The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-07-24
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long enough.
We'uns seed the writin' marster a
comm and nav she jerked the broom
quick and swept mp the hath, and sot a
cheer in the entry and axed him to light
and come in.
Cousin Pink and me and CaEedony got
back in the shed room and peeped
through the crack of the door st him.
"What mought be your name ?"( said
Aunt Nancy, "ef mought be so bold as
to AK .~.-.-
"Broom is my nane," says hs, and Cal
she snickered, and whispered. ga new
broom sweeps clean," says she.
He sot bit, then axed:
"Whar do you'unses keep your drinkin'
waters" and went back to; the water
shelf, and after he drunk q gonrd. of,
water he tuck wash; and long as he
was stranger, Flurridy she yiz the:
chestlid and tuck outs bran new store;
bought handtoRel, that hadnt never
been billed, and hescrubbed and scrubbed,
and I KNOWN reason: he mought have
scrubbed thar tel yet if Aunt Nancy
hadn't tuck pity on him and gin.him a
old saff towel.
"Them as never has. tried to dry ther
faces on onesof 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 get
doRn and be seated"
The minute the Ffeshourses sees, any.
body at our house here they coiaes. The
ole 'oman come in putin and BLOWN
to see who the stranger vas, and; the.
chillun come tearin' across the truck
patch fetchin' in all the mud on ther bar
feet. They stood right afore him with,
,ther eyes and mouths wide open. Some,
chillun, 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 vas all standin'
around like he was q monkey show He.
had ontied his bundle and was shown,
Ethe spessiments! !of his hand write and
alIsorts of little birds in red inE and blue
ink, some settin' up on quill pens and
some with leaves in their mouths. And
he had goose swimmin' on the water
that he lowed he made all at tonce'tWithiri,
out takin' up his pen, and Aunt Nancy,
she winked at maw-didn't believe nairy
word Of it. Flurridy lowed them birds
tuck her eye, and Cousin Pink lowed the
goose tuck her'n. The little Freshourses
'peared Ike they would jist bardacioualy
climb all over the man spite OF everything
if ther nanny hadn't jerked 'em back.
,She gin.Dick q jerk1and lowed: = -,
: taSetj down thar, Dicky, tho stranger
don't, want to nuss you. Come here to
me, Becky Ann, you're too big to do that
way, pine blank like yen never had saw,
nothin' aforein your life; and youeknow
your uncle. Josiah Freshours drawed q
bird and tarripin too outn red ink and
blue ink too-set down fore i slap you
down, and quit q gain like you hadn't
never saw nothin' afore, and which you
: knowayou il" ;ay =,
He wanted pap to let him put our
names down. Pap he was about half
tight, and lowed:
81. don't know as keer about it. My
=4folks. ken all write tollerble fair fists,
leastwsys they ken read it theyeelves.
But Efecki1 they'll ALT want to take
they most ';ingilaerly takes eysy. fool
thing as comssla along: They buys from
all the peddlers, and alters gih cheated
they tuck cipherin' lessons from that
rethmetic man, and he was gwine to larn
'em all 30 fast how to do any sum in the
United States in two minutes and a. halt,
and he never 80 much as larnr 'em how.
to count six aigs. Then they tuck singin'
from that ar trout.mouth squealin' fiddler
that come along here last year at tater
diggin' time. The fact Of the business is
this whole settlementis is about half crazy.
He never larnt 'em dimes worth as l
could see. But nevertheless, howsom.
. ever, Notwithstanding singin' you know
is one thing and writin' is tother, and
while 1 maintains to the doctrine that q
pretty hand write haint no sign of smart
ness, nevertheless, Notwithstanding l
never stands as no stumbling block in the
way Of my chillun larnin' n0thin'.. Live
and larn have alters been nv martow,
but TllIell you the truth and stake my
affidavit on it, that the biggest fool ever
I seed writ the beautifullest hand write" !"
Then Aunt Nancy mp and lowed: II
ssIs it tnoslaru no pay or III you got
to plank up the money aforehand? Sposen
now, for n'instance, I goes and takes, jist
sposen you know, and sposen don't larn
how:will you gimme my money back or
will you keep it? That's what I desires
-toin9lire fore ] putsmy name down, Least.
. ways that's what I'm akin, sforehsn'
Not ssI am thinkin' of putin; Of it
down, mind you, but I wssjist g. sposen."
He laughed and told her if she'd take
he wouldn't charge her npthin'' and SO he
put her name, down. When old. man
Freshours heasn that old maa Lofts was
a gwine to take writin' lessons he lowed
he wouldn't be outdone, and told the
writin' marster TO put his name down too.
."And you. ken jist come over to my
house." says he "and eat out the worth OF
it in Xittles, or you,, ken wait tel I ken
take soIne watermiilions to toHn airy one,
odds Il, ths afHsrence,to TO me-"
But odds wasn't the difference to Mr..
Broom. he eyed old Freshours minute
CHE had done seed old Miss Freshours and
the chillunl and said he believed he'd
druther wait tel he sold the watermil'
lions and Who blamed him