Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-08-02
yes Brickuel, T have two parents and
four ante. parents

four ante. parents
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My ma taught school and skinnsd eels,
and my father was an eel catcher and sill
ver.tongued politician -' -. ..-4 80, j. -, -
How many boys cans't thou spank in q
dayT 49,.
Il have spanked twenty.seveu in an hour
and it want a good hour for spanking
either ...-....-,
sAud eels! How many eels cans't thou
peel in day. Tell me thou educator OF
the world!'
.Well now, that 10 q pretty right smart
of a question! I guess I kin skin six a
minute r skin 'em and sling 'em over
my shoulder into that are tub, and kin
keep one in the air all the time, like cows
tail in fly time, and I aint much Of . skinist
nutherP
docs it hurt the eels !
sWhy of course it kills the eels! But
that is his fault. If he'd had his skin put
| on .other side ont stwouldn't hurt 'em any.
'Twould have slid CT itself! Its our doc.
trpe in New England to have things con-
form to our notions, even if the eeis we
skin don't like it. You see this is the hub
and the cells have no rights We the skin
ners are bound to respect r and into the air
she playfully tossed another yard Of fsubdued,
quiVering agonyl
Says We .. -.-a
do you skin 'em for fun or for profit |!
Betsey said it was for both. There was
money in 1t, and it was fun to see them
squirm, for they had no business to be eels,
and to come to New England in the spring
and fall for what they wanted. And thus
Betsey taught me to love. Gentle chris.
tianized Betseg!
And kissed her. And I hugged her
there then. Aud I told her she should be
happy. And that she should have eels to
skin forever That I'd have one made on
purpose! Then she smiled and said she'd
be mine, 30 called, if I'd agree to find her
in eels; to find young ones for her to spank /;
to let her come once year to bear the big
organ aud rock her baby in the cradle of
liberty to let her kiss every niger she
saw; to let her spend half her time iu
peddliug tracts and making flannel shirts
for babies in Africa, and would do my best
to extend the blessed gospel and the like.
ness of Ben Butler in the benightened
region beyond the hub.
I consented to all she wanted of me ex.
cept the nigger. On that l was frrum.
So was Betsey. She said 'nigger or single
blessedness.' She said they were her pets.
I told her was democrat Oh gracious |!
She Strengthened up till her corsests snap.
ped like pistol! I thought she had gone
off! But she hadn't. She was there yet.
Said she, as she scruncbed an eel in her
haud and waved her peeling machine over
her head:
you a Democrat! Marry Democrat ?
Go way! Git eout Don't tech me Oh
you great, nasty western man! Take your
arm away from around my intellectual
breast Oh! you great, ugly, western be
man I'd skin You like an eel Oh, CIT
eout! Rise your hoary locks from that ere
lap I'll take my eels aud fly from your
advances Marry democrat? I'm no
such woman! Oh! you great big, red
whiskered, grey beaded, savage, unrefned,
uncultivated, uueddicated, big, nasty, he
man How dare you talk to me. I'd die
first, and then I wouldn't! And she done
as Joseph did in the night and went off
into Egypt, leaving me in bed of eel
skins. And now I'm q gone nutmeg, q
busted what do you.callit. Pvs lost my
Betsey Jerusba, and must live in the west
beyond the eels and school marin charms of
her I so adoried, for us Of the west are not
of the eel.ite Thine, upskinped,
brick PoMERoY.