The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-05-07


riz corn on my little toe-now Pm
gwine to lay my hair pins right here on
this table, and I don't want none of Won
gals to take 'em in the mornin."
II wish you'uns would make haste and
git to bed. Pm awful tired and sleepy"
III amt a bit sleepy, bat that old black
ersi but I'll hush. Laws, gals, lemme
tell you this, jist this, and then I'll
hush"
But they talked on and ON tel away
after midnight and the next day we'unu
was glad to put on our old shoes. They
say tho main buildin kiycrs 35 acres OF
ground, aud know in reason 1t do hits
the biggest house ever I seed, aud we'uns
walked ourselves plum down o tryin to
see ever thing in 1t, and haint seed all
yet; they say you mought stay q solid
month aud not see 1t all. Buddy he
lowed, LOOK here, If hits gwine to
take month to see it, it will have to 20
On.seed fur as I'm consarned, and we'ups
might as well 60 home, kase Pm about
busted now" It don't cost but 80 cts.
TO git in, but it costs you sight more to
git out, lessen you are sharp enough to
take your yittles along with you. II
you eat o little piece Of beef no bigger'n
your hand you got to pay tho worth of q
yeafling calf to git II, and aig cost you
as much as the hen that layed 1t. The
cheapest thing you git here is the ride on
the street kar elk miles out thar for q
nickle. But It's turrible big show and
pays you for gwine; you see folks from
all over the world, and Iinnery meets
kinnery that haven't saw one another for
years, and it makes 'em glad aud happy,
and you see things you never seed or
dreamp Of afore In your life, aud when
night comes you can shut your eyes and
see 1t all over agin. We'uns all tried tc
stick together kase its monstrous cas- to
git lost. You can be right in twenty foot
of anybody aud loso 'em, and If they git
lost from you, you might as we'll try to
find needle in q hay stack as to look for
'em. We'un's nil got scattered from one
another the very first day, and Cousin
Jake Corban he called us IGNORANCE
Abroad" He thinks he's mighty smart.
We'uns had been.a braggin too that
we wasn't q gwine to git lost. We had
seed so many folks huntin around for
ther crowd 1t made us stick closer togeth-
er. ! and Caledony helt to one another's
hands continuerly putty nigh oil the time
and we told Cousin Pink and Flurridy
Tennysy to do the same and to keep up
to we'uns, would try to keep up to buddy
and pap--but 1t was like tryin to keep
up to steam en- gyne to keep up with
pap, he putty nigh run his legs OF o
tfyin to find Mr.. Director General Burke
-he had ruther saw him than tho show.
Cousin Pinks Sunday shoes had riz a
corn on her left foot and blister on her
right and her aud Flurridy got away
yander behind we'uus-and Cousin Pink
she stopped whar they sell cider and
Flurridy she come O huntin for me and
Cal and got lost. We'uns missed 'em
and Gal lowed she'd go back to find 'enl
and streaked off after gal with coat
on like cousin Pink's aud struck up with
cousin Jake and forgot all about cousin
Pink, and Flurridy and ME too. We'uns
was all lost and all hands hunt;n for
t'other, and when found cousin Pink
she was eatin of ginger cake and q
cryin fitin to kill herself, and lowed she
was harngry and wanted to 60 homo and
stay thar when she got thar. She had
been ever whars huntin for US, aud q
akin of ever body she met if they had
saw anything Of Betsy Hamilton like
folks knowed Betsy Hamilton from Polly
Hopkins or Sal Simmons or anybody
else, and while we sot thar all our gang
come up. mought have knowed they
would come around thar, kase the last
head of 'em Is death on ginger cakes and
cider. And while we was o settin thar
q eatin gal passed by huptin for her
brother, and little boy huntin for his
pap, and woman stopped and axed
Have you'uns saw anything of man
with black hair and red whiskers?" Yes
we had saw about a hundred, but we
couldn't tell her which away they had
went no more'n the wind. "Well," says
she, have you saw q woman with BLACK
bonnet on, she wasn't a very good lookin
woman" ,N.'dt'AF" ~
Yes we had saw about thousand of
them sort, but didn't know one from
tother. The poor critter was lost from.
her crowd end no body knowed bettern'n
we'ans how she felt. We'uns all clung
together after that and Cal she hearn
come foike say we'uns was from the
country and wondered how they knowed.
Cousin Pink's corns is better, but she
run her head in glass show case yistiddy
lookin at some birds and broken the
glass and nearly busted her head wide
open. '+' f-''
I'll tell you moro next time. yi.s;t'-ts
Betsy HAMILTON.