Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-10-31
Nnuuruus department.
WHAT Is ssTUCKING 2,

A bothered looking citizen came into our
Office few days since, and respectfully asked
to be allowed to look at the dictionary. He
sat down and rather anxiously thumbed Web.
ster awhile.
"What word are you looking forY asked
reporter, seeing that the stranger had failed
to strike the trail.
"Well," said the man in burst of conf
dence, "you see, I've only been married short
time, and my wifes gone up to Truckee on a
visit and she's written to me to look in the
bottom of her trunk for lot of 'tucking' and
send it to her. Now, want to know what
in blazes is 'tuckingF 1t amt in the diction.
ary:" -,
"Tucking" said the reporter, briskly,
"why, tucking is the stuff the girls make by
poking a sort of short turned fish hook
through hole and catching the thread and
drawing it back again"
Then the editor spoke up contemptuously,
and said that man who was 50 ignorant as
that ought to hold his tongue. What the re-
porter had described was crocheting. Every.
body ought to know what tucking was. The
ladies, in making it, used a little contrivance
shaped like mussel with thread wound up
inside of it. Tucking, he believed, could be
purchased for ten or fifteen cents a yard, and
why intelligent girls should waste whole
day in making what they could get for a
short bit was, more than he could understand.
In answer to question from the admiring re-
porter, the editor said he had been told that
tucking was used in trimming the under
garments of the fair sex, but why things should
be ornamented which fellow would get lick
ed for trying to look at-or perhaps shot
was beyond his comprehension.
The married stranger said the editor was
mistaken that the article he mentioned was
not tucking-it was tatting. This he knew
for q fact.
The editor observed that when man came
into his Office for information, the editor, when
he gave it, didn't like to be told he lied. If
the stranger wanted to avoid trouble he had
better get out and 60 to the devil. As the
editor had grown red in the face, and his eyes
were blazing, the married stranger coughed
freely and skunk down stairs.
In the meantime, what is "tucking Pre-.
no (Nev.) Gazette.
IRISH CoMPL1MENTs.-Thef following CON-
pliments were paid to Sheridan, at Norfolk,
by an Irish servant belonging to Mr. Coke,
who attended him on his shooting excursion,
and which Sheridan retold with great glee.
Shot'the 1st (the birds all getting away
"More power to your honor! Did you see
one little fellow drop bis leg as he went off?
He'll never stand on his tin toes again"
Shot I'd (ditto)-"Tare and ayers, there they
90! But didn't your honor hear the shot
rattle among them like pase agin windey ?
70 honor QvIO
this side of the country" Shot Sd (birds all
off again)-"Tuuder an GUNS, but they've
cotched tr' After watching them while
There's three wounded anyhow, for they had
hardly strength to fly over yonder hedge; the
divl wink of sleep they'll get this blessed
night" Shot 4th "a pheasant gets away
"Well, never seen poor gentleman taken
like him he'll remember your honor long
time for that. The spal peen is carrying away
more shot than would sit up an iromonger at
Skibbereen" Shot 9th "a snipe gets off,
Bother! You may cry crake, my fine fel-
low-you may take your long bill to the
old world. You'll wake tomorrow morning
with a lumbago in your soft head" Poor
Sheridan could stand this no longer, but
gave his countryman fee for his ingenuity,
and proceeded on his beat alone.
THE GooD OF A SERMoN.-"That was
good snrnon--wes ii not. that We had last
Sunday?"
"True for you, yer honor an illigant one !
1t done me power of good intirely."
"I'm glad of that. Can you tell me what
particularly struck your What was it about ?"
"Oh, we'll" scratching his head, 81 don't
rightly mot just exactly know. I-a.I. A
where's the use in telling lies? Sure I don't
remember one single 'dividual word of it, good
or bad. Sorra bit of me knows what it was
about at ALL"
"And yet you say it did you power of
good? ?"
$50 it did sir. I'll stick to that"
81 don't see how"
"Well now, yer honor, look here. There's
my shirt that the wife is after washing; and
clean and white it is, BY reason of all the
water and the soap and the starch that's
gone through it. But not drop of 'em all
water, or soap or starch, or blue has stayed
in, dye see. And that's just the same with
me and the sermon. It's run through me, yer
honor, and it's dried out of me; but all the
same, just like my Sunday shirt, I'm the better
and the cleaner after it, Chambers Journal.
PREPARED AT ALL PoINTs.-Here is
something that happened on railway train
somewhere in New England last summer.
A woman clad, in deep mourning, entered
the cars at way station. She took
seat just in front of an inquisitive, sharp
faced female. The woman in black had not
been seated long before she felt slight tap
on the shoulder, and heard her neighbor ask,
in low, sympathetic tone:
"Lost anybody"
A silent nod was the response. A slight
pause then second question:
"Child2"
A low shake of the head in the negative.
"ParentT
A similar shake.
Husband p
This time the slight nod again.
Life insured" 7"
A nod.
Experience religions'
A nod.
Then: "Well, we'll, cheer up! Life in
sured and experienced religion. You are all
right, and so'er he p
Practical REL1G1oN.-A colored Georgia
minister breaches the following practical
theology: "Breddren, my 'sperience is dat it
amt de profession of 'ligion, but de casional
practice of it dat makes man 'ceptable I'D