The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1884-01-31
correspondent from Cypress.
Fite at Manasers.

wanted lots on us, that is we the peo-
pie, to rite for your little muse paper.
Well l believe 1 shall rite you some
thing bout the big time we had up to
Kinlock, on the twenty fust OF July,
1888, long time back, but you know a
good time is never too old to numer-
ate to any one. Well I tell you | had
nifty nice time on it. They said it
was to commensurate the big fite at
Manasers, whal Kinlock didn't fit and
blede an die. AS we had got dun
hoein taters, dady said I r.out go, and
go did. No. this here Kinlock is a
place; there's three stores thar. whar
they has lots of kaliker, and other
ixens, and thar ar a dram shop too,
whar they has tumlers what cusin Bill
says make him think OF goin to skule
an learning rithmetick, about three
skruples maxim one dram, that's the
way with them tumlers, and more so
fur three ov EN- wont make one dram.
Not like we cypress foxes like to take, we
don't skruple at all. But I'se bout to
furgit I started to tell you bout goin to
K, weil.as we had dun hoein taters, /
went. It wur Saturday, and put on
my best, and when I got thar the fust
man seed wrr too wimin. and bein as
was in for the day I hitched on to one
on EN-, the Yungest. She was rail
purity. Ibe1ieye her name was Rosy !;
Can't tell all we said; my !oyment
with Mis- Rosy was misfortunatly fated
to termenate early, for good looking
man with red he'd q believe it wur Mis-
Rosy's dady, an he dun it fur spite)
come along aud colled out for all the
wimin to meet and kongregate an git
| together at tie store whar thar was a
little fax hedcd chap staid. The men
had mostly al dun gon over to the
little three skruple shop.
And as this were military occash hun,
they got two fellers with old fidles, and
they skrocht and sawed, and the VIM
in they all got into a strate line too an
| too together, too at time, and the
too fdlers an the red heded man wark-
ed fust in frunt at the he'd before the
wimin. The men all coined when they
pleased, an a heep oy them didn't please
| to 90 till they had took smile at the
little shop before said. When the fd-
lers and Wimin t~A got to the place,
the red heded MA tole them to sot
down an said srmbody woud speek,
but there wosnt no speekin. Sum men
got up an thort tn, = wur goin to. talk
bout patriotism al the big fte at
Manassers, but they only said they
had sumthing to say, an wanted every
body an the rest OF mankin to vote for
them thort if Mis- Rosy would vote
for me, wudent care a straw who
voted fol. them men: When they got
dun speekin, The red heded man want
| ed every body to holler bout sum iuge,
but nobody wudent holler. Mis- Rosy
looked at me an smiled so purity that |
wanted to laf rite out, felt so good,
| but / was ashamed, feered would
sturb, the solGmnity Of the occashun.
Then the red heded man said the VIM
in must all get in strate line an 60 to
diner, this is the part of the occashun
| that represented the fite at Manassers.
The wimin skirmished a little, sum oy
lnem purity we'll, but the men, they
III ~ aR charged agin, and stood q
I tell Won III a0bly, no boaEEse s
lers that come ffesssAssS ne
vile (they swell like it wer lgusta)
they is sum at this kind OF Manassers
tite, they is what l calls sum on sheep
and they tote their liker with EN-.
Them chaps didn't suite Mis- Rosy.
| Arter they wer dun eting, they all,
| mostly the Young folks, went to mans
house to danse. a long hungry looking
Teller they called docter, said they
would trip on the lite fantastic toe, but
I thort No NI shue filed ful OF foot
kudn.t trip very lite, thar wur heep of
this kind. Well tha got too fdlers an
went to that house an you should hay
seed them. The thermometer wus at
100. Me an Mis- Rosy we pitched in,
Mis- Rosy face got nifty red, [ said it is
warm, Mis- Rosy, says yes, it makes me
expire very much, IN she axed ME If ]
didn't think them Sleeps the felers e s
so much Of wrr bad to jump, foT the1
men jumped mitly when they danseE
! I said yes, an the wimin too. And tx;
dansed an they dansed, an rite thar
they closed up the commenseration OF
the fife at Manassers. Now lam in for
1 the town Of K, tha fed US nifty vel,
them fellers thar are nifty cleTer chaps;
c0sin Bill says that too ev em wur up
to his meetin house tudder sunday.
| said he didn't know If they got lost or
went thar Gu purpos, they looked kir-
| der lost. One had on such nice kalike4
shuse, cosin Bill sais you orter se6e
| how the old wimmin an little BOYS Z.
| case at them kaliker shues.
i Now this is the fuss time Level 4
fur . nusepaper, and T don't know 7 + 4; 4
j it orter be did, but you can fix 4 Fu
rite, Maby you ort to put at the hds :,
this when you put itin your paper !. :
koresp spondent from cypress, do if ~ =
am think you viii git sum scribesta : a
Aere On cipTea. Your friend, Eu a'
Jack sNl J 70.