Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-08-02

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g. This fatal likeness ever dogged -. ....
e&$s' Our footsteps when at school;
For Twas always getting hoeg'd
Since John turned OUT "a fool fool: -
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I found her in Boston. Betsey Jerusha
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thirstsd for intellect. hungered for beau.
". i achsd for charms. / required gen.
tle being with mind like horse billiards to
guide me through this vale Of steers Invent
to Boston to find my love. ! found her
She vss school teacher who drew seven
dollars month for spanking the rule OF
three into the vulgar fractions oonfded to
to her charge, and for adding accomplish
gsners as 'twere to the result Of others mul-
tiplicstion. Figuratively speaking. After
school was disbanded for the day, we walked
out to the beach. Birch by day and beach
by night s@ ~ - >'ss'7
My love was beautiful She was of the
Nav England type She was pure. isanti,
cal. Thus worshippsd her, the most beau:
tifulest snt in the sugar bowl.
- And she made both ends meet by skin.
ming eeis. She was most exalted and tri-
umphant eel skinnist. The Massachusetts
gifls teach school and skin eels for market.
Said j. aBetsey, if its not skin too much,
let me 60 out With thee and aid in thy tolls,
and thee divest eel of cuticle' She said
yea. I went. She had hooked nose. She
had three hoops--at regular intervals. She
was Massachusetts, school. marin. She IN.
dsrstood all of Daboll but the multiplied,
tiou. She had never been on the multiply !!
Oh mo- And she could skin eels faster than
thedeyil could catch fddlers.
BY the beach We sat. She skinned eels
for the net proceeds We talked Of love
and sich. She listened to my tale. She
felt the moving of my plea; the burning
eloqusnce thereof, so called. Said I,
ooh, Betsey, seein' its yeou, love yeou
I sweow. 1 wouldst be thine. Iwould share
thy cot, and
sAnd dream sleep with thee, love-
Wouldst be mineY am stranger, Betsey
am not aged, but oD the contrary am agile
as those eel. I will offer thee all I have
I would be thus to thee. would crawl out
of myself as those eel crawls out of his un-
dershirt in thy hands, and be thy onlyest
She took up another eel.
sOh Betsey'-said I, as laid partly on
the grass, partly in the lap of Betsey, with
the slickery tails of ber eels tickling my
nose-swere you ever caressted by mortal
She said no, and looked sidewise.
She took another eel.
then caressted her Said she, praise
the Lord, but that is the first kiss ever NOR
tai man gave me- I asked if she liked it !?
She said it war better Dor spaukings young.
nm or skinniu big eel. She said she liked
school teaching. 1t was better than gym.
nasium. She said kissing was better than
skinning eels. When Massachusetts, girl
says that, you may with the lambs Oh the
hills, gamble that she liketh it with vehe
ment muchuess.
The pale moon slid along over the head
just as easy! 1t seemed to skin itself from
under the Aeecy clouds, as those eels skin
ned themselves from the fingers of my Bet
sey Jerusha. 1t sat me to thinking she
was something heavenly, like the moon
Only she was little plumper. 1t was 8
new moon. Newer than Betsey, and lit
tie sinner. / conversed with Betsey. She
had little knife like shoe knife I would
have thought her a shoemaker if she had
carried cobbler's kitten and a wsxed end
But she didn't She skinned eels, chawed
spruce gum and talked love. Said she
tWhat is your nameT
asked We, the reverberating coguomen
to which We respond2'
Said she, tyes.'
Said We, Brick Pomeroy.'
Then she asked us of our western home.
She wanted to know what State Illinois was
in, and if Wisconsin was in the First or Sc.
coud ward of La Crosse. And she wanted
to know if we had young ones 10 the west.
We told her not many yet! Then she wan.
ted to know if the Mississippi had eels in
it., We told her nay. And she wanted to
know if the people out in that barbarous
region wore clothes every day or only when
they went sparkling, And she wanted to
know how far it was from where we lived to
house. And she wanted to know if they
spanked or ferruled youngsters in schools,
and if we had schools. And she wanted to
know if women dressed in bearskins or til.
ting hoops, which We suppose are all the
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