The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1872-06-29
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their new faoo track .bIa sidair cd,
7o OF a, naturally yiehinghature Gas the
track was when I lefD, 4 complied II
praised their track, as they seemed to
expect should. I eulogised their en-.
trance gate-adriirod theft gate, you
know-extolled the ticket efies,L and
lavished wordsiofcco the
judges stand, That stand, ], told til EN-
could stand anything aud, T very, innos'
Gently inquired if, it could not stand
treat. ''f
Then they insisted on taking he dupop,
the judges standsbas fiastoutiy resisted
that though l finally compromised by
looking into a, little-.room- beneath the
stand called the judges room Once in
there they shut the door, and you may
not believe it, bdtaitis so-each of. til qse
young men drew a flask out Of his pock-
ct aud offered me drink .-A a 49,
1 will not repeat to you the indignant
and scathing rebuke / administered
those young men, and it is hardly
necessary for me to say l emptied their
fasks-both their flasks-right where /
stood, as n saiutary warning to. them
against trifing with the temperance
regulations Of their native town or at
tempting to lead an innocent traveller
astray. 40 l.',' 40 az
positively never hadsso many snares,
laid for me and temptations. laid before
me as | had iu that temperance town,
where they didu't sell drop. They
were a most generous and hospitabe
people, though, ind did hate to see q
stranger suffer. 'THey didn't seem to
care for themselves, but liked to have a
little within reach when traveller
came along. :.
Wearied with resisting those claudes:
tine invitations to "take suthin'," / at
last announced my desire to go to bed.
A colored man showed me up to my
room, and gsashed it there was anything
| wanted: L told him nj, He iiesita,'
ted, walked to the stove and poked the
fire; then turned his attention to the
lamp to see if that was properly trimmed
aud burning, got as far as the door, and
hcsitated again. "Woll, what do you
want, George % said +. l always call
colored man George, because more than
half of the time that is his name, aud
when it ism e he likes 30 be called
George, because the father of his adop
ted country was.
| suppose know dozen colored 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 Gcorgc?"
"oh nuthin', sar," said George, turn
ing his old soft hat on his thumb, and
leaning against the door-casing; but l
Thought '-herc his head dropped in an
embarrassed way
"Wcll, what did you think, George,
said l, cncouraginsly, supposing he
wanted little scrip to send to the
missionaries in Africa.
"If you Will 'scuse me-" replied
George, at length, giving up scratching
his shin and scratching his head, II
thought, bcin's you's stranger, heah-"
well, George, so on."
".And the license laws little clus-"
"les, jes' So
you might want little drink fore
you svcs 10 ueu. NOW, III my pocket /
jest got"
He got no further in his speech, but
he jes' got out Of tie door and down
the stairs in about TWO junIl.s, for he
saw by the excited way in which | was
paving ayound the stove that | was
look ng for the poker.