Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-07-07

it there rest.''
"rll have," snid Abraham, "some ham
gravy and some egg and some hominy"
"Help him, Chuney.'
"What'll you havo, Isaac2"
"l'll have some ham gravy and some
hominy and some sassidge and some spare
rib aud some
"Well, you're not going TO have evory
thing on tho table, aesurc you. What
do you want2"
II waut somo ham gravy and some
hominy."
John, help -
"No. l don't want no gravy; I want
some sparerib."
"John, give him"
"No. Idon't want spurerib; want somo
sassidgo"
swell, if you don't make up your mind
pretty quick you'll want your breakfast, /
tell you. I'm not goiug to be tantalizod all
day long by Jour wants. Say what you
want and have done with it,"
81 want some ham gravy and somo sas-
sdge and some ho,pny."
"Help him, John"
John helped him to about tablespoon
full from oaoh dish.
"Now, ma, just look at bud John! lie
haint 81 me only these threo little bit O.
bits"
"John, if you cau't keep from tantalizing
the children, tell ne so, and I will not
trouble you to help them any moro. CON
fess that am at loss to discover what
pleasure one Of your ago can take ~ Teas
ing your younger brothers."
"Rcbecca, what do you want2"
81 want my pig tail, ma'am.'
"Blcss my soul and body, hav'nt you for
got that pig tail yet? Its burnt up long
ago, hope. Look, Bob, and SEQ and if it
isn't, give it to her. wish in my heart
there never was pig tail upon the face of
the earth"
Bob produced the half charrcd pig tail
and laid it on Rebecca's plate.
"Thcre," continued her mother, III hone
now your hearts at case. A beautiful dish
it is, truly, for any MORTAL to take fancy
to-"
"Ma, don't want this pig tail"
"Take it away. knew you didn't want
it, you little porvcrso brat-I knew you
didn't want it, and don't know what got
into me to let you have it. But, really,
am so tormcnted out Of my life that half
the time / hardly know whether I'm stand
ing on my head or heels"
"Mis'e es," said Chaney, "Auut Dorcas say
please make Miss Louisa come out of the
kitchen-say If you don't mako her como
out o the fire she'll git burnt up presently
say every time she tell her to como out of
the fire she make mouth ut her."
"Why, sure enough, where is Louisa?
Go aud tell her to como into her breakfast
this instant"
II did tell her, mp'am and she say she
won't come till she gets done baking her
cake"
Mrs Butler left tho room and soon reap
peared with Louisa sobbing ond crying:
"Aunt Dorcas jerked mo just as hard as
ever she could jcrkc, >foro did anything
tall to her."
"Hold your tongue! She served you
right enough you'd no business there.
You're pretty thing to be making mouths
ct a person old enough to be your graud-
mother. If I'D thought when | gavo you
that little lump Of dough that the whole
plantation was to be turned upside down
about it I'D have let you do without it,"
Miss Louisa, after n little sobbing end
pouting. drew from her apron a small, dirty,
ashy, black, wrinklcd, burnt biscuit, warm
from tho kitchen shovel, which would have
been just precisely the accompaniment to
Miss Rebcoca's dish, and upon this, in pre-
ference to everything on tho table, she
commenced her repnst.
"Well, Lou," said the mother, with n
laugh, "you certainly have strange tastc!"
Every body knows that the mothers
laugh is always responded to with compound
interest by all her children. So was it 10
this instance, and good humor prevailed
round tho table.
"Fm sorry" said Abraham, "for Louiss's
b ia, bis, XII t, bishi"
"Well, really, said Mrs. b "you arc
handsome spcllcr. Is that tho way to spell
Jtscuit9v
H can spell it, NAL" bawlcd out Tsaoc.
Woll, spell it,"
"B>i 3. bis-CWell, that's right, y-h-v
"Ah, well, that'l DO; you needn't go any
farther; you've missed it farther than your
brother"
"Spcll it, William
William spelled it correctly.
"Ma,v said George, "what is biscuit de-
rived from?''
81 really do not know" said Mrs. b.,
"and yet | have somewhere read on exa
planation of it. John, what is it derived
from2"
John-From the French; bis twice and
cut baked.
William-Why, ma, you don't bake
biscuits twice over!
Abraham-Yes, ma does sometimes;
DON'T you, ma, when company comes7
Mother-No; l sometimes warm over
cold ones, when | haven't timo to mako
flesh nnns. hnt nnynr hakn thnm tminn