The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1872-04-06
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surgeon to the institution, which had
not bssn removed from over tEer ohiin-
keyboard. But the grim old patriarch
seemed to MoS my discomfort SO much
that started up Ia disgust and once
more sought the window. Here they 60,
the merry crowd, laughing and chatter
ing, although every nose was in danger
of frostbite. 4
-Four wedding coaches dashed past,
lest they be late for the church, but I
also saw ono which went slowly along,
and it recalled the lines of very sen.:=
mental friend, who oaco wrote an "Ode,
to Christmas :" .,
!. EThe wedding coach was busy, 81
And tho hearse was busy, too" ,,
L was about to moralize on this point,
wh9uN NthesPorter,- inhis Sunday
suit, bocsea, to5say there Wis case in
the ssrsseyi 81 TsSt daua to fnd a.
vino requested a 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 one off 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 I expected to have plenty Of
cases about twelve O'Clock that night,
when friendship would have had time
to merge iYto hostility, with broken
heads rs the result
During the afternoon had cases
dropping in of various sorts But l
wns called out to visit one person,
whose state was most pitiable. A female
lying on an old, dirty sack, weak aud
ill twU children playing about the floor r.
Of the squalid room. Where was your
merry Christmas for that poor mother?
Her husband dead she too i'll to work
phthisis hurryiug her away ere the year
went out. Two shillings a week, for !
sooth, from the parish, and this q smerry
silaSsssy tie sghiIdFodA
will bSsSne To- yhg Industrial schools Z
and thsir lno.lIeT qdiesly reposiug id
her p@isb SgsfHn yin thau "a happy
New &45 sdd.baESr Ssslisorrow more.
Once more in my sitting-room. The
s''ades of evening have deepeued; the
wiad begins to sigh round the house,
down the chimney, and through the
Leyholes; so I have the gas lit, the fire
stirred mp again, aud order tea.
Just as I 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 inv I cried. -
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 | saw
the form of u man I had twice met be-
fore. ls
Staring at me in 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 me
in; but l gave him farthins rolled up
in paper, and said l was most particu.
lar friend of yours. he will think L
gave him sovereign
At this the being uttered series Of
horyid pbqckRS add rolled his e. yes
about 10 most afaruiiifnig manner. 'S
The first time met this person was
at an hotel, where he was capering about,
singing aud reciting, and then going
round the room with his hat for coppers.
4 ~as toid oy gentleman thai he was n
harmless lunatic.
The second time met bin l was hur-
rying along on business. With the most
unfortunate want of forethought 1 nod
ed to him and passed on. In second
he was by my side and, tapping me
spartly with his fore6nger, cried:
tpQ yoSkpow me- sitDH
YES l answered, smiling, and at
tempting to walk away: but preventing
me, he said
whats my name?'
.Rchey, | 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, | think, then
said he; and | have seen Won po inko