The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-05-07

Sow ioyei aud taste ils frnitage pure;
Sow peace. and reap it's harvest bright;
Sow snn-beams on the rock and moor;
And find hnrveet home Of light.
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MY vengeance. ~ .y.
Ialways get my bit o. midday susie
nance at the opposition shop now-Ab-
SALON. J. Runt's-for l. ain'A been to
Slobbs' for months. II you'd like. ter
know why,rwal, or whether or no, TIL
tell you. It's because some of our boys
have mort'lly grand idee of Derringers
and BDWish md they don't take kyindly
yet to the sheriff and the committee of
vigilance: We're d rising oity, though,
at West Paraira; and what we shall be
in q 3ew; years there amt no tellip atIall U:
but It'll be sight, stranger; and II you
OF the rotten old country don't gnaw
your teeth with enuy, wby,- my name
ain't Hiram. r
You see the great P'cific line goes
through us clean, and we've been risin'
ever since it started. There amt city
out West with-more bars where you can
have SMILEY or; Q morning> painter; If
there is, toll me oh 10. Then see1whnt
lnstitootions we've got rising fast, from
Nathan D. Anson's store, right down to
the Para}ra Solid Milk and Butter Com
hundred an eight. Slobbs' is in Gross
street, number nine, as p'r'aps you know:
Absalom J. Runt's is in Straight street,
and there's mortal enmity betwe On
them. It's the steam does it, + think.
lett on going 70 6lobbs' because I
sVvu6as 1sEwa5 guUu il,I mo, bsin a Vsfy
mild, einofenHiye sort OF fellow. You
sec there was waiter at Slohbs' as had
q sort OF spite agen me, and he'd always
give me the worst outs OF the beef and
the fatteat.of the mutton; while as to
gravy, got more gravy at Runt's in one
day than tfem at Slebbaes lei. me have
in Q week. Then allus had the wettest
salt and the etalest bread, and tho dirtiest
Enis The aHas bfoRe l3dSsd and il there
round inthe haft, that knifawas put for
me. - HSH--' "ftf -
We didn't like one e.another-me md
the waiter didn't-apd we got more and
snofe enemies every day. till I see very
plain 90 there must .be O. buse soon. I
KEEP it in, though, for I thought as
something might turn up, SO as to let me
serve Mr.. Waiter out by deputy.
There was another thing, too, as +
din't like OF Slobbs'. only it wasn't a
thing, it was great ugly customer as
always sot'on me--mettyphorically of
course, 1 mean; for he was allus mock.
ing like Of my humble ways; and if ever
ordered my glass of anythink, he'd
roar instanter for the waiter; and call for
bottle. He made hisself very onpleas.
ant to me. he did, and snubbed me on
po!ltcks more than & few; but let it all
wafs 4 saved it up, rs you may suppose,
thinking how much I should like 70 have
1t out with him; but never seemed to
get no chance till about week after
Slobbses came out strong with new set
OF j. Pnddick's Alabama 'Lecterer Plate.
warranted to wear better than solid
silver. Them spoons aud forks lust did
shine so as it seemed a pity to put 'em
III the soup, or to get 'em greasy, for You
could see your face in 'em, go as Won
never got tired Of vooing the expression
of your features.
But even the sight O. them spoons
didn't settle me, and I wasa't poinp to
be tempted into stopping, when Rnnt's
had their doors open to have me. aud
there was gravy and welkum.
This citizen as allus sot on me was
washed In with the nnme of Shimel-
Shimel B. Parsons was his total-and his
people made some ouss of mistake
or another over his name, I bet, or else
they'd never ha' took this one.
We Bot tO Inc cnm1x at last, We did: !:
and left without word, after serving
EN- both out pleasant-like. It was like
thls; Ia had bit of the toughest old
steak ever did stick teeth in since 1
le9athered for It; and after I'd been pnz-
cling my teeth with that bit O. steak for
M bali an hour. who shonld como in bnt
hang his grestoont over the rail ,,La.o
was sitting, knock down my felt lat
and then laugh. fleeting-like, at me. I
never says nothing; but that there was
tougher than the steak, and T couldn't
swaller 1t bit; but there sits with that
GOAT touching of me. and the waiter
hall grinning at me to see me so uncom-
Portable, II reckon I'd like to chaw tho
couple on yer up." ]. thinks to myself;
and then, somehow, whilo I was o
balancin' one of j. Puddick's Alabama
.Leoterer Plate Spoons on my finger, I
let 1t slip into one o. my friends 5ppo.
site coat-pookets: when. thinking rs the
poor thing might be cold all alone there