The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-09-13

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There Was q ball over at Jenkins, and of
course ] went; for / always go where
there's any fun going on, and generally
act the fool before / get away, of course.
The widow was there, dressed as fne as
Solomon's lilies, and flying around as
frisky as q young lamb in a rye patch.
Igos introduced to her and asked her to
dance with me, and when she flushed her
eyes at me and said yes I jumped up
like had set down ON q griddle. You
may talk about sensation, but when she
took hold of my hand and ] sorter
squeezed il, I felt sensation as big as o.
load of wood, and it kept running up and
down my back like o squirrel with q
hawk after him. Pm very fond Of dam
cling; but TIL be hanged if ] know
whether / enjoyed it ELat night or not,
for every time she took hold of my hand
I'd commence feeling curious behind my
ears and up and down my back again.
and then wouldn't know whether i was
on earth or in a balloon, or on. o comet,
or anything about it. It was undoubted-l
" case of love at FIRST sight, and a pow
erful bad case at that. For wonder i
got through the frolic without making!
myself conspicuous or cutting up any
extras, as I'm in the habit Of doing when
I go into public. I'd SET my pegs to 90
home with the widow s.fter tie bail, but
just as i was fixing my mouth to ask her,
up steps 9 big, long, leather faced doctor,
named Mabry, and walked her right OF
before my eyes. That riled me q little,
but I kept my tongue still, inWardly
swearing to break his boues the very first
opportunity that presented itseif. 7 SAN
there was no use In saying anything, so I
went home and went to bed, and all the
rest of the night / was dreaming about
rainbows, angels, butterflies, fddles,
widows and doctors, mixed up worse
than q Dntchman's dinner. Well,
Squire, to make a short story Of it, /
made DIP my mind to have the widow, or.
kill myself, or somebody else. Sol made
it convenient 10 be on hand where she
was, upon all occasions. couldn't eat
nor sleep nor work, and If the thing had
held on, wouldn't have had sense
enough left to skin q rabbit. But j was
determined it shouldn't last long, for I'd
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thought ] wouldn't give her time to think
of anything but me. She appeared to
take 70 me right sharply, and the doctor
seemed inclined to mix in with me, but I
didn't consider him no more than q
brush fence, for ] was so far gone j
thought she could see nobody ON earth
but me. Well, Squire, things went on
so for 'bout month, and one Sunday /
screwd up my spunck and put the ailes.
tion to her. She sorter laughed and
sorter looked one-sided, and finally told
me she couldn't give me an answer Just
then, but if I'd call at her house next
Thursday evening she'd give me final
answer. Thinks I you are mine just as
sure as there's fiddler below. When
ever a woman takes time to study she'll
say yes. Squire, don't the poets say
something ab0nt the calculation of men
and going crooked %
sMice and men, Burns says,n I an
swered.
We'll, mice and rats is nil one, and 80
Is men and fools sometimes, as j have
found out In my travels. / was so sure
she would have me Invent off and spent
all my money for fine clothes, thinking ]
would have them ready for the wedding
and ] did! /! Confonnd that widowl I,
say! Confound all Wid0ws! Thursday
evening come at last though it was a
long time about it, and over ! went
dressed into fits, and feeling as big as
Josh Raynor did when he was elected
coroner. got there about dark, and
which was not on tie bills. usS but qsI fslt as
big and as good as the rest of f,em, So I
marched in like q blind mule into q.
potato patch, and took q seat BY the fre.