The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1882-02-16
INTENSELY UTTER.

fortably we'll of in the small grocery
line, was sent away toa female col,
lege,' and last week arrived home for
the holiday vacation. The old man
was in attendance at the depot when
the train arrived, with the old horse
in the delivery,wsgon to convey his
daughter and her trunk to the house.
When the train had stopped, a be
witching array of dry goods and a
wide. brimmed hat, dashed from the
car, and flung itself into the elderly
party's arms.
why, you superlative pa? she ex,
claimed, Pm so utterly glad to see
you
The old man was somewhat un-
nerved by the greeting, but he reccg
pized the sealskin cloak in his grip
as the identical piece of property he
had paid for with the bay mare, and
he sort of squat it up in his arms,
and planted kiss where it would do
the most good, with a report that
sounded above the noise of the depot.
In brief space of time the trunk and
its abundant baggage were loaded in.
to the Wagon, which Was soon bump
ing over the bubbles toward home.
PA, DEAR said the young MISS
surveying the team with critical
eye, do you consider this quite ex-
cessively beyond? !?
'Hey?' returned the old man with
puzzled air; quite excessively be-
yond what? Beyond Warren? I
consider it somewhat about ten miles
beyond Warren, countin' from the
Bath way, if that's what you mean
o no, pa, you don't understand
me- the daughter explained 1
mean this horse and wagon. Do, ycu
think that they are soulful ?-do you
think they could be studied apart in
the light of symphony, or even a
| simple poem, and appear as intensely
utter to one on returning home as one
could express p
The old man twisted uneasily in
| bis seat, and muttered something
about he believed it used to be used
for an express wagon before be
bought 1t to deliver pork II, but the
conversation appeared to be travelling
| in such lonesome direction that he
| fetched the horse a resounding crack
on the rotunda, and the severe joitlng
over the frozen ground prevented
further remarks.
Oh, there is that lovely and con-
summate ma p screamed the returned
collegiatess as they drove up at the
door, and presently she was lost in the
embrace of a motherly woman II
spectacles.
| We'll, Maria said the old man al
the supper table, as he nippod piece
| of butter off the lump with his OWE
knife, 'apd how d'you like your
school?'
We'll, there, pa, now you're shou-
| l mean, ] consider it far too beyond,
replied the daughter. 1T is too un'
quenchably inefable. The girls are
so sumptuously stunniDg-I mear
grand-so ezquisite-so intense AND
then the parties, the balls, the rides
oh, the past weeks have been one sub
lime harmony
L s'pose Sol s'pose So nervously
assented the old man as he reached
for his third cup, half full but how
about your books-readin', writin'
grammar, rule O three-how about
them 2
PA, don't exclaimed the daughter
reproachfull3; the rule of three
grammar! It is French, and music
and painting, and the divine in ar
that has made my school like the bos'
III mean that have rendered it ont
unbrokeu flow of rhythmic bliss-in
comparably and ezquisitely all but
The grocery man and his wife look
ed helplessly at each other across sh'
table. After a lonesome pause tn
old lady said:
How do you like the biscuits, Ma
ria?'
They are too utter for anything,
: gushed the accomplished young lsaJ
and this plum preserve is simply
poem in itself.
The old man abruptly rose from th
: table and went out of the room, rub
: bing his head in dazed and benumt
ed manner, and the mass con7entlo
was dissolved. That night he and nj
wife sat alone by the stove until la'
hour, and at the breakfast table th
next morning he raped smartly 0
, his plate with the handle of his knl!