The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1872-04-06
SATURDAY. MORNING, April 6, 1872 i"

not been removed from over ther ohim-
keyboard. But the grim old patriarch
seemed to ssJog my discomfort so M uch
that started up ia disgust, and once"
more sought the window. Hero they go,
the merry crowd, laughing and chatter
ing, although every nose was in danger
Of frostbite. q
-Four wedding coaches dashed past,
lest they be late for the church, but 1
also saw ono which went slowly along,
and It recalled the lines of very senti-
mental friend, who once wrote an 'Ode.
to Christmas .,
|. 'EThe wedding coach was busy, ;H
And the hcaree was busy, too" >,
L was about to moralize on this point,
wh1uN Ntte-porters' dressed inahis Sunday
suit, EEn 2csed, ,Sto! say there was case iu
the surgery? g vent down to find a
nioSSouag man IN Sdelfridm tire enons,,
who requested draaght, and glad
was to get him out: lest he might do me
an Injury for persons in his state have
a peculiar way of polishing ore of if
the chance presents itself.
There is never more drunkenness in
L-than on Christmas day not only
because 1T is day of rejoicing, but
because so many take pledges not to
drink from given time till Christmas
day So | expected to have plenty of
cases about twelve O'Clock that night,
when friendship would have had time
60 merge ipto hostility, with broken
heads rs the result
During the afternoon had cases
dropping in of various sorts But 1
was called out to visit one person,
whose state was most pitable. A female
lying on an old. dirty sack, weak aud
MI ,wu children playing about the floor
OF the squalid room. Where was your
merry Christmas for that poor mother?
Her husband dead /; she too i'll to work
phthisis hurrying her away ere the year
went out. Two shillipgs a week, for
sooth, from she parish, aud this merry
S-ll.sffssisE::as Elnatser, sssescEildFclia
will be sent to- this Industrial schools
and their another, quietly reposiug ID ID
her parish colin, will 'havo "a happy
New Year, and never fsslssorrow more.
Once more in my sitting room. The
shades of evening have deepened; the
w'nd begins to sigh round the house,
down the chimney, and through the
Leyholes; so l have the gas lit, the fire
stirred mp again, and order tea.
just as 1 was beginning my evening
meal the door opened softly. then there
was pause, as if some one was examin-
ing me through the space formed by the
hinges.
'Come in!' I cried. 81
A face appeared at the door, and the
eyes having examined the room general
ly, and me particularly, the remainder
of the body followed, and then l saw
the form of man l had twice met be-
fore.
Staring at me in a wild IN amer he said,
'How do? Don't you know me? Don't
you remember me telling you that I
should come to tea some evening? your
man down stairs wasn't going to let Inc
in; but l gave him farthing rolled up
in paper, and said was most particu.
lar friend of yours. He will think I
gave him sovereign
At this the being uttered series Of
horrid chuck les add rolled his eyes
about IN most alarming manner. ]"
The frs. time .re. The :a--s..n re
at an hotel, where he was caperiug about,
singing aud reciting, and then going
round the room with his hat for coppers.
| was told by gentleman tina. he was
harmless lunatic.
The second time met him | was hur-
ryins along on business. With the most
unfortunate want Of forethought nod
ed to him aud passed on. In second
he was by my side and, tapping me
spartly with his forefnser, cried:
'pe yoqkuow me, sa1E
Yes, l answered, smiling, and at
tempting to walk away: but preventing
me, he said:
What's my namey'
'Richey,' | said, with half frown
but his antics made me smile, for he
kept skipping about from one side of me
To the other.
You're medical man, l think, then
sid he; and have seen you go into
the Nbrtheast Dispensarv ;snow I am n