Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-10-17
any harm, they would give him leave to. be


We'll! the youth set off, and took with
HIM pretty shoe with silver buckle on
it, Which lay about the house /; and me put
the shoe in thcfroad along which the man
was going with his OK; aud when he had
done that, he went. into the wood and hid
himself under a bush. SO when the man
came by he saw the shoe at once.
"That's nice shoc," said he. off I
only had the fellow to it, I'd take IL home
with me, and perhaps I'd put my old dame
INTO good humor for once. +" For you must
know that he had an old wife, SO cross and
snappish that it was not long between each
time that she boxed his ears. But then
lie bethopght him that he could do nothing
with the odd shoe unless he had the fellow
to It so he went on his way and let the
shoe lie on the road.
Then the youth took up the shoe and
made all the haste he could to get before
Etle man by a short cut through the wood
and laid it down before him in the road
again When the man came along with
his OK, he got quite angry with himself for
being sostupid as to leave the fellow!to the
shoe lying in the road instead of taking il
with him: SO he tied the OK to the fence.
and said to himself, 'eI may as we'll run
back aud pick Zip the other, and then IN
have a pair of good shoes for my old dame,
!, and 50, perhaps, 1'llg get a kind word from
her once more" tI Y tt,t ss 4gt
So,he set off and hunted up and down for
the shoe, but no shoe did he find; and at
length lie had to 90 back with the one he
had. But, meanwhile, the youth had taken
the OK and gone of with it !; and when the
man came and saw that his OK was gone,
he began to cry and bcwail, for lie was
afraid that Ills dame would kill him outright,
whom she came to know that the OK was
lost But just then it came across his
mind that he would go home and take the
second OK, and drivc it to the town. and
nottlet the old dame know anything about
the matter. SO he did this, and went
home and took the OK without his DANES
Knowing it, and set off with it to the town.
But the robbers knew all about it, aud
they said to the youth, if he could Get t1,is
OK too, without the old mans knowing it.
and without his doing. him. any harm, he
should be as good as any ofthcm. If that
were all, said the youth, he did not think
~" NSiy ildlu
This time he took with him rope, and,
hung himself up under the arm-pits to a
tree right in the mans way So the man
came along with his OK, and when he saw
such sight hanging there he began to feel
a little queer. sS9 r'pFs As
i@.fWell," said he, ."wlatcyer heavy
thoughts ,you had who have hanged yourself
up there it cant be helped; You may hang
for what Iscare! L can't breathe life into
you again = and with that he went on his
way with his OK Down slipped the youth
from the tree, and ran by a footpath, { and
got before the man and hung himself up
right in his way again. & - S@5
/" Bless nre!'' said the man. "were you
really so heavy at heart that you hanged
yourself up tBere--or is it only piece of
.witchcraft that see before MOI Ay. We 2
you may hang for all / care, whether YOU
area ghost or whatever you are" So he
passed on with his OK. -. @6sf 80, y =
7 Now the youth did Just MS he had done
twice before lie, jumped down from the
tree ran through the wood by a footpath,
and hung hiniself up right iitthe man S
way again But when the man saw this
sight fer a third time, ne said to himself:
go We'll this is an slY businessl Tits
likely now that they Should have been SO
heavy'at heart as to hang themselves, all,
tlIesc three /? No 4 cannot think that it
is anything elsc than piece of witchcraft
that I@seet But iiow I'll soon know for
certain il the other two are still hanging
there il must be really 80; but If they are
not then itScanbe nothing but witchetaft
that ] sec. ,}}s1 - 4
so he tied mp his Ok and ran back toysee
It the Others were still really hanging thereg
But while he went and peered up into all
the trees, the youth jumped down and took
his OK and ran oil with It. w hen the.man
como back and found Ills OK gone, he was
u. a ssts plight and, al; any might know
without beng told. he began to cry and be-
tioiitl but at last he came to take 1t easier,
and 3 he thought 5e2as e ss8c3Es 1855
ssSt'sS There no other lielp for it than togo
home and lake the third OK without niy
dSnic's Knowing il, and to.try to drive
good bargain with it1' SO, that may get
good sum of money for5it.2
oliosYent home and set of With the third
oxs ard llis old dame neger knew word
ob9lst thes,aptt ter. 4, But the robbers, they
knew all iphopt IL and they said 10 the
youth that, Il he could steal this OF as he
hpf stoley tbeotllei two. then he should
oyer theiwhole bspIy We'll, the
yonth set OF and ran into the wood aud |
aa the man came by with his OK he set ftp |
3 dfepit1.s beilo1gina, inst like q great OK j
u the wood Rlien The ipan heard tlIat. /
yolt eant think how glad he Was, for Il
seeIaod to dim that lie new the voice sbf
his big bullock, aud nc tlIoaght that how