The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1883-04-05
What Snimes Saw.
1t was Saturday afternoon, and

| 1t was Saturday afternoon, and 1t had
been raining, it was the last afternoon
of the week, and the inhabitants OF
these low grounds were mostly brush
ing of the mud from their breeches
legs, that is the male portion,-i don't
know what the women were doing
, and tying up the frazelled ends OF the
weeks operations. Some OF them were
returning husbands to wives, wives to
husbands, to homes in the country.
Some were drunk with Joy. some with
whiskey. OF the latter speak. I too
was full-full of Joy, for was elevated.
who would not be joyful under such
circumstances. I was high, up on a
horses back, sedate horse, a horse
upon whose head the SHOWS of many
winters had fallen, so many that it was
useless to attempt to figure his age.
He was for sale, aged horses are gen.
orally for sale, and a. a reputed man
of means. had the refusal of him. I
did refuse him, and I would here state
that l don't want to possess old horses.
Some men think that belong to the
| society for the prevention of cruelty
to animals" and hence bring their old
stagers to me, that I may give them
corn andfoddcrin their decliningyears.
I decline. 1t is mistaken idea, too,
that have oodles of money; it's sin
to think so, as have frequently to pay
more for an article than it is worth.
Its getting monotonous.
But I digress; it was Saturday after
noon. l was riding, ambling along,
my favorite gait, it was favorable to the
horse too. Twas dreaming that ''dwelt
in marble halls" when found myself
on the banks of Scott's creek south fork,
the otherwise placid and limpid
waters of which now disturbed by the
rain which erst had fallen, rushed mad
ly within few hundred yards of old
Blandoosan Spring. A wagon had roll
ed down to the waters edge, the horses
were in the water, the driver, colored,
sat picturesque upon one horse, itwould
have been unwise to sit upon more than
one: in the rear was another wagon,
it also had horses in front, these were
not in the water, but wanted to be
there, they were thirsty; inside the
wagon were two white men reclining
upon the greasy bacon purchased in
town, seemingly obliviOus of passing
events, they may have been drunk;
the third man, also white, was drunk,
indisputably so, drunk all over, his
conversation was drunk. He yelled
out to the darkey something which as
it whizzed by on the air, Kissed and
sizzled as if it had been hurled red hot,
from the lower regions, it was aimed
at the darkey, but didnot hit him. The
latter individual called out to his hor-
ses. ''whoa-ah,'' which caught the
white man back of the head with Tyre
like sound. to which he replied ''you
are (hic) another" and struggling thro'
the mud, he approached the darkey.
A torrent of red-hot, cllss words follow
ed: the negro all the while saying, ''go
away. white man. Then tie other
made pass at him with the butt end
of his whip, but the nerveless hand
missed the mark, and the whip went
whirling and surging down the stream.
The white man then affectionately
grasped the darkey by the seat OF so
much of his breeches as was from out
the saddle, and pleadingly invited him
down into the wet-the former it may be
well to state was all the while standing
nearly knee deep in water-the negro
could not resist the appeal, he dis
mounted, then embraced the white
man lovingly, then they went at it nip
and tuck; after wal5zing for second
or two, the darkey turned his partner,
and cutting the pigeon, laid him out in
the soft bed of the stream. Lying with
his head up the stream, the current
which passed in at his neck, percolated
along the small OF his back, and all
along down his legs, finding an exit at
the broken toes of his books. Phanzy
his Phelinks. 1t did not take much OF
a flow OF water to change the current
of his feelings. In moment he was
cured into q wiser and better man, but
it took several seconds for him fully
to realize where he got all the whiskey
which was leaking from his clothes.
Not until he had waded the stream up
and down to discover the rock over
which he thought he had stumbled, did
he seek the wagon. This is what l
saw from my horses back Saturday al
ternoOu.