
Of course was not over and above delight
ed to see her, did not jump clean out of my
boots, or tear my dickey, Or anything ofthat
sort, but seeing how l had writ the crittcr
some pretty strong letters when l was to
home, and as verdant as year cid donkey,
! put purity good face on in the matter,
and made believe l was dreadful glad to see
her. The old Deacon was pooty we'll to do,
and in case nothing breaks, thinks why,
Sal is pooty nice gal, and all considered, [
might 90 further and fare wuss. Eff / didut t
go further and fare wuss, may be kicked
to death by grasshoppers.
But I'm getting ahead of my story. |
Skinned up again to Sal, and took her out to
ride few-trea!ed her to ice creams ak
cettery' ouce in while But what on earth
put it in my head to take the critter to a
ball--crept it was my i'll luck-I never could
discover.
To make long story short, I took Sal to
romping, tearing two dollar ball. Fixins,
elegant American flags, bokays, the blacklist
kind of niger 6ddlers, chalked floors, lax
'cettery' But five minutes after I had been
in there I didn't see no gass light, no flow
ers, no chalk, no niggers, no nothin' ex-
cept one of the most splendiferous, onna-
countable, fascinoration female critters ever
sot my tn gooseberry eyes onto.
I ketched hold of floor manager, and
made him introduce me to her.-Gee. .whita-
ker! what kurtsy she made and I bow
ed so.low that I nearly fell out of my dickey
on the floor. We danced good reel, and l
was so delighted with the critter that en-
gagged her for the whole evening.
do you waltz, Mr.. Hopkins asked she.
] don't do nothing else, said /, bold as
brass, and with that I ketched hold of her,
like as see the other fellers doing to their
gals, and eff I didn't sling her then there is
no snow on killingly Peak. A few compli-
mentary remarks, such as go it boots, from
the bystanders, encouraged me to do my
pottiest, and the way l sluug them cowhides
was perfectly orful-I say it with the real
izing sense of the moral responsibility of the
assertion. Once in while I ketched sight
of Sal, setting up against the wall in solitary
glory but it only made me cut the harder.
Bim-by, I got dizzy, and the next thing |
got dizzy, and the next thing I knowed
was setting on sofa and that ere angel a
holding salts to my nose, ond bending over
me like hen over spawned chicken.
didn't see no more, nor hear no more after
= that. l waited on her to the door, and
when she telled me at parting.I might call
on her, I went home chuck full of glory and
happiness, and dreamed all night the strang
est kind of dreams about my being in the
Garden Of Eden, and playing high-low-Jack
with Gen. Washington and Mary Queen ol
Scots.
Next day perhaps 1 did not call on my
eharmer-wall, reckon I did, though. ]
burst right out, and called her all the angels
in creation, and told her loved her better
than maple sugar and new cider.
Will you do me favor says she.
Anything in reason or agin reason, said I
Well, says she, looking good enough tt
eat, I want you to buy me cowhide-here'
bit to pay for it.
Darn the expense, says I, I'll make you :
present of it.
OFF went, proud of my commission, ane
bought real stinger-cost me a shillin'-
wonderin' who on airth she wanted to give
licking to. hev it, thought I, some othe
fellow she don't like has been persecutin
her, and now she's soin' to give him th'
sack and lickin' into the bargain.
So, says l, Miss Evelina, (that was he
name) as I handed her the cowhide, shoue
like to know the name of the individual tina
ere cowhide is destined 70 astoDish.
He's about your size, says she, with pc
culiar smile that l didn't somehow exactl.
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