Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-09-30
HOW SAL AN ME GOT MARRIED.
BY PETER sPoRuM, ESQ.

Well, at last the mite cum, that orful mite
as was to fetch me intoo new state I'VE bein,
an it foun me in a dreadful fix; fust I felt
good, then bad, fust proud then skeered like
five huudred-I went over the mornin afore
the eventful mite to see Sal, and found her
takin it mighty easy rather in hurry fur
mite too cum 1 thought; as fur me l was IN
hurry wun mint, an the next, felt like la
rather little it had bin put off.
Arter supper I washed, then l put on the
cleanest sort Nv shirt that aunt Jane had
fixed up nifty nice an smooth, then dra~eo
on about as nice sett Nv Sunday harness,
as YOU ever seed, an arter marin and aunt
Jane had frimped up and fixed my har an
crevat, wus reddy, so off I puts to sals
dads, an I reckiu dun about as much think
in agoiug oyer thar as was ever dun by emmy
uther Teller in the same time. At last ar
riv, an was marched in too whar Sal was
she sorter blushed, and then sot her head on
one side an looked about as sweet as emmy
-four YOU ever seed. I thought she wus about
as putty creetur as I ever lade my Use on.
Directly SAILS sister ses, the passon'S cum'
an in we marched wbsr thar was about nifty
foxes, an I felt nifty bad an nifty skecred,
but tried my level best to keep stiff upper
lip. Well, we tuck our places, Sal hang'n
on too my arm and me lookin at the tore.
Then the Passon ses, ses he: "Du you take
this CONAN" Che mite a sed young LADY, "as
YOU hold by the hand to be you're lawful
wife, to help her and to keep her, too luv
her and too nuss her tell deth dus yu par"
"Pll do my BEST" ses I, (standin fust on
wun leg an then on tother, fur all the world
like turkey on hot rocky
Then he, looked at Sal, an ses he,
uDu yu take this man." Qike he didn't
no my naim) Gas you hold by the hand, to
be wore lawful husband, to nuss him an too
help him, an too onner an obay him, tell deth
dus yu part?'
sYes, sir" ses Sal. Then, ses he, "l pro-
rounce YOU both man and wife, salute yer
BRIDE" With that, I clinched Sal, an give
her about as hearty a buss as you ever heerd,
then the felers all cum around an kissed Sal
like blazes you could see that it dun EN-
good, frum the way they pitched in-l
thought Sal orter stopped it, but she neve.
er sed word as fur me, kissed right and
left, an cum nifty near kissin nlgger gal
as was fetchin in sum water, when every
boldly begins a gigglin, and l begins to feel
nifty mean. =,
Arter o while the kissin and fool was all
over, an we all pitched intoo the goodies, an
eff ever I saw sweetnins fly, it was then; ct
tell 1 like too popped, and every body else
dun thar best.
About ten o'clock they all left, an sum OF
the boys ses, "Peter, won'tyou 60 home with
US ?" an all soch deviliu Nv me, tell L hardly
noed what to doc or whar to 60. Arter they
all left, thar sot bi myself tell nigger gal
Gums to the door, and sed.
"Mass Peter, Miss SAILS waiting for you. "
"Whar is she 2" ses T.
uShe's in her room" ses she.
"Well, tell her to come down." ses L,
I'm reddy to go any where she wants"
nBut," ses she, "she's in bed"
"Oh yes," ses I, forgot, but ses 1, " its
erly yet amt it?"
-saAd AdI-mas-skanrad, and begin -anis,
germ, tell I picked up my hat, an follered
her, tell she cum to dore, and ses "That's
you're ROOM" My hart jumped up to my
throat, as nocked at the dore, but no body
answered. Knocked again, an then gittin
despirit, opened it, and jeewhillikins, the
cold chills run over me tell I felt like some
body was pullin ceader bush up and down
my back-Thar was Sal fast asleep, Cor pre-
tendiu like, as 1 found out,) an the candle
shining as lite as day.
stood some time lookin nifty foolish, an
then puts my hat on a cheer-next draws
my cote off was nifty hard too git of-then
I shed myjacket, and the balance of my har-
ness, tell I cum to my boots, them was the
wuns. pulled, I tugged and jerked, but
they wouldn't nigh cum off, and happenin to
look up, I thought I seed Sal a reepin at me
outer wun eye, so I blose the lite out, gifts
my boots off, and then - but it aint no
body's bizness, so shant tell any more.
Well I've tride marryin sum time, an must
say that arter feller gifts ust too it, it aint
bad thing, in fact floso6se as follers-
Margin is good thing, tits CRATE thing,
as aunt Jane ses, great institution, Chow
she noes I can't tell, fur she never had a
chance to try it) It's good for every body
Ar you old-marry, it'll make you young
Cor you'll die tryin to pear so,)--Are you
young, it'll make you old-in fact it is Soot'
ed to evry and emmy body. It's ten rale
fence that sosiety has built up to keep foxes
inside the boundsuv good behavior, and tho
I've had my ups and downs in it, an no all
about it, still say-Hooray for marry.
HEROIC DEVOTION TO HIS ART.-Mrs.
Mathews, in her "Anecdotes of Actors, %
gives an amusing instance Of this. In that
scene in the play of the 'Committee,' where
Obediah has to swallow, with feigned reluc'
tance, the contents of black quart bottle
administered by league, Munden was obser-
we'd one night to throw an extra amount OF
,:.o1;t- ,,l u;oor into bio raeisfonoa on