Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-10-16

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AIMS milk-saturated eyes beheld that i'm
posing picture, she knew that her martyr
dom was not yet completed.
'"Well!' said that tender parent, assum-
ing his severest aspect, as though he was
about to arraign and convict one of the
most daring culprits that had ever appeared
befor human tribunal. Silverskin was
Roman Judge. He ewould not have hesita-
ted to condemn his only child to death, if
honor, justice, or the good Of his country
required it. "Well! may [ ask if you
are aware what day of the week this is?
And what you can possibly mean by desc
Grating it in this manner, appearing on the
streets Of Columbia in such filthy plight?
And aChyyOu have been proWling about with
pitchers and tin cans (as though he saw
forty of those articles strung all around herr
on the Lords day? Do you happen to
know that there is hereafter? And have
you no mother to take care of yOu?"
Poor Patsy Ann, without attempting any
defence of her atrocious conduct, crept by
the pompous declaimer, into the entry, and
deposited the articles which she had clung
to amid all her tribulations, on lounge,
while she united and hung up her hat.
Silverskin, with his big head thrown so far
back that he could see nothing below it, fol-
lowed her, and suddenly "plumpt" down
upon the pitcher and can, breaking one and
mashing the other so flat that even MilGgan
could not have restored its proper shape,
running his pants, wasting the tea, and cut
ting himself.
We never did hear what became of the
cheese, and may be it don't matter much,
but we did hear that the affair caused vio-
lent quarrel between Silverskin and his
wife, which would undoubtedly have re-
suited in divorce, had nota difficulty aris-
en- about the division of the children, neith-
er being quite willing to retain Patsy Ann,
or at ali willing to give her up, as they had
grown to believe firmly that she was des-
one person could protect her from being
killed, or killing some one else.
The trouble was, they couldn't understand
her. They had pearl Of great price and
didn't know its value. If they had known
her she would not so often have been made
a Victim, and this homely but true story
would never have been written.
When Patsy Ann picked up the broken
articles and escaped from the presence of
her Judge, it was with the firm conviction
that she had behaved shamefully that day,
and, "without meaning it either,"' as she
said with pitiful trembling of her lip. She
from her on the street. She had a guilty
consciousness of having intended to do the
same thing herself. She did not blame her
father for scolding her. She thought that
she had looked disreputable enough to de-
serve it. In short, she felt like culprit,
when she was really Victim, and had she
then known that the portly and sacred per-
son of her noble sire had been wounded, and
his precious blood spilled, she would have
died of grief and remorse.
Patsy AIMS two brothers and one sister
were all made of common clay. They were
just such lot of young cumberers OF the
earth as we have often looked at and Won
dered why they were made at all. They
were not entirely devoid of brains, not with
out some tact or rather cunning, but so full
of selfshness, laziness, vanity and love of
power, that one like Patsy Ann naturally
over her, ridiculed her, appropriated or des-
troyed her property yet, after their poor
fashion, they loved her; and if the least
token of it appeared, the poor child believed
so implicitly in that fact that she ignored all
the others, and submitted readily to all their
eXactions. She never planned any mlsChlef
or enjoyed participation in it, yet she was
always made to appear the principal actor
in any that was done, and sustained the
greatest blame and punishment; and if she
attempted remonstrance, they would actu-
ally make her DSlloV0 uclSell guilty..
Silverskin once bought wagon load of
fine watermelons from Mr. Daniel SoX of
Lexington, (by-the-bye, that old gentleman,
though .superannuated, is still living, and
the country can show many of his useful
and industrious descendants) intending to
use some and sell the rest. They were
placed in the cellar, and not being cut as
often as the boys thought desirable, they
laid plan to make it necessary, and Patsy
Ann was sent two or three times day to
tell pa "a melon had busted, and would spile
if it wasn't CUT" and she'd be told Ito bring
it up and cut it then" This occurred so
often that, obtuse as she was, the girl began
to shrink from going.
"Im afraid he'll think Pm cracking the
melons myself" said she.
"Oh you 60 long" said Washington, La
Fayette DeKalb, she won't think no such
thing. Everybody knows that if a water
million stands long it busses."
But she didn't 90, and in the afternoon
Silverskin sold all but two of the largest,
and the boys waited all the forenoon, and
seeing no sign of one being cut, thought it
necessary to take some steps in the matter
or to make Patsy Ann take some, for they
blamed her severely for the disposal of the
rest. She had not been privy to their
former guilt, and when they proposed to go
lions" she readily consented.
"My how big they are" said Madison
Jefferson Jackson. 81 don't believe l could
lift one-you try, Patsy Ann" But she
could't lift it. His expectation was that she
would try to do so and break it, so that he
could run to pa with the news.
"What big fellow that other one isl
said the boy. Nothing could break it but
an axe. Even pa couldn't break it If ne
was to plump down on it. Let's have
some fun. Patsy Ann, you run and jump
on it fust, and We'll follow, and see which
will catch YOU"
"Might break it," said suspicious Patsy.
"Oh! shucks," said the other much nam
ed brother. "You couldn't break it with a
sedge hammer"
Patsy Ann was reassured, ana as she al
ways did everything with all her might, II
she did it all, she ran quickly and sprang
upon the melon. Ofcourse she went into it,
and before she could withdraw her feet, or
realize the situation, her fathers angry
visage appeared at the door above, and one
of her brothers exclaimed, Il told you so,
Patsy Ann; but you acould do it! I'll go
right straight and tell pa pretending not to
see the spectator above). do believe that
you've been crackin' them millions all the
time"
ooh! Jefferson Madison Jackson" cried
the Victim, reproachfully, as she freed her
self from the melon and obeyed her fathers
stern command to "walk up stairs and pre-
pare for a dressing"
"Didn't she put her foot in it," said the
other worthy owner Of great names, with a
| grin.
eyes; both Of 'em," said his brother, as
he proceeded to examine the melon and
gobble down his share of the uninjured
part.
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