Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-05-13
Antuurulls Repartnleut.
A BIG MISTAKE,

them as follows:
The other evening he called upon Mrs.
Haddon She had just lost her husband, and
she naturally supposed his visit relative to the
sad occurrence So after few common
places had been exchanged, she was not at all
surprised to hear him remark:
"It was a sad bereavement, was it not, Mrs.
Haddon ?"
"Yes," faltered the widow.
Totally unexpected"
"Oh! yes, never dreamed of it."
"He died in the barn, suppose"
20, no. in the house."
"Oh-well Isuppose you must have thought
good deal of him?"
"Of course, sir"-this with vim.
The minister looked surprised, crossed his
legs and renewed the conversation.
"Blind staggers was the disease, believe" !"
he said.
"No, sir" snapped the widow, "Apoplexy."
"Indeed, you must have fed him too much. r"
"He was quite capable of feeding himself,
sir"
Very intelligent, he must have been died
hard, didn't he ?"
"He did,"
"You had to hit him on the head with an
axe to put him out of his misery, am told ?"
"Whoever told you so did not speak the
truth" she haughtiy uttered. "James died
naturally"
"Yes, continued the minister, in slightly
'perplexed tone, "he kicked the side of the
barn down in his last agonies, did he not ?"
"No, sir, be didn't"
"Well have been misinformed, suppose.
H. old rros bo
"Thirty-6ve."
"Then he did not do much active work.
Perhaps you are better without him, for you
can easily supply his place with better
one?"
"Never, sir-never will see as good one
as he"
"Oh! yes, you will he had the heaves bad,
you know.
Nothing of the kind"
"Why, / recollect saw him, one day with
you on his back, and I distinctly recollect
that he had the string halt"
Mrs. Haddon stared at her reverend visit
or as if she imagined that he was crazy.
ale never could have the string halt, for
he had cork leg" said she.
"a cork leg g!-remarkable. But really,
now; didn't he have dangerous trick of
stopping suddenly and kicking wagon all
to pieces?'
"Never, sir he was not a madman?"
"Probably not. But there were some good
points about him ?"
II shoul Id think So
"The way in which he carried his ears, for
example?"
Nobody else ever noticed that "particular
merit" said the widow with much asperity,
"he was warm hearted, generous and kind"
"Good qualities" answered he unconscious.
ly "How long did it take him to 60 mile p
about fifteen minutes
"Not much of a goer. Wasn't his hair apt
to Ay?"
"He didn't have any hair; he was bald.
headed
"Quite a curiosity!'
"No, sir; no more of curiosity than you
are"
The minister shifted uneasily and got red
in the face, but he returned to the attack.
did you have to use the whip much on
him ?'
Never, sir
"Went right along without it eh?"
"Yes."
"He must have been a good sort of a
brute?"
Mrs. Haddon turned white, but made no
reply.
The minister did not know what to say, but
finally blurted out.
What l most admire about him was the
beautiful waggle of his tail"
The widow sat down and cried.
The idea of your coming here and insult
ing me she sobbed. If my husband had lived
you woudn'ta done it. Your remarks in
reference to that poor dead man have been a
series of insults. l won't stand it.
He colored and looked dumb founded.
"Ain't you Mrs. Blinkers?" at last he
stammered, "and has not your old gray horse
died."
81 never owned horse but my husband
died about week ago.
Ten minutes later the minister came out of
that house with the reddest face ever seen on
mortal man. And to think he groaned, as
he strobe home, that 81 was talking horse to
that woman, and she was talking husband"
AN EcHo.-Some years ago very fine
echo was discovered on an Englishman's es-
tdle Ile was pIouu VI IL, VI CouTbe, duu eA
cited considerable envy by its exhibition. A
neighbor. who owned an adjoining estate, felt
especially chagrined, but was greatly encour.
aged by an Irishman who went over the lands
with the hope of finding one elsewhere He
declared himself successful in finding the most
wonderful echo ever heard, and he stood
ready to unfold his secret for large sum of
money. The nobleman listened to the echo,
and, although there was something peculiar
about the echo, he paid his money. An after
noon was set for his friends to come and listen
to the marvellous discovery.
"Hullo" cried, in stentorian tones, the
Hibernian who had promised to find an echo
"Hullo" came back from the hillside yon.
der.
"How are you yelled one of the company,
and an echo answered, in suspiciously differ
ent key
Chow are you?"
All went we'll, until just before retiring, one
of the company, putting his hands to his
mouth, cried:
"Will you have some whisky?"
Such question would discover the charac-
ter of any reasonable echo. 1t was certainly
too much for the one which had been found
on that estate. Judge of the surprise of the
party, when the answer came back in clear,
affirmative tones:
Thank you, surr, will, if you please"
The poor fellow, who had been stationed at
q distance tn sunn1y the nlace of an echo