Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-10-10

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nv respects to the man with the red eye, he
smiled little and remarked patronizingly:
you're a pretty sharp young man: 1t
takes middling keen boy to outwit u.s."
Permit me to sympathize with you in your
sorrow at the loss of your dear brother, just
little," [ replied.
WORKING BOTH WAYS.
When Horatio Flipper and his bosom
friend, Josiah Clemmens, on the same day, in
the same church, married Augusta Lawton
and her dearest friend, Anathusia Meakim, q
contract was made between the two couples
contract entirely independent of that which
in the eye of the law they had made wheD
each answered II, will" in reply to the some
what inquisitive question put by the clergy
man in regard to their future intentions as TO
supporting, loving, and honoring each other.
1t was this They bound themselves that if
one family had son and the other daugh-
ter, that son and daughter, when they arrived
at proper age, should become man and wife.
There was nothing 80 novel or original in
such an agreement; if there had been, the
parties to the contract never would have
made it, for they were neither novel or origi-
nal in any thing-they were simply maudlln
with romance, and this covenant was merely
the effect of which strict attention to now
els, love tales and plays was the cause.
So much by way of prologue. Now for
our story.
Flipper and Clemmens had died full of
years and gout and rheumatism, and left each
a large fortune to his wife. They had each
left, as we'll a child-Flippers daug ghter
named Kitty Clemens son named Richard,
otherwise Dick. The old men had forgotten,
long before their deaths, all about their agree.
ment on their wedding. day, but not 30 with
the mothers. They had been in corresPon-
dence for the last FIVE years about nothing
else. The children had now reached their
majority, and their mothers were anxious tor
the consummation of the plan.
Mother" said Dick, at the breakfast ta'
BILE, "there is no use in urging that girl Kitty s
suit, for will never marry her."
"How do you know, my son? You have
not seen her for twelve years, and you
might be delighted with her. returned Mrs.
Clemmens, coaxingly.
Il know shouldn't" Dick said. "She was
red.headed abomination when she was q
child and I'm certain she's the same now"
90, Richard"
"Even if she was as handsome as Hebe, |
wouldn't marry her. I'd feel disgusted the
moment met her, and so would she, if she
had any sense. We'd be introduced, we'd
look at each other, and say to ourselves, And
this is the person I've got to marry, and then
we would hate each other"
"Well, it seems to me, Dick, that you
might as we'll wait until you do see each other,
before you make up your mind. This ls too
bad" whined Mrs. Clemmens, wiping her eyes
with napkin, and not discovering her mis-
take until she had rubbed some mustard into
her blue orbs, which occasioned the use of her
handkerchief in good earnest-just when |
thought had such good news for you"
"What is the news"
"She's coming here"
"Who, Kitty Flipper2'
eyes. l received letter this morning
from her mother saying Kitty would start in
day or two"
"0h, my~ groaned Dick. "You must
stop her." he said, seriously. 1T she comes,
20. I know what she'll be; little stuck-up
mink, full of the French airs she acquired BY
studying abroad for twelve years. She'll say,
Mon Dieu,' and ma fol, and she'll talk about
her naivete and her gaacherie and her chic;
she'll speak bad French in the present tense,
indicative mood, of the first conjugation, and
she'll commence all her questions with 'Esker,'
and then stick like the young man in the We
neerings' party. 1 shall not see her, that's set-
tied. Write to Mrs. FJipper (mellifuous az.
pellation y and say we are going on visit,
and we don't know when we will return |;
or better, 90 to town, see Mrs. F., explain
openly that will never marry Frenchi6ed
wax.doll, but that want wife who knows
how to keep house in order, can cook, pre-
serve, sew, sweep, bake, darn, mend, dust, and,
as the advertisement says, make herself gen.
orally useful. In short, woman like my re-
spected ma and, 80 that you may kill two
birds with one stone, find cook who can
cook, and fetch her back with you"
An idea seemed to strike Mrs. Cemmens,
and she answered, gaily, "Well, Dick, every
thing is for the best. If you won't marry
her, you won't, so I'll do as you say"
After breakfast she made hurried toilet,
and took the first train for the city. To.
ward evening she returned with as pretty a
little piece of femininity as Dick had ever
seen withal. The dainty, curly-headed little
woman went straightway to the kitchen,
and then Mrs. Clemmens informed her son
that she had made matters all right with Mrs.
Flipper, and that the pretty conglomeration
of muslin, curls, pink and white was a new
cook she had engaged.
"Ah" cries the intelligent reader, "you
can't deceive US; the pink and white little
cook is Kitty Flipper, and the three women
have formed plan to catch Dick unawares."
And the intelligent readers are correct, but we
VOW and declare that we never had any intea-
tion of shrouding the dear girl in mystery and
practicing deception. If we had-but this
is egotism, and we digress. With the ad.
vent of the new cook, came luxuries such as
had never been seen on the Clemmens' table
before. The cuisine Gas Dicks Kitty Flip
per might say) was perfect. Richards stock
ings were mended 50 neatly that an old pair
of socks we're better than a new pair. His
shirts, too, were washed and ironed so per-
fectly that their whiteness and gloss caused
envy in the bosoms of his male friends.
But another change had been effected by
the cook The pink, and-white young lady,
whom the hottest fire never made red and
white, was accustomed to take seat in the
sitting room in the evening and attend to her
sewing-tbe kitchen being locked up-to save
gas, Mrs. G. said, and Dick remained home at
nights, something unusual for him.
In fact, Dick was in love with the COOK,
and he found hundred excuses day to 60
to the kitchen aud have word or two with
the curly. y.headed little woman.
At first she was very cold to him, but grad
ually, as she saw his respect increase with his