The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-06-10
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.-i;.vErom the New Orleans Sunday Crescent
The Narrowing Fragment Of a
=, Romantic Story.
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CHAPTER XXI.
BIZ PINE E. WOODS.

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CHAPTER XXI. :
ST viii now rakur few the insydent al
looded tew in. the 4goin' chapters. And
;this is the insydent.
gse4 Ona kan still moonliae mite in Joon,
Is6-=, soliterry joskin mite be seen set
Tin, and ,smokin' 1.-THE porch of Farmer
.sJonesess farmhouse. e-ssg.4ss4:
:: Stranger, was that joskin..
~, AS l sot and smoked thunk and thunk
.zlst of thing and tHen Of another, ontill
finally my .thots settled on the neeee OF
inabor Brown, Geneveeye--sweet Gene
> iVeeFe ST. Muggins,: who9 tho had seen
her but 2ioe and spoke to her but Ice,
:. had already won my fresh yung hart.
:, orfarner Jones had told me all about
the critters haven 4 or 5000 S in her own
rito, and SO 9TH, and how he>liked the gal
&aItho, old Brown was her unkle, With
; hoom he had bin at loggerheeds for yeers
ION, account Of . lorsoot. s4
- - THE fuststime Elsesd ths critter was at
meetin', but she he'd anuther feller with
her, SOL had no sho to speek2 2 her.
thesneKt time ] clapt eyes on her,
: I was more lucky.
com on her as she was, in the act of
arivin, our ole gray bull out'n her unkle's
: cabbige orchard, and the bull bein' ours
III felt oasd upon to maik some exkuse for
his thotlesness. Sc gittin' off my mule
and hitchins him. the feus, advanced
: lords the MAIDEN with my hart thumpin'
:. like onSo the shopper of q rice mill at by
water.
aExcnse me miss, y sed I, tfur maxim so
free es 2 speak to yu, but .seein es our ole
!. ball hes made SO free with your cabbiges,
I.faelit my dooty. as tho ony representa-
!. tif of the Jonesess INTEREST present at the
time bean, 2 beg. og yu 2 overlook this
!. youthful indiskreeshun of hisp, and 2
ashure yu that shood it unfortunately oo-
bur agin-:--"0 *
- s'Should it ockur agin!" sez the MAIDEN,
: sssWell, EFF itsdos reckon I'll spill bis hide
fur him, stranger, as shore es yore foot
I: hy lvss :.
uGterin those words, her dishevoled hare
: dun up'in net, her rite hand graspin a
shoop pole, and her left hand s,hoidin up
qhi,r close outn the mud, she formed q
Rietur for en- artist -.
go, ;ouailed be 4 tho look Of thoas fashin
IH, an strateway .sot 2 work fxin up
,thsfens, and Gnr the next Is minutes Or
&c, very little past betwix Us except the
:. BANNER and males. When the fens Wus
Ased, she {Geneveeve) got up and sot on
;shs;top rales sfannin herself with her son
Sbonnet- g.. -.
:. aDurn lin fur an ugly, good for moth
:. ia looking critter amy how" murmured
: the MAIDEN, wipin her eyebrows with her
skirt, and lookin straite of me, "he's maid
ssne swet wus,n plow hoss."
=. Not nowin wether she meant mo or the
i; ;;sbbnll, ] blushed and kept silent
A klumsy silens follered this, wen all of
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sS.}s7$ s.ls7 sz-z e. 80: CHAPTER XII.
/. u. .She Jumps down of''n the fens and seq /:
~ sI8 reckonsI'd ID better. git, or I'll hev som
: sbsllerin at me from the house" when I
@grasped her arm and ejaclsulated, "Stay
1moment Miss st. Mnggins-l moment,
j sweet Geneyeeye, let me beg oy yu 2lend
me just 81" Is:
hCan't see 1t, stranger don't no you
Z good enuf92 lend you nothin."
- "You misunderstand me, my hunny-
suckle," sell, 'otis yore attenshun I wood
( borrow from you long enu6 fer me 2pore
:: out at yore feet my melted feelins! On
til tell you, that senoe my rs fust Bheld
yore By nc. .meens homely teetyurs, those
:: feetyurs heY bin Ngraved on my fresh
: yung.s hart-ontill 1 tell yu how I've
dreemed ov you mite and day ontill even,
-ezontill even Mustard pies have lost thar
= charm, for me-ontill tell You finally
ssd 7, Qookin around for o dry plais 2
neel down. s'untel tell you finally, that
IIoy yon by no meens tamely, and that
without you life 2 me- hens 4th will be q
blank, -thet is nary prize. Speek, Gene
fveeve," sed, I, 'speek, dearest, and let me
no ct Ice my probable prospecks in the
present premises :.
ssfWhipsnaiks and not-ti.d mokasins p
!, SEE the MAIDEN, "ef you amt long wind
ed kuss ov lover, I don't want cent.
We!l.2 tell the trooth, stranger" aez she,
:pnlIin up her stockins, 81 tuck a ikin 2
s.5yon the 1st time I seed youa at the meet.
m, altho' kant sal hankered artor yu
tho. and ]. reckon mite es well hich on
2 yu ;es thet bilyus lookin ghadder Of Gus,
Ike Brown, for the old man swares !
3 shill hex:2-m marry Ike yet. You no Ike,
sLTeckonj he's ole Browns son. reckon
= he thinks thet's the only way he kin keep
my stamps in the family"
18Th her, !" sed ], risin 2 my feet, 'sthen
@aihou tellest mo that may hoap! O!
y angeliek bean words aint nowhar to ex-
press my feelins p
ssRoop r'' sez the MAIDEN, "hev I not
told thee thet thou hast ded thing ov it,
thou gamp Of gumpsn
;. = Az the last words dide on her lips she
-pilode her waterfall on my my manly