The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-06-10
CHAPTER XXXIII.

tuck noshin thet it wood be rip
stavin idee 2 go and Civ my shugar plum
a moonlito surenaid, SO [ gifts up and gifts
my cat-gut screocher that was hangin,in
its green bag on the wall, and started for
Browns cloarin. Arrivin at the fens it
was but the worl; ov moment 2 plais my
self on tho inside Of it, and movo lords
the house. Passin thru the cabbige or
chard aforementioned, o piais soddered 2
my ,afeckshuns by bein the seen ov that
1st intervu, the speektakel was sublime.
As far as the rs Good reeoh lords the
house the avenoo wus lined on either side
by: stately cabbiges and majestic egg
plants, vile the tender punkin and cow
cumber vines timidly klung 2 the noble
corn-stawks es eff pleedin for help and
proteckshnn As sed further up, adj
vansed up this aveneo lords the house,
and takin my instrooment from the afore-
| lsed green bag, L sot 2 work toonen' her
up, (he fiddle, not the green bag,) and |
thru sed bag on the grass ontil [ shood
be comm back. I went up 2 the houce,
and tekin up my posishun under ole
Browns gable eend, / started the musick.
Bein in solem mood, the lst thing |
struck up was the march of the Deceased
in Saul Well, got as far es the End
semmy- y-dcmmy quiver in the 3rd varia
shun, when 1 heerd rustlin sound in
the bushes in my immejit flank and reer
and I turned round suddenly, expectin 2
Bhold the bean Of my lov, when, O hor-
-ror ov horrors
! CHAPTER XIV
The site my rs rested on most froze
my blud in my jugulars, for there in the
pail lite of tho moon, not 10 feet from
whar / stud, was standin the most fero-
shus, blood thirsty lookin gallinipper ever
my rs beheld, out ov whose immense pro-
porshuns glared 2 bailful lookin obs ov
fire, whose gals wus on my bludess koun-
tenens stood ruted 2 the spot for the
moment, but forrid movement on the
part ov the opposit party broak the spell
thet wus woven round me, as it war
Nurved 2 desperashun, l gathered my
scattered N-ergies for a mitey effort, and
seasin my violin by the handle (worth
S63), I fred it at his fggcr he'd and start
ed
The oDy avenoo ov eskape thet pre-
sented itself led rite past the houce and
down lords the smoak-houco; all my
hopes inslife war sentered inEthat smoak-
houce, for eff Good reech it be bean
oyertaiken by tother party, in the Ian
guege of the poick, 81 may be happy yit!"
My feet got the loan ov flu pare of
wings from feer and FLU. I Good plainly
heer the footsteps of my foa gain'n on me
at every stop. Oh the horror of them
moments; every ackshion of my life past
be me-the hoam ov my childhud roso
to my va, and of how used hide under
the barn when my sainted mother sent
mo to chop wood. thot ov Geneveeve
angelic Geneveeve! o, thot I, it's hard
2 die in the bloom of yewth and mako no
sine! At the thots ov this my brane
rccled-everythiDg swan bcfoar mol
could heer the gallinipper closin on me-I
folt his hot broth on my cheek, when my
foot struck root and wus prostraited 2
the erth with force by no means gentle.
when suddenly [ heerd q rushin sound
thru the air follercd by MKT yell of
pane aud rage from the gallinippcr, when
every thing grew dark around me. Twas
faintin. As konshussnes wus leevin me ]
felt my he'd elaspt by som l and [ mur-
mured: Tell-my-mother-how l di-.
I then hurd musick and butiful singn in
| the distens.
Stranger had swuned-swuned in the
arms of my angelic bein.
CHAPTER XIV.
How long I renamed in this kritikel
kondishun hev no korreckt idee; sufIis
it 2 sal that when kun 2, found my
self lyin' on O bed-ov salad, with abuv
sed angelic bean bendin' over me. She
had unshipped her back hare and plaised
it under my he'd, and was bathin' my
kountenans with well water and calm
me by nanos swoeter than emmy be
found in the konfeckshuner's kalender.
Old Brown was thar, also, standin' aloof,
with folded arms, survayin' the seen! Ike
{ was thar, also, sarchin' my cote pockits
(Which the MAIDEN had pulled off me) 2 to
diskoyer my IDENTIFY of possible.
AS l opened my eys Geneveeve hollcred,
SIZE lives he lives lie breethes he
breethes! O! I thot he was dedp 1
thot she was re6rrin' 2Ithe lait so-caled
gallinipper, so murmured, "Nook him on
the he'd wy don't you! stop his wind
beseech theep' AS uttered those words
Geneyeeve jumt up and fell down in
swune.
got up then, and with the assstens
oy the outsiders spoken Nv further up,
konstruckted a litter ov close poles, and
boar her the manshun.
The female stingaree alreddy spoken
ov then took charge ov hir, and from ole
Jones l larned all I didn't no about the
afare alreddy.
/ don't intend toll how he tole mo
that Genoveevo hurd my surenaid and
was kumin to meet me wen she saw my
| rnral Nor how sha an1u that tho rilli-