The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-07-24


lessons too. Old man Lofts lowed h,
had alters hearn it said it was never to,
late to larn, and he was gwine to larl
how to sign his name if nothn' more
'peared like he had been maxim Of
his
X
mark
long enough.
Weuns seed the writin' marster q
comm and nav she jerked the broom
quick and swept up the hath, and sot !,
cheer in the entry and axed him to ligh,
and come ir.
Cousin Pink and me and Caledony got
back in the shed room and peeped
through the crack Of the door at him.
"What mought lie your name ?" said
Aunt Nancy, "ef mought be 80 bold al
10 az"
Broom is my nane," says lie, and Cal
she snickered, and whispered, "A new
broom sweeps clean," says che.
He sot q bit, then axed
"Whar do you'unseS keep your drinkin'
water?" and went back TO the water
shelf, and after he drunk O gourd, of
water he tuck wash; and long ay he
was a stranger, Flunidy she riz the
chest lid and tuck outs bran new store
bought handtowel, that hadn't never
been billed, and hescrubbed and scrubbed.
and know in reason he mought have
scrubbed thar tel yet If Aunt Nancy
hadn't tuck pity on him and gin him q
old saff towel.
Them as never has tried to dry ther
faces on one OF these here new stiff store
bought towels fore hits been washed
don't know how aggrevatin' it is," says
Aunt Nancy, tryin' to be civil hammered
towards him. "Take cheer and set
down and beseated."
The minute the Freshourges sees any.
body al our house here they comes. The
ole oman come in puliu' and blown'
to see who the stranger was and the
chill.n come tearin' across the truck
patch iet1k:n' III sli the :p:d Or :ha7 har
feet. They stood right afore him with
ther eyes and mouths wide open. Some
chillIn. you know, couldn't see wink
lesson ther mouth was open. We gals
had slicked our heads and starched our
faces and come out, and was all standin'
around like he was monkey show. He
had ontied his bundle and was a showin'
the spessiments of bis hand write and
all sorts Of littlo birds Ia red ink and blue
ink, some q settin' up on quill peus and
some with leaves In their mouths. And
he had goose swimmin' on the water
that he lowed he made all at once't with
out takin' up his pen, and Aunt Nancy
she winked at maw-didn't believe NARY
word OF it. Flurridy lowed them birds
tuck her eye, and Cousin Pink lowed the
goose tuck bern. The little Freshourses
'peared like they would jist bardaciouSIy
climb all over the man spite of everything
If ther nanny hadn't jerked 'em back.
She gin Dick jerk aud lowed:
"Set down thar, Dicky, the stranger
don't want to nuss you. Come here to
me, Becky Ann, you're too big to do that
way, pine blank like yeu never had saw
noshin' afoFe iu your life; and youeknow
your uncle Josiah Freshours drawed
bird and tarripin too out'n red ink and
blue ink too-set down fore slap you
down, aud quit gain like you hadn't
never saw nothin' afore, and which you
know you is."
He wanted pap to let him put our
names down. Pap he was about half
tight, and lowed:
don't know as keer about It. Nv
folks ken all write tollerble fair fats,
leastways they ken read 1t theyeelves.
But Efeckin they'll alt, want 70 take
they most inginaetly takea every, fool
thing as comes aleng They buys from
all the peddlers, end allers gifts cheated
they tuck cipherin' Lessons from that
rethmetic man, and he was gwine to larn
'em all go fast how to do any. sum Ia tho
United States in two minutes and half.
and be sisyer 80 Eiaoh ss isrAt 'ete hApA
to count six aigs. Then they tuck singIinl'
from that ar trout-moutb squealin' fiddler
that come along here last year at tater
diggin' time. The fact Of the buaineas 10
this whole settlements about half crazy.
He never larnt 'em dimes worth asI
. could see. But nevertheless, howsom.
ever, notwithstanding singin' you know
is one thing and Writin' is tother, and
while I maintains to the doctrine that o
pretty hand write haint no sign of smart.
ness, nevertheless, Notwithstanding
never stands as no stumbling block in the
way Of my chillun larnin' nothin'. Live
and larn have allers been my martow,
but FIEteli you the truth aud stake nv
affidavit on it, that the biggest fool ever
seed writ the beau.ifullest hand write"
Then Apne Nancy np and lowed: "a
!s2 it noiarn no pay or is you got!
to plank up the money aforehand2 ? Sposen
now, for ninstance. goes and takes, jist
how ai yea ea9s ss ss sn9.sn an.n doR 1atn
will you keep it9 That's what desires
tyagsF thays vhat Tm axin, nsorshan,
Not as;T am thiukin' or Of ppttin' Tisnsi: of T.
down, mind you, but was jist O. sposon.n
He laughed and told her IL sba'd lake
he wouldn't ohargehef tbthin' and 90 he
Freshuurs hessn ;thut old, man I ,ofsia aaa @
q ewine 10 fake, wfItin' Tessorss Sc S IozSSsssa va