Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-09-10
IS u, y sep BE r 1874.

who ate it in O neigh boring board yard. s
and gave three times three for the au-
thor OF the feast. An attempt to alter
the figpres In the book Jailed. however.
and tho youthful fnancier received ,a
large dose OF strap oil, as q criratiye for
his smart neas. Tie colonel 5Yi.s liEe-
wise fond of % gun, isti q as Ills atfiorfad
one, 81 whieh the old gent tlefisIi prized yery
JnlghIy, Richard md ihiB Dfotfieri tool ii
oution the hill to shoots cliippies' ON
an average three times,a week, Richard
taking the. weapon apart and ramfning
the stock up the back of his coat, while
his brother carried the barrel in one OF
his trousers legs, 60 rs to get it out
OF the house, unseen. They managed
the ramrod by tying q string to it and
making awhip of it until sheJ got cut
of sight. They had lots of fun,s with
the gun until the brother tried to shoot
the ramrod out one day, when It kicked
him over, and knocked both hammers
to full cock Richard didn't SEA his
brother for over five minutes, and then
had. to carry him home. There was
no more shooting of "chippies.' .
The most important transaction Of
that period of the colonel's existence
was the clandestine carrying away and
pawning OF the old gentleman's watch
"a venerable time-piece which had been
lying unseen in n bureau drawer for
over five years. Richard very reason
ably thought the watch was Completely
forgotten by that time, and that he had
made q very judicious disposition of &c.
But the very next Sunday. as iIl-luok
would have it, the old gentleman. on
dressing himself to go to q dinner-par.
ty, said to his good wife, Well. i
guess Eli wear my watch to-day" and
fruitless search being made for the
chronometer. Richard fled the spot and
played "hookey" both from school and
home for the next six weeks.
1t has been mentioned that the colo
mel was fond OF the canal. So he was.
and jolly lot of trouble it used to get
him into, too. He was going home
from "school" one day with his shoes
In his hand, when il suddenly occurred
to him to make boat of one of the
pedal coverings, and straight into the
look it went. Then the other bows
commenced to "waft" it to. the. other
end. of tho lock by throwing stones,
etc., at it, and the result was that the
ship went hopelessly down. Richard
trembled at the thought, OF going home
with one shoe. It would be known that
he played trunnt. and n good stout
stick would nwait him. Various expe-
dienta were thought of and suggested
rs q means of getting him ont of the
Hcrape. but they were all failures. The
last one was to induce o shoemaker in
ttheaIlei hbeThoo Cd; to mako mate for
the shoe inside of an hour, and for the
handsome remuneration of two cents,
but Richard was astonished to learn
from the artist that it could not be done
in, that brief space os time, and partic-
ularly for that sum of money. The on
ly thing remaining was to hook shoe
belonging to o mill-hand, which was
about five times as large as the other.
Tha disparity in size was discovered the
very first thing on his entering the
house; the mill-hand came, making a
terrible fuss about the larceny of his
shoe. Richard was in disgrace again,
and had to flee once more to the noun
tains. And "sich," as Sairy Camp
would say, "sich is boys Cincinnati
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