Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-08-08
CHAPTER XIV
LITTLE TRIP PRoPo5ED-POETRY AND SOL
EMN PROSE.

EMN PROSE.
The mountains holier visions bring
Than e'er in wales arise,
AS brightest sunshine bathes the wing
That's nearest to the skies.
MRS. HALE.
Poetry is itself thing of God.-BAILEY.
Death. thou art infinite its Life is little.
BAILEY
The threads of a story will run so smoothly
for time it causes sigh when all cannot bf
carried together but some must be dropped
to be taken up afterward. So few of ours
however, have slipped from our fingers, il
will be but slight task to gather them uE
and bring them out smooth and even.
Events have gone so happily and smoothly
at Mr.. Ellison's and our good friend Wright's
that it was not necessary to bring them for
ward with prominence; but after the crops
we're gathered and the busy season was moi
hurrying every one, Mr.. Wright prepared te
carry out plan long cherished by Albert
and Henry. He carried Stuart an invitation
to join them, which nearly turned his head
he was so anxious to accept it. y"
"Do say yes, father! Do give your consent,
cried he, running in with the eagerness Of
child of six, rather than the manner of
youth, who for week had been boasting he
was "now going in sixteen"
"What is it? I can't promise to say yes
without knowing what you wish" replied
Mr.. Elliott.
"He'll tell you;" and Stuart stepped back
and pointed to Mr.. Wright, as his cheerful
face appeared in the door.
The greetings were soon over, and Mr.
Wright opened bis errand.
II am going up the country with Albert
and Henry, for three or four weeks ramble
and the boys are very anxious for Stuart to
accompany us, so have brought an invitation
in their name."
"What is the object of your trip?" asked
Mr.. Elliott.
"To see and learn something new. The
boys have neve2 been any where away from
the low country since they were old enough
to remember, and I want to show them some
thing different. They are growing so fast, ii
is time they learned from their own observa
ton that there is more in the world than
Charleston city and Combahee plantations
and few days among the mountains will
give them lessons and ideas not to be learned
from books or verbal descriptions. They are
wide awake about the journey"
"How are you going, and to what particular
placer And Stuart began to fear his fathers
questioning was prelude to refusal when
he should find how the jaunt was to be con-
Quoted.
eve shall take the railroad from Charles.
ton to the nearest point in the mountains, and
when the cars stop we are to take it afoot
knapsack on our backs, like soldiers. I'll
promise to take good care of Stuart, the same
as do of my boys, and I'll engage he comes
back all right"
"Please, father, don'ts say nc" said Stuart SO
entreatingly, Mr.. Elliott shirked the RESPONSE
bility Of deciding by saying-"If you can get
your mothers consent, I don't know but you
may CO."
Stuart threw his arms around his mothers
neck, and with his face against hers, bis
"Please, mother mother" reminded her
of the time when he was little child, and
not as now, tall, manly youth.
Taking one of the hands, which more than
covered hers, she said-"If it was not so late
in the season I should not hesitate; but it is so
cold and disagreeable in the mountains by
this time of the year, that am afraid to say
yes"
81 am not afraid of the cold. I can dress
warm. Henry Wright is going, and he is
younger than l." Stuarts heart was in his
mouth, and he clasped his mother still closer
before he released her neck and walked
to the window. He had never desired any
thing more strongly.
81 know" said Mr.. Wright, "this is not as
good time as summer; but I am too busy
then, and can't afford to lose the time. We
shall not try to climb mountains and under,
take great feats during storms and bad wealth
er; but we can look at them, visit many
points of interest, and learn something not to
be known by staying at home"
"What outfit will Stuart need"
"I may 60, then?" And on the strength OF
his mothers smile, Stuart was out of the room
and down the steps with happy shout.
"I like to see ardor, enthusiasm and life in
a boy" said Mr. Wright. "I wish children
to be intelligent, but not old for their age
AS to an outfit, little is needed. A suit OF
thick, warm clothes, strong shoes, a few extra
underclothes and a notebook. A little money
for necessary expenses-none for wasteful
extravaganza"
"a gun I shall need gun, shan't p
suggested Stuart, who had returned little
more quietly than he went out.
eve shall have one along, and that will be
enough, as the trip is more for instruction than
amusement"
A few minutes afterward, while Mrs. Elliott,
her husband and Mr.. Wright, were still talk
ing of the little journey and its aim, Grace
entered. Holding out both her hands, she
said-"What stranger you are! You have
not been in the house before for months. If
it was not for glimpse of you Sundays, I
should never know you we're in the neigh
borhood."
"I've been too busy all the year to 60 any
where; and since Ellen was married, you
can't pass her door-or you haven't, when
I've been home-for long time"
"No haven't; for the servant question
had to receive 30 much attention from my
hands"-she turned them over with little