Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1858-11-24


Illinois, Illinois, yes that was the name This
aged couple had son in American Illinois.
They produced letters from him and Illinois
proved to be really the Site. They insisted
upon thinking it a small Sstown, and that all
Americans lived in it. They greeted us both
as natives ard residents ofIllinois, and, in con-
sideration of their. ignorance, Iforgsve them
the base insinuation. Wsgere invited to dine.
The pleasure and honor wthld be SO unspeaka-
ble-gentlemen from tho;town in which lived
their Karlchen (dear little Charley that means,
but in the daguerreotypc Hboked like mas
tiff gentlemen who were 100 high in the world
to know their humble Karlehen, but WHO upon
their r.turn would seek out .Karchen and i'll
form him that they had broken bread beneath
tue roof Of his fond parents, snow almost in
heaven" We allowed ourselves to lie seduced
and yielded without morBado to the dinner.
The old women flew out and in few moments
ellsued the most irightful eqmmotion among the
ieathered tribe. took ;itador granted that q
wholesale massacre perfset st. Bartholomew s
day-was being perpetrated among the poultry,
and being already painfully y,hungry, set up my
mouth with profund satifaction for chicken
My somewhat recovered c$mpanion remarked
to me in English, "we ar$to have chicken"
Between this time however, and dinner the cas-
tie was to be explored, tha host attending us.
kept saying to myself gswhat comfortable
dinner We are to have ndiwithout paying for
itm Quite considerationsthis last, in Germa-
ny, where one has to payfor arinking. Hear
then what the dinner was y A dish of adaman-
tine Irish Potatoes and hen with nudes. A
hcn of very recent and sudden demise, but of
the most remarkable antiquity as to years! A
hen with flesh of sole leather and bones that
had been for generations mhrrowless almost
wept, for I was ferociouslH hungry and would
have shed blood fora bit Sf corn bread But
it was all so very kind and heartfelt Of tho old
people! Not to appear Exceedingly pleased
would be all enormity. I looked as if had
just received intelligence ofs being made heir to
the Dorm Mine, and swallowed my leg Of the
hen tgAols, expecting to disof it in the evening
Ever and anon from that day to this, have cx-
claimed with Hamlet
"Oh that this too solt ash would melt"
But in vain. The leg Of tlat hen will go with
me to my grave. One might as well think Of
digesting horse Shoe TIC unfortunate travel
Ter ate wing and declaredto me some hours
after that it was tapping liorce Of long, ,habit)
within him. The nudclspIdels- are strips Of
dough, about an inch Tong and aqdarter of an
inch thick-looked instinct with life. cxpec-
ted every moment to see them 'Urigge. BY
way of desert, the old man told his history and
ended by prpnouncing his wife an angel. !
looked at the old dame with spite and thought
her very economical angel. As we rose from
the table, the host and hostess shook us by. the
hand, as is the custom Of the. .cpantry, and
wished that the meal ss.mIshtb be blessed to U.s."
This meant j pscsume, that tie hen might be
sapctifsd to US as Christening rod!
But what boots it to spin out the tale? The
old hypocrtes made US pay for the hen and fo-
the potatoes and for the water and for the ref
uge. And we were informed afterwards in the
town below that they were rich. am conf
dent they will never get to heaven, slthough
they represented themselves as almost there.
will not say that the thought gives me pleasure.
The Illinois gentleman, in whose cup this last
piece of chicanery was the drop too much, ut.
tered an energetic sentence which proper people
would object to seeing in print, and declared
his faith and confidence in Germans clean gone
forever" !. j. L. B.