The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1872-06-29
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their new face track. bIa zidgi1 adj
Of naturally yelling nature Gas the
track was when I lefD, ! complied, II
praised their track, as they seemed to
expect should. I eulogised their en-.
trance gate-adtnirod' theft gate, you
know-extolled the ticket effiee,,L and
lavished INSTRUMENTATION soh the
judges stand. That stand, I,told til EN-
could stand anything and I very, inno.
Gently inquired if it could not stand
treat. i'i
Then they insisted on taking he upon
the judges staudFbu f:sstoutiy resisted
that though finally compromised by
looking into little-room- beneath the
stand called the judges room. Once in
there they shut the door, and-you may
not believe it, bat it is so-each of.tfiqse
young men drew flask Out of his pock-
ct and offered me drink. j.
will not repeat to you the indignant
and scathing rcbuke / Administered
those young men, aud it is hardly
necessary for me to sag enptied their
flasks-bo,h their fasks-right where
stood, as salutary warning to them
against trihing with the temperance
| regulations of their native town or at
tempting to lead an innocent traveller
astray. .Ui 30 ,4
positively never had SO many snares
laid for me and temptations. laid before
me as | had in that temperance town,
where they didu't sell a drop. They
were most generous and hospitable
people, though, and did hate to see a
stranger suffer. THey didn't seem to
care for themselves, but Ii ked to have
little within reach when a traveller
came along. :.
Wearied with resisting those clandes-
tine invitations to "takc suthn'," l at
last announced MY desire to go to bed.
y colored man showed me up to my
room, and asked if there was anything
| wanted told him no He iiesi IL
ted, walked to the stove and poked the
fire; then turned his attention to the
lamp to see If that was properly trimmed
and burning, GOT as far as the door, and
hcsitated again. "Well, what do you
want, George said +. 1 always call "a
.nlnr.l ,,,r 4, I,y.,,.,,, l,,,,,.,. -. - 4,
hall Of the time that is his name, and
when it ism t he likes 30 be called
George, because the father Of his adop
ted country was.
suppose know dozen coored men
whose names were originally Peter, or
julius Caesar, or Eplrraminodas, who
have gone and got their names changed
to George because they liked to hear me
call them George so we'll
"What do you want Gcorge?"
"oh nuthin' sar," said George, turn
ing his old soft hat on his thumb, and
leaning against the door-casing; but
thought'-here his head dropped in an
embarrassed way.
"Well, what did you think, George,
said l, cncouragingIy, supposing he
wanted little scrip to send to the
missionaries in Africa.
"lf you wils 'scuse me-" replied
George, at length, giving up scratching
his shin and scra,cbing his head, 81
thought, bcin's you's stranger, heah-"
Well, George, so on
"And the license laws little clus-v
"lcs, jes' So
"lou might want little drink fore
you goes to bed Now, in my pocket |
jest got
He got no further in his spcech but
he jes' got out of tie door and down
the stairs in about two JUMPS, for he
saw by the excited way in which | was
paving ayopnd the stove that was
looking for the poker