Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-10-07
For the Yorkville Enquirer.
THAT SARAH m A d E.
mot BY sUT LovENG0oD.

I guess, but put me down for o liar If ever seed
bit of sarah.nade, till the last time went to
town. was sitting by the fire thinking how pleas,
ant it was knocking about a tavern, if it warn'
for spending so darn much money, and walking
bout town looking at the all-fredest incest kind
of gals with their hoop-a diddles on; when in
come some three or four felers with store close
on, dancing and kickin about, till one Of them
1 believe they called him JOE WHIrE-says
"Boys let's take sarah made" All Of them hol-
Tered out, 'Yes, let's have sarah made" Says /,
"Gen!lemcn, I'm stranger in these diggins, but
if it's as good as lemonade, put me down for
quarter" At that they all burst out into tre-
menus horse laR, and they kept on so long that
begun to feel kinder dauderish, when one Of them
come up to me and patted me on the back saying,
81 like your spunk,. old hoss-you shall 60 free,
being as it's the furst time" But didn't much
like the way they kept staggering oil the time
Howsomever as was rather skittish bout pick
ing up q quarrel so far from home, let on like
didn't see nuthn.
"What instruments shall we take ?" asked one
who they oil called Joe White. t'Cau you play on
any thing stranger ?-perhaps you cultivate the
pastoral read--'sylrisirum moosom' as Furgcl
says?" .
Says l, Joe White, or Bob White, or whatever
mout be your name Mister, I've seed folks what
couldn't read moren half as good as can." At
that they all yelled again-tho' dod.blast me
eff could see anything smart.like in what Joe
White said. "You misunderstood me-" says lie,
81 mean to enquire if You can perform on any
musical instrument-do you play on the fiddle ~
SIS that what you mean?" says I. Wall 1 can't
play on the fiddle, but, gentlemen, eff any of you
can, I'm hell on double-shufle." With that l
laid off my hat and cote-but it turned out that
none of them knew darn thing more about cat
gut than did, altho' thay talked so mutch about
saral.nade,, s'violeens," and "futeeners."
Af;crwhile one of the feers what they called
julius, said to the one what thay called Sag
Night, 'lets get the organ-man to go,-this gen.
tlemnn here" pointing to NE, "can carry the or
gan Instead of paying his quarter" Says /, "ger-
temon, I'm willing to do whatever is fair don't
no w1at the organ is being as never seed one,
but can lift as much With hand spike, 60 as for
half-aammered, or hold out as long in coon hunt,
as any man who don't way moren one hundred and
fifteen pounds-if can't, set down Billy Dowtin
for fool" ''That will do ! that will do!" they
all hollercd out. So away they went after the
orgaa-man. He mad got in bed, but they made
him git up and put on his close to go 'arah'na-
ding as they called it. He begged hard to be let
of-sed his organ cost fifty dollars and mout git
broax, besides it was too heavy to carry. But
thay told him thay had man to carry it, and that
he must either 90 or lend them the music-fxins.
So the organ man got up and they shode me what
they called the organ. 1t war o great big
panied box which looked like it mout hold six
bushels of wheat or more. Says gentlemen, no
tricks on srangers-is there no danger taking hold
of tie macheen ?" "None OF all" says the organ
man. and he begun to turn handel which stuck
out ct one side like the handel Of grndstone and
g.e-c-whitaker if the tarnal nlersheen didn't set
up o tune like forty fddlers all playing at once
After he played one tune he stopt and said he was
ready to go. Says I, "Stranger, don't stop yit-
what do you coll it? I've hearn tell Of piany-
is that one?" eyes," answered the little feller
that thay called julius, 'that is pidny, but the
fashionable name is now organ Do you thinkyou
can carry ?" I didn't much like the looks Of
the darn thing, but howsomever, told him would
try it. 1t warnt as heavy as I spected, 80 1walk-
cd off with it like fash. They took me to
white house with something like pig-pen on top,
and told me to put the organ down on the ground.
They didn't have to tell me twice. So I put down
the music-trap and the organ-man begun to turn
the handel and the music cum pouring out like
the sharp Of thousand strings" as the preacher
says. They all gathered round the mersheen and
kept telling the man it was "butful ""excellent,"
"delishus" &c., and he turned, like Aunt Suky
grinding coffee, till saw by moonlight, the swet
poring off his face, but still thay said it was bu-
tiful" and insisted that he should play OIL. /
noticed that thay kept looking up at the windows
all the time, like thay war afeard the house mout
fall on them, 80 says to the one what they called
Sag Night-"what are you looking for up thnr?"
Says he, don't you see that pen on top Of the
house ?-itis full of doodes, and we are trying to