The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-05-27
Vol. X.


like the shooting Of an old wound.
Been in love? Yes, / should
think | have; how else could |
have grandchildren, those people
who laugh so hearty when | laugh,
aud make me tell how old I Am u
score of times, and say how we'll
| am looking.
Been in love? | think | was
talking Of that, was not? Yes.
been in love. Well, we did love
when 1 vas Il young fellow, and
reco!ect my Alice and | recollcct
her as I loved her when she was
young, and as | love her now
l think that she could do anything
but drink and smoke or tell an un-
truth, or do ! wrong action. Her
face was a sweet oval face her
hair u very dark brown, nearly
black ; and her eyes were deep
blue, full OF merriment II one mo-
ment, aye, u. all moments except
when she heard 4 sad story or
was touched With pain for no enc
else, a"d then they grew deeper
as they filled with tears. Not for
herself. She never cried for her
self that know of, for she never
had q days illness. Bat she WAS
terribly cut up when her brother
died, and that you sec was how 1
| knew her. Her brother was my
right hand man in my company.
Many'S the time lie stood shout
der to shoulder 10 HE, good 1T
drill, good at song, good at
anything. He used TO live near
; the coast; and indeed, he Joined
rs and | was one Of his tent tvl
lows, and his chum.
Well, be knew people that |
knew, AID VIC were So II friends,
and he took me home 10 Sho~ me
Alice. lie WAS always talking
about her, and she about him and
when he was there, scarce look
did she give him. Her brother
his name was Joe, and mine too
could do everything, and was the
be.all and end-aIl of the world, l
used 10 think; and so one day |
tried to run with Joe, and Joe beat
me, and Alice laughed and then
i shot against Joe, aud he beat Tic
too, and she laughed the more
and | wrestled with him and
threw him: she didn't laugh then
but ran to sec whether he was
hurt, and said it wasn't fair for
Joe to tackle a big fellow like me,
although he was nigh an inch
taller. Ii short, coald not
please her anyhow.
Well: it was one day when we
heard that the fat. bottomcd boats
Of old Boney were not coming
over, and that the army OF Bou-
logue had melted bit by bit: away
, like snow drift, that we made Il
night of it. Aye, it was night,
too! and being hot and in sum
mer, we must nseds keep up the
fun till the sun came up over the
seacoast, looking red and sngFy at
our folly. Well Joe and |, the two
Joes, as they called US, ran down
| the beach and washed our hot faces,
and plunged into the salt waves,
! and were in q minute as fresh and
merry as two larks; after dressing,
Joe must needs take i walk with
ME, who was nothing 10th you
must know, along the ed sc Of the
cliff. The seas for centuries isd
been washing that chalk.bo
coast. and atintervals there stands
up pillars If chalk with seas
around them. The people call
such place mo Mans Land"
and no man can own it, truly.
Well, Joe come to one OF these
within . few feet, say twelve,
from the cliff, and turning to me.
said "Joc JUNIOR" said he, think
see his bright face now, II chal-
lengo you to jump on that No
Mans Land l do,"
''Joe," said !, hurriedly, "don't
be ! fool May be it would give
way At the top; and ifit didn't
how could you jump back without
Il run? You'd be stuck on the top
/ like mad sentinel or y pillar
saint. I'm not going to jump it.
But | am" said he, and before
! could stop him, if indeed had
tried, he took f. spp and jumped.
! 1t WAS SO sudden tina; I eoulI
only stand agbast when | saw
! him there. He stood, indeed, for
Il moment, and then he took 4
back step, and would have j1mpcd
tack, when l heard rumbIing
sound, and Aa!t The top Of the NO
Mans Land" parted, aud tac vhalk
and earth, Joe, too, fell down with
:: crash to the rocky coast below