Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-02-06
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I Generally Gake them r1sefnthe lofty
RSsa s2s i bss sga4ss P IL assi as iafy 5y
IaSmssrous tributary streams. When
the rainy season has set in-&hch
I generally commences about the mid
die. .of May-the downpour sometimes
continues for six weeks at a time, and
these rivers oysraoYitheir banks and
flood the surrounding, country far
|andihear, forming IN maayl places
miniature seas Upon these occa-
sions hundreds Of farmers are ruined,
thousandstof Sheep ands cattle gen.
eraAy destroyed. ), and ! not unfre-
duently many valuable human lives
sacrificed.
Perhaps the district most liable to
disastrous foods,>in the whale coun
II try II is the Hunter, where, every few
years. thousands Aof acres are sub
merged with the suddenness that is
truly appalling. Houses are ire
quently buried to The chimney-tops
beneath the waters, which rapidly
form an inlandssea Of at least hun
dred miles in length by an acre i'll
breadth,
In the year 1866 I was quartered
at Windsor, little township about
twenty-five miles distant from Sgd
ney, the metropolis of the country,
and for some months | had been en-
gagged in the arduoas and by no means
romantic duty Of hunting .fpr Illicit
stills, of which it was supposed there
were several in the .neighborhood.
/ certainly did my best to discover
Neutrality-suspicious., butfwas complete
ly unsuccessful, and after traversing
the country day after day, in every
kind of disguise. until | must have
travelled hundreds OF miles, 1 at last
gave the matter up as a bad job.
II I had not found still, however,
I had in the course Of. my wander
ings discovered what gave me a far
greater delight, for l had fallen across
one Of the prettiest and most Iowa
BILE little girls that all Australian or
any other sun ever had the honor Of
shining upon, and Nhatwass better,
L had SO ingratiated myself in her
good graces as to win her promise
that she would never marry any one
but me.
Our acquaintance had commenced
in a romantic manner enough. f'had
rescued her from a wild cow, who
would Certainly have gored her had
l not interposed and shot the brute.
She was too frightened to walk home
and so I accompanied her, was in
troduced to her parents as matter
of course, and they were profuse in
theif' thaiiks,fahdi begged me hence
forth to look upon their house as my
home, and so forth.
1 promptly took them; at their
word, and every other evening, and
sometimes even, ofgener, my charger
&odid be Comfortably stalled for hours
in farmer Martins stable and. mean
while, the pretty Gertrude and my
self would be either wandering by
the rivers bank, studying poetry to-
gether in the old sdmfner-ho or
as. the cold weather, drew on. play.
1bhg cdess,h the saag little bedk par.
lor. .,.1 r,;,.i
These things continued until the
(raihk seaspa set iht,; bat Tsstead io5
being deferred by the steady down
pouys, my visits became if possible
more frequent, and through the eslushy
lowlands, where the water was otter
above my horses. knee, ! nightly jog
ged, like a marine centaur, to visit
my Bs ses%sf5ys asa y The sshsrs suspicion.
were aroused. Could it be possible
a mounted trooper, wearing Englisl
uniform, would ride nightly through
mud and rain, and thunder and hight
ming, hail and wind, to drink a glass
of grog and smoke apipe with an olt
man Of sixty? Common sense an
swered "No," and having a fair stool
of that commodity, 80 also said Far
rner Martin. 1.-The girl he's after
and it's time to put stop to his non
I sense was the conclusion he arriv
ed at.
\ rf7Ands5 The vefy next evening
!. fodsao1ef;; befofes Gertrude and
could finish our third game Of chess
lar. MARIN put his head into tn
| room and said, in dry, dignife'
FA'9i Hem 81 f5si Gould t speak with you
!, dsg R3.s is|aass' s II At -'Ast front p'''''' MI
II think / knew what was coming
and. so did Gertrude, for she grew
Every pale dad aIpsteta the chessboar'
in her agitation, SO that kings, queens
bishops, knights and all the smalle
fry vent rolling over the room.
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