Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-06-07
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S@ Our older readers may have seen
the following, which we copy from scrap
book. 1t is letter written by a young
lady, newly married, to an intimate friend.
She was obliged to show all the letters she
wrote to her husband, hence the ingenious
device adopted for expressing her real opin.
ion of married life:
81 cannot be satisfied, my dearest friend !
blest as l am in the matrimonial state,
unless I pour into your friendly bosom,
which has ever been in unison with mine,
the various sensations which now swell
with the liveliest emotion of pleasure,
my almost bursting heart. I tell you my dear
husband is the most amiable OF men,
have now been married seven weeks, and
have never found the least reason to
repent the day that Joined us. My husband is
in person and manners far from resembling
ugly, CROSS, old, disagreeable and jealous
monsters, who think by con6ning to secure
q wife it is his maxim to treat as
bosom friend and con6dant, and not as
play.thing and menial slave, the woman
chosen to be his companion. Neither party,
he says, should always obey implicitly
but each yield to the other by turns
An ancient maiden aunt, near seventy,
a cheerful, venerable, and pleasant old lady,
lives in the house with us-she is the de-
light of both young and old; she is ci-
vii to all the Deighborhood around,
generous and charitable to the poor
I believe my husband loves nothing more
than be does me; he fatters me more
than the glass, and his intoxication,
(for so l must call the excess of his love-
often makes me blush for the unworthiness
of its object, and wish were more deserving
of the man whose name bear. To
say all in one word, my dear--,and to
crown the whole, my former gallant lover
is now my indulgent husband, my fondness
is returned, and might have had
a Prince, without the felicity I find in
him. Adieu may you be as blest as am un'
able to wish that I could be more
happy.
NJ B.-Re key to the above letter, is
to read the first and every alternate line
only.
DOUBLE CHARGED "A good story is
told of one George Sha6er, who, many
years ago, lived at Portsmouth. He had
once been out shooting, and was coming
home with his game.bsg empty and weary.
when he stopped at the dollhouse for mo-
ment's rest. "There's a fine lot of ducks
back here in the pond" said he to the toll
keeper. "What will you let me fire into
them for?" "Csn't do it," responded the
toll.keeper, 81 don't want to have my ducks
killed" George put his gun in the toll.
house, and walked back to take another look
at the ducks. When be was gone, the toll
man, who was wag, drew the shot from
the barrel, and replaced the gun. George
returned and renewed the question. well,
said the toll-man, though you are good
shot, don't believe you can hurt them
much. Give me your money, and you may
fire." The money was paid, and quite
party. who had gathered round, went back
to witness Georges discontinue. He rails,
ed his gun, fired, and killed nine of them.
"Bless me !" cried the tollman 81 took
the charge out of your gun" eyes," said
George, 81 supposed you would. always
go double. charged"
p@ A cotemporary has adopted the
practice, which is becoming quite common,
of marking papers with an X on the expi'
ration of subscriptions. A subscriber re.
Gently resr onded in the following X-ceeding
ly x cellent Excerpt: Messrs. Lansing
That your Exposition is X-cusablein the y.
ira X Inhibited on the X.terior of the last
Standard, you will allow me to X.press my
readiness to amt. Please X.amine the en-
closed X. change, and if deemed X-piatiou
for my renissness, it will be X.pected that
you will X tend to me an Xoneration from
your X.actions, by X-purging or X.scin'
ding the said X from my next paper Not
that your mode is by any means Exception
able, in ercising right, but rather to be
X.tolled, as very, Expeditions one in ma,
king X-amples of delinqueuts.
Yours, truly.
@r well sonny, whose pigs are those !?
"Old sow's SIR" "Whose SOW is it?"
"Old mans, SIR" "Well, then, who's your
old man ?" eff you'll mind the pigs I'll run
home and ask the old woman" Never
mind, sonny / want smart boy what
can you do?" "Oh, I can do more than con-
siderable. can milk the geese, ride the
turkeys to water, hamstring the grasshop-
pers, light fires for flies to court by, cut the
buttons off dads coat when he is at prayers,
keep tally for dad and nam when they scod
at mark odd woman is always ahead"
"Got any brothers ?'' ''Lot's Of 'em-all
named Bill, except Bob-his names Sam.
My names Larry, but the call me Lazy
Lawrence for sbortness."
A DELICATE QUESTION. -"Why is the
letter like ring?" said young lady to
her accepted one day. The gentleman,
like the generality of his sex in such sit
uation, was as dull as a hammer. "Be-
cause added the lady with q very modest
look at the picture at the other end of the