Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-03-01
Aauadruus 2epatt'meut.
ssSICH AS IT'S"

ssSICH AS IT'S"
A traveller in Florida quotes his ''intelH-
gent coach man" for information about men
and things in the State. On the way from
Alligator to the Suwannee River he says
this talkative driver congratulated him on
his escape from East Florida, "the land of
hog and hominy," to Middle Florida, "the
land of sowins." "Sowins' proved to be a
corruption of souring: i, e., pounded corn
soured by baking in the sun and served up
usually with gopher steak" or hard-shell
kind of fare an improvement on "hOg and
hominy," but related an instance, neverthe-
less, illustrating it's some time effect upon
strangers. '..
A "solitary horseman'' was on his way
through the pine country of this region. He
spent night in cabin, where he could pro-
cure nothing for his horse but corn-husks.
In the morning he was given for breakfast
some sourings and gopher-steak. The for
mer dish turned his stomach and made him
sick, while the latter resisted all his mastica-
ting efforts.
At nightfall, thirty miles further on, he
pulled up at another cabin, where he asked
if he could get lodging and something to
eat. -.
eyes, if you can put up with sich as 'tis,"
was the answer. - 'f's , . t."
Sowins and gopher were again placed be-
fore him !; but heslept soundly, and was OFT
before daylight the next morning.
When night came again, he made another
appeal for food, and again the cheerful reply
ssYes,a If you can put up With sich as
it's"
The wanderer frantically mounted his
half-famished steed, eXclaiming- IL
'It won't do; I've tried 'sich as 'tis''
twice or three times, and couldn't eat it no
how" e.,
And so, by the dim light of a new moon,
and looking the picture of famine, he
changed his course of travel to the nearest
boundary line of the State, and was never
seen in Middle Florida again.
HAD THE. DEAD, WOOD ON gHDR.-The
other day man and woman came to hadt
on Grand River street. and the woman
dropped basket she was carrying, and cried
out: t
81 will! will! I'll not live with you
another dayw
"You'll leave me, will you?" he calmly
asked. 5f..e : -z. Fzif.s sf5 ? Ef2
eyes, Iwill." :
"When 2"
"Now-right off-this minute"
"YOunl 60 away"
II
81 wouldn't if I were you" -
"But will, and defy you to prevent me.
have suffered atyour handsas long as can
put up with it.
ooh! shan't try to stop you," he quiet
yreplied. "I'Isimply report to the police
that my wife has mySteriOusly disappeared.
They will want your description, and
shall give it. You wear No. shoes; you
have an extra large mouth; you walk stiff
s,~x tv,,s OF 40
end hair the color of a brick terra Gotta,
the newest in fashion; eyes rather on the
squint.; voice partakes Of" }Eg
"Wretch you wouldn't dare do that y
she screamed. -
II certainly will, and the description will
geinto all the papers. - '~rrr-- - 1850
They glared at each other for a minute
like cats. Then he walked on. She looked
up and down the street, gritted her teeth to-
gether, and then picked up her basket and
followed on after him. He had what they
call the dead wood on her.-Detro1 Free
Press.
HER REGHTs.-Most of our colOred peO-
pie are determined to enjoy to the fullest
extent the privileges of the emancipation
act.
A young gentleman recently entered the
ladies' cabin of Brooklyn ferry boat and
took the only seat that was vacant. Pres
emily he went to look at himselfin mirror,
leaving his hat on the seat, which was i'm
mediately usurped by colored woman.
The young man saw her, but was too late.
''That's my seat" he exclaimed.
"NO, sab des yar's der ladies' cabing."
"But had the seat before you and you
are sitting on''-
'Yassar. Yo' was heah befo' but is heah
behind, an it's none o. your biZneSs what
rs sOttin on"
'.Yes, madam, but''-
'Dais no use verlOsserpedin' ter me. l
knows my rights, accordin' ter de fo'teenth
amendment. Niggah's good as white, an
der Emancipation proclamation was Wo-
Emancipation likewise. Go way, or I'll call
a OSsifer."
He was compelled to wait until the boat
reached the slip before he could obtain his
hat, and when he recovered it it looked like
concertina in repose.
A SOFT SPOT ON HIS HEAD.-"You
mustn't touch the top of the baby's head"
said mother to her little four-year-Old !;
'she has soft spot there that is very ten
der"
.-.~The youngest gazed at it curiously for {,
mement and then asked:
"Do all babies, have soft spots on their
heads?"
"Yes.n:H r.sss-4s.s zz.-E
"Did papa have a soft spot on the top
Of his head when he was baby" "a
eyes" replied the mother with a sigh,
''and he has got ityet."
And the father. who had overheard the
conversation from an adjoining room, sang
out: eyes, indeed, my dear boy, or he
would be single man to day"
A FACT.--It was at what was once the
court end of Boston. The teacher was born
in land where philosophers abound and
teaching is one of the fine arts. A blot had
fallen, by hook or by crook, upon the boys
writing book. The teacher snatched up
the book, looked at the inky spot with his
well-trained eyes, and, pointing at it stern
ly exclaimed: "What is it you call that ?"