Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1879-08-28
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blackberry pie, bully doughnuts, GIN
!. anon taffy, and gingerbeerl"
AS soon as he d hollered this, Lem
I on Drops was awful scared and RAJ
off as fast as his legs'd carry him
apd his patty pan flew up when h,
: LEI go CT it and smashed a pane o
glass. But Ned hauled it in quick
before the teacher got there, and Mr.
Merit thinks to this day that some
rude boy, "out of malicious mis-
chief that's what he called it
threw a stone and broke the window
and made up new Cardinal VOL.
sey's dying speech.
And now I'm coming to the loco
motive. I'd been there before only
1 thought you fellows here in Wood
bury would like to hear something
about us fellows in Greenville, and
that's the reason I stopped on the
way.
Well, the glorious Fourth was near
and the Nimble Squirrels had been
saying like everything so as to have
plenty of fireworks and big new
flag, we had lots of small ones, and
Capt. Edward Morningstar had been
busy on an invention that was to go
ahead-and you bet it did go ahead
of anything he'd ever in Vented be-
fore, and it was to make its trial trip
at 2 p. M, July the Fourth, on I'm
Gle Jeff's green-we'd asked him on
slate and he'd said "Yes," and the
Kangaroos wasn't to know anything
about it for fear they'd stand outside
and hoot. And if they had stood
outside and hooted the Nimblo Squir-
rels would have had to lick EN-, and
that wouldn't have been a nice way
Of spending The anniversary of the
birthday Of American independence"
That's from DR.. Mudge's speech.
They say Mrs. Nudge wrote it for
him..
At last the day came and after
we'd had our DINER and let of a
few frecracker' and torpedoes just
to get our hands in, we met on the
green. We'd sent the drum and
flags and fireworks down there the
day before. And Uncle JEFF, he was
alone-the old man and woman had
gone to their daughter sand he
says, speaking in voice like bears
voice wrapped up i'll handkerchief:
' Boys, don't you hurt that young
tree" pointing to a little tree near
The gate. "That tree is very valua-
bic and was sent to me from France
and don't 60 near the chicken coop,
Ior Z nave sUHe.-ver.y--- y---'sHc---is-rsa4~'ii :
fowls that amt quite used 10 the
place yet.
We all shook our heads as though
we'd shake them off in sign we
and then he went away
and sat down under an old aprlc-tree
and lighted his pipe and began to
read the newspaper.
In few moments Ned Morning
star and Roy Wheeler came putting
up the road, wheeling something in a
II was all covered
over with brown paper, but the MINI
bic Squirrels soon tore that off and
there was locomotive. "The Ned
Morningstar Locomotive" was paint
I'd on the flag which floated from it.
1t was queer-looking thing
looked as though it might have been
made out of an old iron furnace, some
tomato cans, two or three pokers and
a piece of stove-pipe. There was
double car behind it, soap-box cut
in two and then nailed together again
lengthways, and in this car was
lozen packs Of firecrackers.
Will she go?' l asked the cap
tain. go? ?" said he. 4" | guess you'll
think so in a minute. A, tention
The file is now started,
the 6recrackers are lit, and when
say ready, be at the drum, wave the
flags, send off some blue lights, and
yell like wild Indians. Ready"
Rub.a-lub dub" went the drum
g fz.zz" went the blue ligllts-bang
went the frecrackers. " Hurrah ?
yelled the boys, and of started the
Ned Morningstar locomotive. Straight
INTO the valuable young tree from
France she w.nt first, knocking it
flat; then over the finest game roos-
Ter, who had run out, thinking there
was fight, smashing him flat; then
under the chair on which Uncle
Jeff. was sitting, taking the legs clean
off, and making the old man sit down
hard on the back of his head, with
his legs kicking wildly in the air,
and then through the kitchen WIN
low on to the kitchen floor, where
she exploded with noise like $50
cannon.
We boys started to run away, when
the captain called out, =" Nlmble
Squirrels, don't be towards; come
back and face the music like men,
And we all cane back 'cept little