The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-06-05

of them"
Morton grinned and said nothing.
The only member of the Burnett
family who had not Joined in the ar
raignment of the neighbors was Alice,
six years of age. She knew all about
the feud and shared in the suspicious
Of her mother, but at:presenteshe was
too busy with supper. @
The Deakins lived next door, and
although there was dividing fence it
had not kept the two families apart.
In the year during which the two
households had dwelt side by side
there 6adsbeen d agrowing enmity. Yet
Mrs Burnett had,never spoken;a word
to- Mrs Deakin, and hershusband
knew nothing of Mr.. Deakin except
that he worked with his hands for .
living and spent great many of his
evenings atshome. 1 ~ 81 -
It would have been rather difficult
for either the Burnetts or the Deakins
to explain how the feud started, but
It was operated from the start through
the children.
There were two Deakin children,
Lawrence, or Larry, aged ten, and
little Willie, who, at the tender age
>of three, had learned to regard the
Burnett tribe with scorn and hatred
and suffer, to some degree, under the
indignities heaped upon his family by
that arch fend of juvenility, Morton
Burnett.
For when the Deakins sat around
the supper table and cast up the ac-
counts Of the day it was Larry who
posed as the prosecuted and abused
child, while Morton Burnett was pic
tured as an infant Of dark intents,
headed straight for the Bridewell. :.
eff I was man. Tom Deakin, "
said the wife, s'I'll warrant you I'd go
over to that house and give notice
that things are simply going too far.
Today that boy got up on the fence
and called Lawrence all kinds of
names. s.: &C.
she said that his mother said that
ma didn't have clothes Mt to wear,
.luggested Lawrence; VINO aaa Deguna ?
TO breathe g nard M ourlng tne reo1tai OF OF
his grievances: & sass s (
.AnyHayS ! don't try to make my,
nelf look Like a.peacock every time !
start to church, {, said Mrs. Deakin.
This comparison of Mrs. Burnett
tickled the children, and they laughed
immoderately. Tom Deakin restrained
them with a quiet "tut, tut" and
eaid that the properw way to get along
was to pay no attention to the neigh
bors.
"T dike4toek know how you can do
il" saidshis wifi feasssThat boyis up to
some mischief every hour ofsthe day,
and his mother seems to encourage
him in everything he does. de throws
things over into our yard, leases Will
lie and makes faces at me. /"
"Next time I see him pick on Willie
I'll give him another licking" sug.
gested Larry. ss1f go @l'5s
"You'll do nothing of the kind"
exclaimed his mother. "Don't you
remember the talking; to / gave You
the other time you had that fight with
him 2"
Lawrence remembered the mild re-
'buke, and his inward resolution was
not changed. Tom Deakin went tor
his pipe, oppressed with the thought
that he had been very unlucky in his
selection of neigh hbors.
These complaints had come to him
day after day from the downtrodden
members Of his family.
The feud had grown from q thous-
and aggravating circumstances.
Suppose Morton Burnett to be on
the fence. His mother would open
the back door and say loud enough to
make herself heard through the open
windows Of the Deakin house "Morty,
got down from iaa thae 5,e dence! haven Z
tcld you ABOUT tnat
g, Mls' DSaAln @ Tooiu hsar ara: aau unael M
stana. inen sne "ouiI ~ malS nel ea,, op,
poleunlty 20 appear Oh 'ne DacA s'oop
ana retaliaee. LII ,o,,on
ln summer !, sime, % MneI " po.u ~ momen t;a
were out OF la9ors muen ol 1Ine .lme,
t1ey ocoasionaly e1ceangea glaacea
Tnlon we're more sisnineai9' 'nan any
tn1ng @ tney coui1 pe.. nave saiu. ~. o,. ho,
Maen Mrs. Daras.. asu. R9s Msa ons ns.h;n h;a
wasn,ng sie kew her and .nd0 oonnt;ne @ % The
mas ,as mseS nf n;Iiow ei sI;ns a anJ tahIecfoths
neWIe, WIZ ~ NJ. R.0T Rmrpott ,o Dc ooms tn The
hool door va, and called C ont. "Come
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, hioe, :a., anu p!acOe 49, ~ aan;na ~
1Sssoni nS ""' eqa,,ssu' qSL. I.mc ~ 10y e eot "
Mrs' OeaAin Ana, me nals I,,. = wv, Wv,
Sage a'4 organ sna ~ =" uowr. Uur "ou0e' Du' 'O0
n@s1n NS nS, auS - s. :.e,-u
Mrs. M Deakll nae P ireauelS.y ,nlulm, ~ i.aa
eS Soa LON asaamd snao IIe tb;ns 0'saa ""'
cheap seoonunauI mn rnlDeI Ill:
One day, when Mrs. Deakln camt
home from a 1uneral IN Ise;ea a covered car. "a,
mage, tnere vas eols'elna.,Oa aaao1a IL are ene
RnTnaff fam4iv.. and eaCC000ES were