The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1860-11-29
an Amlrsiing STORY.
ADVENTURES OF A BASHFUL MAN.

bntinto this world on Friday. We deem
this fact worth chronicling, since it was al
event Of some Importance to our hero,ant
because we hope to show unbelievers tha
the old saw. about the unluciliness OF FIJI
davis correct. From his verybirth, liar
ry was stignatized. lie was an exceed
ihgly pretty babe, fair complexioned, blue
eyed, brown haired, plump and rosy but
he was endowed with an heritage f'l
worse. than hunch back, club foot, OF
q sauint eye-he ras daslJM ? When the
ladies came to look at him in his cradle
and, to pronounce him Slittle beauty
the eexpress image of his pa" the little
"swcet'' would invariably put his fat fist
in his mouth, and hide hisinteresting face
in the,pillow He could not be won by
sugar plumbs.or peanuts; he would hide
behind his mothers robes when asked for
a kiss. and if a stranger attempted to take
him i'm up, said stranger usually got the
worst Of in the way Of kicks and scratch
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so it came to pass at,although people
called Harrya charming little thing to
his mother, they expressed themselves
aside in very different terms, and maligg-
ned poor Harry's infantile character to an
unhead of extent. 70 have listened to the
private conversation ofhalfdozen old gos-
sips on,this point, you would have had no
doubt in n yourown mind but Harry Single
ton was the most accurate edition of orig
inal sin extant. -.s,o,.
Mrs. Singleton fair-faced, handsome
womanAregretted very greatly this un-
fortunate trait in the temperament OF her
beloved irst-born, and used every endeav-
or to break him of it, but without success,
and Harry grew up to youth the most
beautiful and retiring Of all human be-
ings. He was, also, singularly unlucky.
No child ever received so many bumps
and thumps since the fall of Adam; his
forehead was populous archipelago OF
blue, yellow and black bruises, in various
stages of coloring. de never touched a
knife without cutting ais fingers; he could
scarcely eat his meals without sticking
his fork into his hands, and at length his
father would allow him only a spoon with
which to take his food-believing that he
could do himself no damage with that
pacific instrument, unless he swallowed
it..
When there was company at the house,
Harry generally retired to an unoccap'-
ed room in the attic, where-having en-
sconced himself in the bed which stood
there-he,passe the day reading some
old novel or bookof history, picked out OF
the great chest in the garret used Tor the
repository of rubbish; or, by way of .vari-
alton, he sometimes. toon refuge in the
barn, and snugly hidden on the hay-mow,
spent the time in silent meditation ON his
unfortunate destiny. He would walk q
mile around through the fields to avoid
meeting young lady; and when in the
street, if he heard the sound Of wheels he
would leap over the wall or fence and lie
prone on the ground until the vehicle
had passed by.
AS he grew older, he lost mono of his
neculiarities, and before he was sixteen
years of age. his mothers chief difficulty
was the fear that he would, live an old
bachelor. Hundreds of silver dollars
could not have induced him to speak to a
girl ofhis age, and his father was obliged
to forego his purpose of sending him to
the Whitesboys' school.
But Notwithstanding Harry excessive
bashfulness, he grew up to be fine tel-
low-brave, generous and handsome, and
there was-not girl in town but would
have felt. herself honored by his prefer
ence. Harry, however, stood aloof from
all the female sex, and as natural conse-
ouence, he was the subject of numberless
practical jokes, and the hapless occasion
of continual giggling among the gay girls
at the singing school.
When Harry was nineteen, Rosalic Wa
ters came to. Whitestown to pass some
time with her aunt, Mrs. Judge Flanders
Rosalie was a pretty, bright-eyed, mis-
chievous fairy of seventeen, and if the
truth must be confessed, she took quite i
liking to handsome, bashful Harry Single
ton; but of course she was too much OF 6
coquette to allow Harry to guess it. He
on his part thought himself dead in love
4honnh he dared not raise his eyes to thu