The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-04-26
Market Day in d Rollaud Town.

Market Day In ashollaud Town.
The very air seemed teeming with
cheeses. They looked like great golden
apples, or rather between very large
apple and small pumpkin. They are
very elastic and slippery, too, when
new, and these were.al very new, and
evidently suffering from nervous ex-
citement,, judging feom the state. of
"quiver" they ali eemed to be in.
The market-place was flleo With great
high wsgon-loads o. them, and frantic
peasants tossing them down to the
porters, who were y, ",shying" them
madly about here aud there, to and
fro, until it looked like seme insane
jugglery practice. It was no joke to
walk calmly about during these ma
neuvers there was . tolerable chance
of a stray shot withone cf these balls
Of concentrated indigestion. Fatal
error to try and dodge them. Sure to
be hit. Keep yodr. course, and the
pitchers and tossers allow for you and
a rational amountgof headway. But
of course Ithey cannot allow for
eccentric dodging. There is much
demented shouting, and a SEEM
ingly absurd amount of hand
shaking. This is apt to mislead the
stranger. 1t is no merely sentimental
meeting or parting, but the usual ce-
menting grasp of a final bargain. The
cheeses go merrily by, piled high on
hand-barrows, to thegreat weigh-house
to be sealed. Interpreters are race
apart. 1t is no small Job to carry about
three or four hundredsweight of dodgy
and shiftless balls, piled up on hand
barrow, without spilling them. The
porters have curious scuffling, sham
bling way of gliding over the ground.
The arms are outspread, partly for
balance, partly toward off cclliders.
Every scale in-sthe weigh-house is
painted some distinguishing color, or
arrangement of colors, and each set of
porters have painted hats and badges
of the corresponding tint; and as there
are many scales, soldoes it come topass
that the whole scene, looks like wild
revel of all the most positive and Grade
colors out of the rainbow. The barrow
is slung across the shoulders by straps,
and as they do not touch their hands
to It to steady it, the slightest concuss-
ion is enough to briags down the slip
perry pyramid witharun.
We saw a small and gheedless boy
manage to run full tatzagainst a pair
of these carriers, and every golden
sphere of boundiG1s cheese went flying
to the four winds. Ehe unhappy ur-
chin was not cuffed nor even vilifed,.
nor did they speak unkindly Of his
parents 1.-THE eraysi simply paused in
mad careec; to work, to pursue
and pgItis 80 no
one Alt
TOO ) s.
ing he
.obliging aFs- polish
off the dust The 2ed surface
before they helped to pile them back
on the barrow. The unlucky boy
seemed to be rather sympathized with,
and even mild sort Of martyr. I was
surprised that nobody kissed him. We
noticed that children are invariably
"made much Of in the way of kindly
and indulgent treatment all over Hol-
land.
When we found the cheese carnival
rather pail upon us, we sought other
scenes, but it was difficult to get en-
tirely away from it; something would
turn up to show how. deep and wide
its interests were in Alkmaar. Along
the quays were numbers of vessels
loading with all sorts of it, to all parts
of the globe, wherever the least scrap
of digestion remains intact. The
quaint old warehouses along the docks
had nearly all stone tablets, showing
that for two hundred years or so they
had identified themselves with this
one industry. From the upper stories
of these cheeseries we're long wooden
cutters leading to the ships in dock,
and along these troughs trickled
never-ceasing rill Of the ripened and
matured article, now brilliant GRIM
son-the final tint it comes to when
ready for the far-olf dyspeptic.-Har-