Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-05-12
4n1uaruns department.
"HERE SHE GOES, THERE SHE GOES

Ynlanrbl1s department.
"HERE SHE GOES, THERE SHE GOES"
The following amusing and we'll told story
was published, for the first time, in one of
the city papers of Gotham, some fifteen years
ago. A day or two since, we fell in with a
gentleman who took pains to oacquaint himself
personally with the facts at the time of their
occurrence, and who vouches for the truth
fulness of the subjoned narrative:
Not long since two stylish-looking persons
put up for the night in the upper part of the
city. On the morrow. after ordering their
bill, they sent for the landlord, who was not
long in waiting upon his aristocratic guests.
II wish to purchase that old clock up stairs
will you sell it?' asked the elder, while the
younger cast his eyes over the columns of a
newspaper which lay upon the table. The
landlord, who had set no great value upon
the clock, except as an heirloom. began to
suspect it might possess the virtue Of Hey
woods chair, all filled with coin-and almost
involuntarily the three ascended to the room
which contained it.
"The fact is," said the elder, ~ once won
twenty dollars with clock like that"
Twenty dollars |" calculated the landlord.
"Yes. You see there was one like it in a
I room down in Essex, and fellow bet me he
could keep his fore-6nger swinging with the
pendulum for an hour, only saying, "Here
she goes, there she goes" He couldn't do
it. | walked the money out of him in no
time!
"You did," You couldn't walk it out of
me. "Ill bet ten dollars I can do it on the
spot"
"Done p cried the stranger.
The clock struck eight, and with his back
to the table and door, the landlord popped
into chair.
Here she goes, there she goes!' and his
finger waved g curve, his eyes fully fixed on
the pendulum. The fellow interrupted with
"Where is the money? Plank the mon
eyw
The landlord was not to lose in that way
His fore.6nger slowly and surely went with
the pendulum, and his left hand dsengage3
his purse from his pocket, which he threw be-
hind him on the table, All was silent
The dapper man at length exclaimed:
"Shall I deposit the money in the hands oi
the waiter ?"
"Here she goes, there she goes !" was the
only answer.
One of the wags left the room. He heard
turbed by that trick.
Presently the waiter entered, and touch
ing him upon the shoulder, asked
"Mr. B, are you crazy? What are
you doing?"
"Here she goes, there she goes I" he re
sponded, his hand and fore.6nger waving a:
before.
The waiter rushed down stairs, called one
of the neighbors, and invited him up to SEE
his master. They ascended, and the neigh
Dor seizing him gently by the shoulder, in
an imploring voice, said
"Mr. B., do not sit here. Come, &C
down stairs; what can possibly possess you to
be sitting here p
Here she goes, there she goes" was the
only reply, and the solemn face and the slow
ly moving finger settled the matter.
"He is mad" replied the friend, 1--WE must
60 for doctor"
The landlord was not to be duped he wa,
not to be deceived, though the whole town
came to interrupt him.
"You had better call up his wife," added
the friend.
"Here she goes, there she goes! repeated
the landlord, and still the hand moved on.
In moment, his wife entered, full of ago
ny of soul.
"My DEAR" she kindly said, "look on me
it is your wife who speaks!"
Here she goes, there she goes his hand
l,,k r,;c Srsf
she would stay, and he thought she was de-
terpined to conspre against him, and make
him lose the wager. She wept as she con-
tinued-
What cause have you for this Why dc
you do sol Has your wife" --
Here she goes, there she goes !" and his
finger seemed to be tracing its airy progress
for anything she could ascertain to the con-
trary.
"My DEAR" she still continued, thinking
that the thought of his child, whom he fond.
ly loved, would tend to restore him, "shall
call up your daughter ?"
Here she goes, there she goes !" the land
lord again repeated, his eyes becoming more
and more fixed and glazed from the steadi.
ness of the gaze. A slight smile, which had
great effect upon the minds of those pres
ent, played upon his face as he thought of
the many unsuccessful resorts to win him
from his purpose, and of his success in baf-
fling them. The physician entered. He stood
by the side Of the busy man. He looked at
him in sience-shook his head, and to the
anxious inquiry of his wife, answered.
mo madam" The fewer persons here the
better. The maid had better stay away do
not let the maid"-
Here she goes, there she goes p yet again
in harmony with the waving finger, issued
again from the lips of the landlord.
"a consultation, think, will be necessa-
ry," aaid the physician. "Will you run at
once for Dr. A.?
The kind neighbor buttoned up his coat
and hurried from the room.
In few minutes DR.. A, with another
medical gentleman entered.
"This is sorry sight," said he to the doc
tor with him.
Indeed it is, sir" was the reply. 1t is a
sudden attack, one of the" -
Here she goes, there she goes !" was the
sole reply. The physicians stepped into a
corner and consulted together.
1T is advisable, think, that his head be
shaved" said one to the other, who assent
ed-"and will dispatch servant for bar
ber," resolution which he put Immediately
into effect.
Here she goes, there she goes !' almost
shouted the landlord, as the minute hand ar
rived at the desired point.