Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-03-13
LET'S DIE TOGETHER!

or four days with many hearty laugh.
LET'S DIE TOGETHER!
A very amusing scene occurred few days
ago, in neighboring city, not thousand
miles from this, wherein number of the
fraternity were prominent actors, about which
we have laughed off a threatened attack of
winter fever, and through the same means
have lost number of buttons from our jack
ct. Our readers are honestly entitled to
have the particulars, and shall have hear.
ty laugh too. Ha! ha hal
The editor, (Which for short We will call
Quill, having business to engage him much
of the night, had wisely provideda nice broil
to strengthen the inner man, and having
carefully slowed it away for future reference
stepped out for short time to manage some
necessary business. The foreman and ty-
po, (whom we call Quad and Rule,) soon
came in, and chanced to find the steak
What fine chance for joke on Quill; eat
the delicious morsel he has prepared, and
when too late, laugh at him-that's it
bright ideas-ah, we have him on the hip !!
The juicy steak is broiled and eagerly and
hastily devoured, after having given it a
fine brown roast. Quill comes in and goes
to his labor, suspecting nothing wrong
Quad and Rule could not long retain their
mirth at the rich joke they had played; the
secret must out. Thanks to the careful,
provident Quill, the steak was fne!'
Quill, comprehendiug at once the whole
state of affairs, determined richly to repay
the boys for their left.handed joke, so, in-
stantly assuming the gravity of an owl, and
the solicitude of matronly shanghai, with
great earnestncss, grasping Quad by the arm,
exclaimed
My God! Quad, you haven't eaten that
poisoned meat?
Yes responded Quad, whilst his face
assumed an ashy paleness, his limbs were
seized with trembling ard his eyes stood
out an inch from his forehead.
Great God then you are poisoned, and
in few minutes will be dead man. Stry-
chnina was put upon that meat to kill wolves.
Every person in the Office knew that stry-
chime had been procured that day, to silence
some wolves, that with their howlings: made
midnight hidcous. Each, therefore, now
rushed forward to the scene of conversation,
everything in the shape of business was sus-
pended, and each waited in breathless agony
the termination of this tragical scene.
Poisoned .-strychnine death -
groaned the thoroughly afrightcd Quad
oh my God, save me, and he rolled his
eye besecchingly an instant for the first time
heavcnward, then hastily placing both hands
upon his stomarch, he hissed-'Ah, 20 gods!
| feel the death gripe-the poison has hold
of my vitals. Oh-h-h-h! Save me-what
shall I take?'
Quill suggested grease, oil, lard, soup,
anything as an ancdote. Devil jumped
down to the press, and in an instant return
ed with large bottle filed with oil-thc ar
ticlc used on the press. Quad grasped it
spasmodically, disepgaged the cork and plac-
ed it on his mouth. The limpid stream ra-
pidly flowed towards its level, and the bottle
would have been emptied had it not been
arrested by the hand of Rule, whose quick
eye measured the remains of the fast disap-
pearing, life-saving antidote. The remand
er was hastily dispatched, together with all
the grease that could be found in the Office.
CONSERVATION and fright now reigned in
that once happy ofice-prayers were breath
ed for the sinful souls Of the two unfortunates.
The crisis was hastily approaching, when
another entered and quickly learned the aw-
full state of affairs, viz: that the young men
had taken strycbnine.
TO the Doctor ! for Gods sake--haste =
screamed the new conner.
This was something new and unthought
of in the hustle before. Quad sprang to the
door, and was about vanishing, when Rule
moaned out
Stop a moment, Quad-wait, will CO.
If we die, less die togeth like men!
Ihe ofilce OF DR.. NJ. was reached IN mo-
ment-the victims examined; said there was
little danger, the poison, if taken, would
have done its work before. Quad ". not At
isfed; he saw only death before him; could gel
no oil; Doctor was out. Pale, buggard, and
trembling in every limb, he rushed out, fol.
lowed in the distance by all the boys from
the ofice-breaking through two doors of a
neighboring establishment, he shouted to the
proprietor iu sepulchral tones
oh, grease, lard-quick- -strychnine Oh
I am poisoned! Haste or die! Oh-h-h
ah-h.h! The pains of death are severe
O-o-o-o-o!
The frightened keeper could only furnish
the little lamb grease on hand, and hastily
put on the fire pan Of pork. The wretch
eS victim nlr1ost ~ fro aoonies of death