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

hurts me so bad cant; them shoes has
riz corn on my little toe-now I'm
gwine to lay my hair pins right here on
this table, and I don't want none of you
gals to take 'em in the mornin."
ri wish you'uns would make haste and
git to bed. Pm awful tired and sleepy.
II amt bit sleepy, but that old black
coffee is enough to wake the seven sleep
ers; 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'uns
was glad to put on our old shoes. They
say the main buildin kivers 35 acres of
ground, and 1 know in reason it do; hits
the biggest house ever I seed, and we'uns
walked ourselves plum down tryin to
see ever thing in it, and haint seed all
yet; they say you mought stay a solid
month and not see it all. Buddy be
lowed, "Look a here, if hits gwine to
take month to see it, it will have to go
on.seed fur as I'm consarned, and we'uns
might as we'll go home, kase Pm about
busted now" It don't cost but 80 cts.
to git in, but it costs you sig ght more to
git out, lessen you are sharp enough to
take your vittles along with you. II
you eat little piece of beef no bigger'n
your hand you got to pay the worth of a
yearling calf to git ii, and a aig cost you
as much as the hen that layed it. The
cheapest thing you git herois the ride on
the street kar six miles out thar for 8
nickle. But its turrible big show and
pays you for gwine; You see folks from
all over the world, and kinnery meets
kinnery that haven't saw one another for
years, and it makes 'em glad and 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 it all over agin. We'uns all tried to
stick together kase its monstrous easy to
git lost. You can be right in twenty foot
of anybody aud lose 'em, and if they git
lost from you, you might as well try to
6nd needle in hay stack as to look for
'em. We'un's all 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 a gwine to git lost. We had
seed so many folks huntin around for
ther crowd it made us stick closer togeth-
er. and Caledony helt to one another's
hands continuerly putty nigh all 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 it was like tryin to keep
up to steam en-gyne to keep up with
pap, he putty nigh run his legs off a
tryin to find Mr.. Director General Burke
he had ruther saw him than the show.
Cousin Pinks Sunday shoes had riz a
corn on her left foot and blister on her
right and her and Flurridy got away
yander behind we'uns-and Cousin Pink
she stopped whar they sell cider and
Flurridy she come huntin for me and
Cal and got lost. We'uns missed 'em
and Cal lowed she'd go back to find 'em
and streaked off after gal with coat
on like cousin Pink's and struck up with
cousin Jake and forgot all about cousin
Pink, and Flurridy and me too. We'uns
was all lost, and all hands huntin for
t'other, and when found cousin Pink
she was eatin of ginger cake and q
cryin ftin to kill herself, and lowed she
was harngry and wanted to go home and
stay thar when she got thar. She had
been ever whars huntin for US, and 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. I 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 settin thar
eatin gal passed by huptin for her
brother, and little boy huntin for his
pap, and q woman stopped and axed
"Have you'uns saw anything of man
with black hair and red whiskers?" Yes
we had saw about hundred, but we
couldn't tell her which away they had
went no more'n the wind. "Well," says
she, "have you saw a woman with black
bonnet on, she wasn't very good lookin
woman"
Yes we had saw about thousand of
them sort, but didn't know one from
tosher. The poor critter was lost from
her crowd and no body knowed bettern'n
we'uns how she felt. We'uns all clung
together after that and Cal she hearn
some folks 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.
TIL tell you more next time.
~ BETSY HAMILTON,