The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-04-24

SUIT rotated the story thus: "George did
YOU ever see Sicily BurnesY Her dad lives
at the Ratil Snaik Spring, nigh to the Gregory
line"
"Yes, very handsome girl"
Handsome! that w.rd don't kiver the case;
it sounds like calm good whiskey water,
when ye are at Big Spring and the still house
ten miles off, an hit rainin' an yer flask only
half full. She shows among wimen like
sinfiower as compared tu dog fennull and
smart weed to jimsin But thar amt no use
tryin' to describe her. Couldn't crawl thu
whiskey barrel with both heads stove out, if
hit wur hilt sturdy fur her. an good foot holt
at that. She ways just two hundred All twenty
six pounds, and stands sixteen hands high
She never got into arm cheer in her life
anisyou can lock the top Of churu ur q big
dog collar round her waist I've seed her
jump over the top Nv split bottum cheer and
never show her ankle or ketch her dress onto
it. She keried devil enuf about her to fill
tour hoss waggin bed, with skin as white as
the inside of frogstuol, checks an lips as red
as pearches gils in dogwood blossom time an
SIGH smile! Oh, be drafted eff its eny uso
.alsn IhHt @ epa 81 XIII ffs ae enos I'd Sneak ak
Nv dad, eff she jist limited that she wonted sich
thing dun.
"Well to tell it all at once she war gal
all over, from the pint NV her toe nails tu the
longest har on the highest knob Nv her head
gal all the time, everywhere-and that of
the cxcitincst kind. Ov course leaned up
tn her rs close MS / dar tu, and in spite ov
long legs, appetite for whiskey, my shurt
scrape, and dads actin hoss, she softer leaned
up to me, an l was begiunin to think war
the greatest comfortablist man on ycth not
exceptin Ole Buck or Brigham Yuug, with
all his radil cullered, wrinkled wi,nmin, cradels
full Of babies. and Big Salt Lake thrown ill.,
Well, wun day cussed deceivin, palavc-
rim, Yankee pcdlar, all jack aud jaw
cum to old man Burncs, with load of
apple parins, callicker, ribbins jewsharps an
s-o-dy powders. Now mind I'd never
hearn tell oy that truck aforc, an be darned
eff | don't want it to be the last--wus nor
as smart an hurts wus, heap wus Durn him.
Durn all Yankee pcdlars. and durn their prin-
ciples and practsis say. wish he had all
the sody powders they ever make in his cusscd
paunch, aud a slow match fixed tn him. an |
had chunk ov fire, tho Teller what found a
piece of him big enuf to feed o cockroach,
ought tu be king of the Sultans harem o
thousand years for his luck. They aint human
no how. The mint at Filadclfy is thar heaven;
they think their god eats half dimes for break
fast hashes the lcvns for dinner, an swollows
cent on dried apple for supper, sets on
stamping machine for throne sleeps on
crib full ov half dollars, and measures men
like money, by count. They haiat one of
them got soul but what cud dance Jig in
kabbagc seed, and leave for the fiddler.
swell, Sicily bought tin box ov the sody
from him, an hid it away from the folks a
savin it for me. hapPon'd to pass next day,
an ov course stopped to enjoy a look at the
tempter, and she wur mighty lovin tu me,
put one arm around my neck and luther one
whar the circingle goes round moss, tuck
| tiie lutufI On me Win AeT tclD luL an gin me
a kiss. Says she:
."Sutty, love, I've got somethin fur ye, d
new scnsatiou"-an believed it, fur begun
to feel it already. My toes felt like little
minners were nibblin at enl-a cold streak
runnin up and down my back like lizard
with hen turkey arter him in setin time,
my heart felt hot and onsatisfed like, and
then I'd shot old Soul eff she had hinted a
needsisity for such an operashun. Then she
poured ten or twelve blue papers ov the sody
inter big tumbler, and about the same num-
Der of white ones inter luther tumbler, an put
nj onto pint of water on both ov them, and
stirred EN- up with case knife, lookin as
solem as an ole jackass, in a snow storm,
when the fodder is all gin out. She hilt one
while she told inc TO drias .uthor. I swai.
lowed it at oae run-tasted salty Ike, :hos