The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1873-05-31
SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 81, 1873.


sm, said jack, 'nor hntutihin' else like
t'other folks
But you shall he, and there's the end
of it,, and forthwi Miss Suittle became
unusually vigorous in her devotional
instructions, and made tho luckless ras.
cal pray for his soul as though under
sentence of immediate DEATH
One day it was so pleasantly warm,
and the bright sunshine looked SO in-
viting to the eye of theali martyr,
that he could scarcely keep them from
off the window The snow was gone of
the ground and the spring feeling was
asserting itself strongly in the bosom of
the child
Suittle didn't think OF all this and
while Jack was mentally wishing he had
been born bird, or even chicken,
aud could not resist pushing up the
window nearest him, she arranged his
clerical garb, and ordered him to pro.
ceed with the lessons of the day.
She did not see the urchins drawing
near the open gate, or know that as
many as could get there were STOPPING
under the window, hearing all that was
going on. Jack did, and hated himself
for the plight he was in. lie could not
tell her of his audience, for she would
then believe he had planned the meet.
ing; nor could he avoid the duty she
forced him to periorm.3 With hitter
feeling in his heart he was compelled to
mount tho stUul, rest dne hand on the
piano-pulpit, point tho other heaven
ward, give ut the hymn and then hear
hcr sing, in monotonous drawl. the
lines he had been taughdto read.
The youngsters outside could stand it
no longer. They gave a Wild whoop and
yell, aud ran in every direction one or
two Of the most hardened ones going SO
lar as TO stick their heads in the door,
aud :.sk if pafson Gum Tss to hum.
Jack sprang out of the window as she
rushed to the door ndd, with surplice,
gown aud cap, went lying down til,
main street -cf',hs@yi Age, followed by
all OF the boys, shouting at the top of
their lungs. AS fast as his legs could
take him he hurried along, surprising
everybody, but soaring nobody half as
much rs himself
It's Snittlc's boy was the cry.
No, faint; it's her 4 mcn'' shouted
butcher boy, who was passing just
then ; aud the news few from mouth to
mouth, until half the town WIS out Oh
the sidewalk, lau hing over the occur.
renee. Even Parson Gum himself saw
the curious spectacle, and rush ID from
the street to hide the laughter he could
not suppress
It's Sni,tlc's Dominic ' shouted the
nischevous children as he passed
Dominic it, Pony, anI don't muddy
your night gown" screamed little
news girls, who Joined in the race.
Hold on to your mansard, Squinty,
when you go under ther awning, yelled
boot black, whose brushes had been
kicked iuto the gutter in the scramble.
SO away they all went, cl-mcll, and
poor Jack, utterly exhausted, ran along,
obliged, to hear it all, anl M ,st heartily
wishing himself back at the asylum
again. But he was followed by such an
army of gdmi"s, that he was glad to
escape into store and divest himself of
his uncomfortable adornmcnts.
It's my preachin' clothes, sir, he,
said to the merchant, who stood laugh
ing immodcrately beside him, 'but
can t take EN- back to Miss Snittlc's. I
guess III 60 to work ut something else.
And so he did, there aud then, and
with Miss Suittle's consent, it is bclicv
ed, for she was never afterwards heard
to alludc in any manner to her unhappy
experience with her proteSc. or to in
quire after his subsequent fate.
Feet VS.. Feeling.--s'Brea I'm n