The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-04-05
MY GREAT5&UNTs WILL,
The rrIsuIa{lods. q 4 Clerk In a coun.
I: 'Sfys Ss6Fe.

sofngtihles wis" I'd been a martyr In
those days when they stretched people on
beds Of spikes or roasted thee. on o grid.
iron Then thinkI could havs taken
a littleQUWfptin-lifeF x.
This is the way Of it.: am. behind
the counter on, ttie side whore we keen
prints, and there, trots gp TO the opposite
side, where we keep fannels,. customer
neither Eoung afdr' beAutifui;~I hurry
aroupd ftid acTQsa. aud 5io asks for cali,
Goes then turn her about and make
my way back, and pull down half q
dozeA pieeeH bdE sh9 G9sE ESgzes at the
Shelves fsyg bhYd liw 70 npok at the
under piece on the top shelf; climb
up, at the risk of breaking nv neck, and
get the under piece out, and she con,
Theq ahe) )aaYsshe'd liEe to idok '4at chat
s,.ipe;" blunder on to every other
stripe before get her particular stripe.
Then she says she wants little figure,
and get all the little figures out for her.
She wants to know how much 'tis ward :
l say six cents, and she says she can get
better in Springfield for. five, and she
a6ok5 at"fii6 siispiti6u5Iy, as Sif I VAS a
cheating youth She wantst TO- know ii
it'll wash, and say / presume 80, most
calico, ddesEwadh, and Che looks at mo
HSsnaas' Thes ss sEs sEs esss snd dyPu'n
we do, and we pay % cents, and che SAYS
Sthey'Es qpying 80 atfhe other E}sg5rA; 9nd
of she goea, and put up the printa, and
am down at the fsri,er end Of The room
turnipg ;frsgments ,opt Of q cracker bar
rel, when back she comes and wants
samples.
We keep 7the-Ros..ef1ice, and,, by the
t-.fins ;geS RaolEt Ii my cracker barfef, in
comes man and wants to know if he
hasn't letter. He never had letter in
his life, and he knoys,it, yapd I know it f,
but it is one 'o7 those facts that both par
ties ignore, and I 60 and look, and give
him the copsoling assurance, that he
hhasnn,'tfany' h;n, fnd theE departs in PesSo of
Then there is lady who wants to
match q confounded bit of silk braid.
drab bordering on tho lilac. It takes me-
five minutes to find dpRe box of silk hraids,
and five more to find ~ havn't drab Dor.
dering on the lilac. Then she wants
sewing-silh the same shade, and hunt
through all the sewing. silks, and there's
drab bordering on everything else under
the sur. excepting lilac; but know by
the way her shounces' sweep out that o
mercantile house not keeping drab bor-
dering ON the lilac stands very low.
II get down to the father end OF che
store again, and there comes man to
the front door, and yelps OFT loud enough
for every customer to hear that he's
brought back chat barrel of flour; SAYS
the bread was black, and -ally dougts in
the middle. Now that man underssood.
when he had that flour, that it was infe-
Iior quality, not Iec9WWep9ed, aud hp
l.r<A 80 oh hAov> "a xNEt, "a 4 -
Fchedp. TheIp him folf {he flour in. and nd
l can see that he thinks he has circum-
vente3a villain! -At,.I-i
That's the way it goes, day after day,
week. after week, and J. hate tee, rdelest
salefathS abhor Goldfish, ,,and Rish dalico,
oottoi AGlolhs drilling, slfooks ands eyyes,
and all the rest of the wretched necessi-
ties of an artificial civilization were at
the bottom of che Indian ocean. I long
to be savage more than do to be, an
angel, and l shall be, one, of these days,
though do wear ciosh 'sl,its, and ha-s :
shaving. mug at the barben's smaeked ip
gilt Letters, S. O. Haynes. IWonder tt.t
all selffespect and sentiment Of h.;man-
'ity ,hasn't long ago periahea fnorldtIt my
bosom.
~ Such were my reflections, one one if6i if6ine
morning just after train time, while was
weighing out half pound OF. black tea,
when my fellow sufferer in the dry-gooda
and grocery infiction called, out:iiS
...here,s, O.. Lady ineuiTipg, ., for you,
In distinct outline before the door
stood little woman, hen skirts spread
y0fthe fsnSals 4{sares Ws Gsea I'd i aiaG e on n
our 9lates at school,, 7 came up to, make
my bow. and saw she had deposited o
brown willow basket on the show.c case,
and dropped black glazed bag at kei
SIDE. She wore 2 stringy kind Of shawl,
with fearfully long fringe, and seemed to
be afflicted with numb palsy. f'A
asked she.
my name is Samuel Haynes, ma'am. u
I'm m; J your. fathers aunt. 'LousezsI
I'm slade59@3o 3oa, 1Aant Jonisa."
She looked at me aharply, :as ifl I vas
making fan of her. 4 suppose it is Be,
cause the corners of my mouth turn up
people people. are aE always Tisl5Sspeetipg me o.
making fipi Of them: l.:sn III I, wish those cor.
ners i3, would sink, and wonder they don't
I'm your only, living female. relative
I>iMy business experiences WITH fefhaie:
had been SO emhi&tasing, Z Waa glad (
learn she was the only one on the fgther'i
SyiAPse youl va Ep mother; Z ffeetit'Ny
duty TO help make home for yon."
Instantly l remembered that Aunt
Louisa IVES, worth ,eeveptyifye thousand
think 4zleafned that iact id early years
M 5ReI parental, Epee,i along, iyithh wlhe
made me, aud what State j., lived in. 7
Wiz always stood to my infantiie ccn.