The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-10-24
YOUNG LADIES' SMALL TALK.
Conversation Overheard on Hotel
Piazza.

Conversation Overheard on Hote
Piazza.
"What on earth did you do with my
needle, Lou?"
cit wasn't me. I had Lilies. Don't
pull the floss like that!'
"Can help it? Do move your chail
a little so I can get my feet up"
"Jen's shoes are just like yours!'
ssJen's shoes never saw the day they'd
look ike mine; nor Jen's feet, neither. ,
s'Just see how my hands are tanned.
The sun was blazing on the water"
"Yoa had gloves on.
81 hadn't
ssYou had, too. I saw them.
"What! Yesterday"
"Yes-yesterday."
'No such thing-not yesterday"
"Well, I've got eyes, | hope. When
We stood ON the pier there, before you
got into the boat you had on those long
brown chamois.
"That was Thursday"
cit was yesterday Maud, didn't Lii
have gloves on Yesterday"
81 guess you're thinking of me. I
wore old dark ones.''
"I'm positive Lii had gloves on when
We stood on the pier, anyway"
"No, that's mistake. I didn't really.
My brown gloves were in my gray coat
pocket. Honor bright"
"Oh, I suppose I've got to believe
you. must have been hallucinated
then, for certainly saw those gloves.
''No; you saw mine; your brains all
right so far, Nell. You mistook the
hands, that was all. :"
"There goes the Maggie. Who took
her out this morning?"
"That isn't the Maggie" J"
"Will Manning took her out. :"
"Of course it's the Maggie. I should
think ought to know the Maggie"
'You ought to, but you don't. That's
the Mystery"
"Ob, isten-the Mystery! It's the
Maggie
'sIt's the Mystery
SITS the Maggie and Will Manning.
He's got those Reilly girls on board. L
hope he'll steer them back to their ma
tive isle."
s.WilI Manning couldn't sail the
Maggie. He couldn't sail tub.
"He'd be mighty clever seaman if
he could, Miss Lii"
81 know I'd be awfully scared to go
out with him.
$50 would l."
81, too.''
81 wouldn't dare to go out with Will
Manning. Would you, Laura?"
., .. "Wen, that's too bad. He wants rs
all to go. He told me to ask my party,
and he'd run us down to Cliff House for
lunch"
"Oh, my, he didn't. Did he really?"
eyes, he did, and it's the iolliest place
for lunch-lots of Yale boys. But, of
course, if you are all afraid"
"Afraid?"
"Who's sfraid?''
s'There isn't any danger in the
Maggie"
'I'll co."
"I'm going"
''The idea of being afraid never
said T was.''
"Well, he's putting in now"
"Goody! sure's you live"
"Let's go down to the pier.
eOh, let'sl''
Rustic, scamper, general stampede and
grateful silence.
Proverbs from the Talmud.
The cat and the rat make peace over
a carcass.
Hospitality is an expression of divine
worship.
Rabbi Jochanan said: "He who gives
becomes rich"
Commit a sin twice and it will not
seem to thee sin.
If thou tellest thy secret to three per-
sons ten know it.
Do not to others what you would not
have others do to you.
Rabbi EGazar said: "Charity is more
than sacrifices"
Many colts skin is fastened to the
saddle its mother bears.
He who increaseth his flesh but multi
plieth food for the worms.
A simple light answers as well for a
hundred men as for one.
The camel desired horns, and his ears
were taken from him.
Two pieces of coin in one bag make
more noise than hundred.
The doctor who prescribes gratuitously
gives worthless prescription.
The rose grows among the thorns.
Natin, Cope scope sub sepe crescit.)
The place honors not the man; 'tis
the man who gives honor to the place.
Thy friend has friend, and thy
friends friend has friend; be discreet.
The thief who finds no opportunity to
steal considers himself an honest man.
Man sees the mote in his neighbor's
eye, but knows not the beam in his own.
Rabbi Jose said: 81 never call my wife
wife, but ,home, for she makes my
home"
Sad Story from Lexington.
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