Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-07-18

Rhody says if the kar goes, her "band-box" will,
certaa, and sha.re- then you kno me and Robert
will halter go two.
I am yours, quite hoarse, as per above,
GENES MUNRO.
POSTSCRIPT. don't believe I told you how
got knocked outer the Union. Well,
it happened in this wise Notlong er go Bill Nose
ly kome ter my house and axed me and my folks
to er getherin at his mammys, and not ter fail to
bring our nives forks spoons, dishes, and all our
krockery Rhody said she felt sorter kakefed, and
we must go. We etc no dinner that day-savin
oursefs Well, we got thar about o klock in the
P. NJ. The folks had begun ter arrive, in konsid:
erable sqads-some on horses, some in waggins and
some er foot-an Of EN- in Sunday klothes and look
in hungry. Everybody seem ter turn out-even
down to Yank skoolmaster- he kome too. This
here feller was tryin ter marry some er the gals,
and war always pokein his face whar it want want
ed. Dark kome, and nice long tallow orbs er nsght
war lit and shattered permiskuous in the house,
and then, such rumpass as the young folks did
kick up-playin "Pon Onnor,' "Old Sister Phe-
BY" "Kome Kiss me Quickly" and so 4th-I
thought they shake the top er the house Off
Bout o'klock old unkle Davy, the niger fiddler
kome. Then that aforesaid rumpass got konsider-
ably r1mpasse- they piched inter reel, old fash
ioned-ther heels mighty nigh talked, and that thar
fiddle-well, it made old folks sygh for being old.
After while they sot down terrest noticed none
of the gals would dance with the skoolmaster, and
he didn't have chance to show hisself of. He
tried Sal Mory-she wouldn't dance with him,
but went rite out on the floor with Bob. Bob ar a
good reel dancer and in single foot jig, can beat
anybody that ever shuck foot They hadn't sot
thar long restin, afore somebody said Lets in
tersperse with q jig" When this war said, Bob
stepped out on the floor, sous bolus, and said he
could beat anybody thar, in that sort er dancing.
The skoolmaster, thinkin this the best time to
show off, stepped out and said if they'd give him
q far shoin, he guessed he'd try to trot reel
with Bob" They then throwed up heds and tails
fur who should dance lst, and it fell on Bob. He
walked out on the floor, lookin like Prince; he ar
a handsome boy -takesafter the Munro's. 'WeD,"
says he ter Unkle Davy-says he ''give us Rack
Back, Davy, on yer insterment old man, and III
lossen my jints fur you" Unkle Dayy showed all
his frunt teeth-give a skratch at the fiddle with
the bow, and she began talkin in her most melli-
auous language. couldn't keep from pattin my
foot looked around, and Rhody war giving me
one other old time, berwichin smiles. Iknow'd
she war thinking how we ulster to dance that same
jig, 80 yeres ago, when we war kourtin Yes, sir,
like bubbles being up in hot pot, these old time
things kome wellin up through the mist Of the
past to the top of my present recollection! Bob
he bergun walkin round and round on tip-toe-
heels strikin now and then ter keep time; then he
turned squar to the fiddler and bergun some Of his
prettiest leks, regular dema-sema-quava double
shuttle; then his feet got so fast you couldn't tell
which was which. All of a sudden he jumped
round, faced the gals, and bergun the knock-kneed
step. "Kome down to yer knitten, Marser Bob," 1"
said Unkle Davy, and first thing kuowed, he war
down on the floor, keepin time with his knees,
toes, elbows and hands; then he sprung out full
length on his stomck, rolled over and war standin
strait up before you kould think. Bob turned to
the skool man, made sort of kurtsy, and said -
'You' re welcome to the floor now, Sir" That
feller walked out on the floor. Jest then Sally
Morrow slipped split goose aig in his hind coat
pockit. She war rapid gal always in some mis-
chief The feIer looked sorter fustered, and ber-
gun dancn slow sorter step, whar you uses in
wouldn't fit Jig, and he war gittin kon-
siderably non-plushed when Sally Morrow hol-
lowed out, ':jump up andkross-yourlegs." Think
in this would please the gals, he sorter squatted,
then jumped about feet off the floor, and kros-
sed his legs, sorter smiin and lookin at Sally but
when he was krossin his legs in the air, that thar
aig busted in his hind koat pocket, like young
gun, and he kome down on the floor fat-footed,
and shuck the hole house. He war skeered-hay-
ing herd the burst, he knowed sumthin war rong.
Putin on the foolishest grin ever seed q feller
have, he bergun lookin round one side, then ON
tother. 'Twant me" said Bob; me, nuther, :"
said Sally Morrow Better go out and shake
yerself," said Bob "W-h-yl Robert!' said Rho
dy. Just then-Jarushalam what smell kome
putin up inter our noses Such nuther runnin
out er the room you never seed everybody wanted
to smell somethin t4s;Whars my ridikule, with
hartshorn in it?' said Minerva Skales. 'Sakes er
live break bottle er camfur," said Miss Kissiah
Krump; and old Miss Marrow, the parsons wife,
war left sittin up in the korner by the fireplace,
dippin snuff She war such good cristian, she
wouldn't jine in the ginneral skedaddle. However,
she sot thar as long as she kould stand hit. Sud-
denly she got Whit and jumped up, and as she
run ont er heavin, said: "Soe brother soiU please
burn a rag.
That Skool man got out er the winder in the
dark and amt been seed since. Howsever, a piece
er aig shell war found at the depo next d. That
war an amusin circumstance at the time but our
foxes here are considerably skeered now. Bout
4 weeks after this here transpired, one Of Thads
RAIDS gifts up in Kongriss, and made np-snorting
speech agin the South; wanted us throwed back
100 yers in Territori all our laws kilt; konGska-
sion, fire and bud to rip riot all over Dixie. Then
he bergun readin letters from persikuted and killed
loyel men, whar had been run out er the South !;
read bout one what war invited to publik festi-
val, and while enjoyin the okasion, pubikally, and
in presence of more 200 Southern folks war blow
up plum through winder by "a torpedo placed in
his hind koat pocket, and barely eskaped with his
life and small portion of his koat tail, ter tell the
sad tail. Ever since I herd er that, I've been
lookin fur Kongriss Kommittee ter kome down
here and try some of us fer our lives. When they
do kome, want that Duchman (Sheilabarger) ter
bring along piece of that blowed up koat tall
maybe it smells er that ag yit, and we kan prove
pint by it-that is to ter say, by the odor That
thar topedo letter settled Massasippi's hash, and
she two war made Territori.
Yourn, q. NJ.
B1sMARcK's LAST SEaAR.-"We learn to ap-
preciate the value of good segar only when it is