Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-11-08
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Mutually Mistaken.

SettlDS lOTIu W FlsiI nio oous oJ
who lived seveuty-fve miles away, in the
thriving little village of Grayburg.
sYes'am,' responded Joshua dutlfully,
I'll keep my eyes peeled for em. Guess If
they ketch this child mapping they'll rise
airlier than they're used to-
That's right, my lad. alters knowed
you was the smartest Of the family, Joshua,
but I guess when you come to go about and
see things you'll turn out smarter'n ever
thought. There is the keers comm now
Look out and hold fast to your valise! And
don't forget to be keerful of yer fathers
watch, and don't smoke no cigars, nor
drink no water without looking into it.
Cause there was woman that I've heard
sister Betsey tell about, out there, that
drinked live snake! And do try and not
dirty more'n two dickies a week It'll
make it such hard washing for your aunt,
ands she's got the rhumatiz, you know.
Now look out for your pocket-book! Tell
Betsy to send up that resate for color blue
and making that squinch sass-and-and-
lordy! here they be! and with kiss that
made the very locomotive give snort
eff amazement, Mrs. Barker tore herself
away.
Joshua seated himself in the very middle
of the car-he had heard it said that there
was less danger there, and holding his va
lise in his lap, he put one hand on his
watch, and the other on his pocket book,
and mentally de6ed pickpockets. He had
heard so much of the dreadful doing in the
cars, that he thought it impossible to use
too much precaution.
At the next station they took up rather
pretty, but decidedly nervous looking young
lady, in blue bonnet and pink drees.
She paused beside Joshua, and asked tim
idly
lis this seat engaged?
mo, not as I know of? stammered Josh.
ua, bushing up to his hair. want to set
down?
Thank you,' and she sat down so grace
fully that her expansive crinoline spread
entirely over Joshua's knees and valise,
and completely enveloped our perspiring
hero in an avalanche of Aounces, shawl,
ring and patchouly.
Both of the young people seemed very
much frightened. Joshua began to finger
his pockes-book nervously shifting it from
thence to his vest, and finally depositing it
in his hat, wishing at the same time thai he
could drop it into his boot.
The young lady idgetted, eyed her COM
papiou askance-pulled her bonnet strings,
and clutched tightly the handle of her ret
icule, but after little while, both seemed to
get easier, and Joshua screwed up his
courage to say something.
'Fine day, marm.'
sYes; rather cool, though
That's fact. Cooler than it was yes
terday.'
yes, hut not so cool as it was last winter
mo stree! Terrible cold Friday last
winter, want thereT
lawful was you out any
sOut! I rather guess I was in the spruce
swamp driving old Buck and Broad all
day y!-Golly! how the frost stood ON 'em?
yes, I think its likely
A dead silence At last, said Joshua,
with desperate effort at sociability-
sGoing far?
TO Grayburg.'
you haint! So be I, quite coutiu-
gency haint p and both giggled. They
were beginning to get acquainted.
Joshua took his hand away from his
watch aud put it around the back of the
seat.
sGoiDg to stay there long, Miss?'
"A week, guess. Be you"
sAbout as long as you, responded Joshua,
letting his hand rest on the back of her
Highland shawl; and feeling very much as
he did when Deacon JenGers caught him
robbiDg his pet pear tree. The young lady
drew back.
Law! you mustn't do SO, sir. 1t haint
proper ,
sI'd like to know what's to hinder?' cried
Joshua boldly.
folks will see usv simpered the young
lady.
sWho keers = cried Joshua, I'm twenty
one years old, and got fathers watch in my
pocket and ten dollars besides and forget
ting that he had deposited it in his hat, he
felt for it in his pocket. 1t was gone!
Jerusalem? roared Joshua springing to
his feet in terrible dismay-'taint there it's
gone! I've been robbed somebody's COM
mitted arson on my person and pocket? He
glared at the young lady by his side, who
from some cause was getting as excited as
himself, feeling first in her pocket and then
in her reticule.
You've got It'll! thundered he-1 might
have knowed you warn't respectable I've
heered marin say hundred times that no
decent woman ever wore one of them water
falls. You got it while I was hugging of
you, I hadn't any biziness to hug another
gal when I'm keeping company with Peggy
Ann scriggins! Ten dollars gone-ten
dollars that father got for the brindley calf
and the cUbtail sheorl Hand it over, or
by scissors, Pn search yeh s"ee woman p
The young lady sprang up e,.e