Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-23

"Hold your tongue! She served you righ
enough-you'd no business there. You're
pretty thing to be making mouths at person
old enough to be your grand mother. If II
thought when gave you that little lump o
dough, that the whole plantation was to b.
; turned up side down. about it, I'd have le
you do without it."
Miss Louisa, after little sobbing anc
pouting drew from her apron small, dirty,
ashy, black, wrinkled, burnt biscuit, warm
from the kitchen shovel. which would have
been just precisely the accompaniment tc
Miss Rebecca's dish; and upon this, in pre-
ference to everything on the table, she com
menced her repast.
"Well, Lou" said the mother, with 8
laugh, you certainly have strange taste p
Every body knows, that the mothers laugh
is always responded to with compound in
terest by all her children. So was it in this
instance; and good humor prevailed round
the table.
"I'm sorry," said RSfaham, '.for Louisa's
bis, bis, kit. b;skit."
"Well, really" said Mrs. B., "you are a
handsome speller. Is that the way to spell
biscuit :"
Il can spell it, ma! !" bawled out Isaac.
"Well, spell it"
"B.i s, bis-c-cWell, that's right, )-h,-''
"Ah, we'll that'll do, you needn't 60 any
farther; you've missed it farther than your
brother"
"Spelli it, William"
William spelled it correctly.
"Ma," said George, what is biscuit derived
from p
Il really do not know" said Mrs. B., land
yet | have somewhere read an explanation
Of it. John, what is it derived from?"
John.-From the French; bis twice, and
cult baked.
W,lliam.-Why, ma, you don't bake bis.
cults twice over!
Abraham.-Yes, ma does sometimes don't
you, ma, when company comes?
Mother.-No; | sometimes warm over
cold ones, when havnt time to make fresh
ones but never bake them twice.
Butler.-They were first made to carry to
sea and they were then baked twice over ;
as believe sea biscuits still are.
Isaac.-Ma, what's breakfast rived from?
Mother.-Spell it and you will see?
Isaac.-B re.a.k, breck, fu.s t, fust, break
FAST
Mother.-Well, Ike, you are grand spell.
ler. Breakfast, is the word not breakfast.
Abraham-I know what it comes from.
Mother.-What?
A braham.-You know when you call US
chill EN- to breakfast we all break off and run
as fast as we can split.
Mother-Well, that is brilliant deriva.
ton, truly. Do you suppose there was no
breakfast before you children were born ?
Abraham.-But, ma, everybody has chill.
dren.
Mrs. Butler explained the term.
Isaac.-Ma, know what sassidge comes
from.
Mother.-What
Isaac.-'Cause its got sass in it.
Mother.-Well, there, there, there-Ive
got enough of your deriyations, unless they
were better. You'll learn all these things as
you grow older.
Just here, Miss Sarah, who had been
breakfasting at a side table, was seized with
curiosity to see what was on the breakfast
table, Accordingly, she undertook to draw
herself up to convenient elevation by the
table cloth. Her mother arrested her just
in time to save cup, and pushed her aside
with gentle admonition. This did not abate
Miss Sarah's curiosity in the least, and she
recommended her experiment. Her mother
removed her little more emphatacally this
time. These little Interruptions only fired
Miss Sarah's zeal, and she was returning to
the charge with redoubled energy, when she
ran her cheek against the palm Of her moth
er's hand with rubJacient force.
Away she went to her grand mother, cry
ing "Gramma, ma whipp'd your precious
darlin' angel baby"
did she, my darling? Then grandma's
precious darlin' angel must be good child,
and mother won't whip it any more
"Well, I will be good chile"
swell, then, mother won't whip it any
more" And this conference was kept up
without variation of letter on either side,
until the grandmother deemed it expedient
to remove Miss Sarah to an adjoining room,
lest the mother should insist upon the imme'
diate ful6llment of her promises.
ma, just look at Abe cried out Will
liam. "He saw me going to take biscuit,
and he snatched up the very one was look
in at."
"Abe," said the mother, 81 do wish could
make you quit nick naming each other; and
| wish more that had never set you the ex.
ample Put down that biscuit, sir, and take
another"
Abraham returned the biscuit, and Will
liam took it up, with sly, but triumphant
giggle at Abraham.
ma" said Abraham, "Bill Said Guddmn." !"
Law, what story Ma, I declare l nev-
er said no such thing"
Eyes, you did, and CLANCY heard you"
Williams countenance Immediately show
ed that his memory had been refreshed and
he drawled out, "never none now," with q
tone and countenance that plainly impaired
guilt to some extent. His mother suspected
he was hinging upon technics, and she put
the probing question-"Well, what did you
say"
"And that's just as bad. Mr. Butler, you
positively will have to take this boy in hand.
He evinces strong propensity to profane
swearing which if not corrected Immediate
ly will become ungovernable"
"Whenever you can't manage him. said
Butler, as before, "just turn him over to me,
and reckon can cure him."
"When did he say it ?" inquired the moth
er, returning to Abraham.
"You know that time you sent all US chill
dren to the ew-ground to pick peas"
"Why that's been three months ago at
least, and you've just thought now of telling
it. Oh you malicious toad, you where dc
you learn to bear malice so long? l abhor
thot trait of oho ro ctor in q child