The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1860-07-12
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From the Southern Home J ournal.
The. Old widow. venison Hams. q.

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The Old Widows We nison Hama
Now, John, tell us. about that fine
yenison ham that you aud the. parts
that were with You ate, down In Coffee
county, last fall two years ago. .,.,7;s2
Such was the request of one of par,
ty of young men who were seal ed
around campfire upon the bank Of q
creek, not "a hundred miles from, this
place. wbither, tbeyshad gone on a
: :. fishing ffolie.p, p,J.rT ssgi .,f., =. 49,,
u" Boys, ii aain't worth while; You
have all heard Ut, aud had your laugh
over it,seyeral times, = -
:" We'll, ,Johr. we, would all like. TO
hear it again, and you yourself cannot
blame us for larghiug.nnr o. t,sv
81" reckon I'll have to tell it, then :
80 put on your listeners. and be, ,qnie,. ;"
-. klE Of you who. have ever been
down in that part Of the country, where
we used TO 60 deer bunting, viii recol.
lect the old widow Higgins. She was
NJ very fine old; lady. and was very kind
to us boys, whenever we came. The
old lady would send a niger down ey.
cry day or two, either TO. invite us to
come up and take dinner with her, or
TO bring us down a couple of nice chick.
ems or, a quarter Of fresh shoat. We
repaid these acts of kindness of the old
iady's in tobacco and whisky; the frs:
10 alleviate the pains Of |" tooth ache" {"
which the old lady said was sure 10
come on her il che did not always keep
"A little tobacco in her mouth, and the
batter, in cases of Sickness" which 1
think held on as long as the whisky
lasted. We also invariably left the old
lady ;hres or four nice venisom hams,
Of which che was always very proud.
Well, tbc.time before the last that we
were down rhere. game was very scarce,
and welved pretty much off from the
contents Of the old lady's smoke house.
We had been there two weeks, and
were getting ready TO start home; had
no venison, no whisky, no tobacco, nor
no nothing to give the old lady. Now,
do any Of YOU recollect that large, lazy
old. hound j used to have? If you do,
you willknow that ho always managed
10 get all there WIS to- eat. and kept
very'fst, ian uniucky circumstance. Cor
him that time. We'll, one of the boys
proposed to killshirnN and give her the
hams; and as the proposition suited all
of ms, a load of heavy short terminated
old Bucks career. The old lady prais,
ed the hams very much said they
were the finest and ,fattest venisop
hams she had ever seen..'
We went back down there in the
fall, and laughed more than once on The
road, at the trick we played on the old
lady, the season before. It was late in
the evening when we arrived, and we
were very Ired-not feeling at aH like
cooking a supper. We were about do,
ing notwithstanding our fatigue, for
| all Of us. We're very hungry. when an
invitation came from Mrs. Higgins tc
sep with her. You web know that il
was accepted. Oh, what supper fol
hungry .mea, One of the finest yeni.
son hams that you ever laid eyes on.
All ate Of and praised it, and ], having
more curiosity than the rest, asked: -
Mrs. Higgins, where did this nice
veniSon come from Z" ..-.,.
e" La, Ire, it's one Of those you gen
tlemen left me the last time you were
here |" j.. ..r-.ra. ....... ....
Boys, you'll! have to manage the
rest, for l must go and see what that is
niUbling at that large cat hook | set out
yonder." .'- ". s.'. Bio ES.