The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-07-03

We laughed and she looked daggers.
| was satisfied she was not the author
of Maryland, My Maryland.
We reached the goal OF our hopes,
the brick house. 1 raped on the
door and stylish, upperish colorcd
lady, dressed in the fashion, answered
the knock" We asked for the gen.
tleman Of the house. She left us and
In few moments rather slender but
finely featured. we'll dressed and cul-
tured gentleman faced US in the door
way. We requested food. With
"ies, certainly" and smile he in
vited US in the house. We we're con-
Quoted into an elegantly furnished
room on the right of the entrance and
invited to be seated until our food was
ready.
He stated that there was only some
cold food in the house, but that we
should be welcome. He left us then
and myself and Pinson were cougratu-
lating ourselves on our luck and in
such stylish mansion, when, horror
of horrors, a young lady entered the
room. Beautiful-so beautiful. I
turned red and reddcr, as thought of
the contrast between us in personal
appearances. Pinson and myself were
dirty, sure, and she eyed us as though
Barnum had employed us to travel
with the Confederate army, as some
specimen of the genus homo from an
other woriu. l felt 80 abashed that I
started to leave, but Pinson caught
me by the arm and persuaded me to
keep my seat. I then tried to talk to
her, as means Of relief and distrac.
tion from our personal appearances,
but she would not talk, but she "look-
ed" Evidently we were curiosities.
Tue fame Of The Confederate soldier
had no doubt excited her admiration,
and the rusty appearance of the TWO
before her had turned her admiration
into wonderment, for she, no doubt,
could not reconcile her idea of glory
as clad in dirt and rags.
She had evidently concluded that
the rebels were an army Of tramps,
beggars, mendicants, fit only for Gu.
rios. Her lips were sealed. I sat
there, perhaps an hour, in suspense.
I would rather have been Illuminating
on an empty stomach in camp. After
awhile the gentleman, father Of the
lady, appeared at the door and invited
us in to supper. The girl sat near the
dining room door and doggcdly kept
her seat as we passed by, so as to see
how we looked from the rear. was
all shame and bushes, for she then
saw, not the Confederate banner, but
the white (or rather Yellow badge of q
weary Willie. AS soon as we passed
her, sho got up and acted as 6le closer
that is, followed on behind. We
passed around the dining table to the
right, faced the grub and took our
seats. The lady faced the grub and
took seat directly opposite to US.
No doubt she expected to see us help
ourselves with our hands and use our
fingers for tongs and forks. She soon
saw that we were used to the civilized
way Of using spoons, knives and forl ..
She then eyed us closely 90 we
helped ourselves from the different
articles of food, for We had evidently
convinced her that as eaters we were
not ordinary tramps. Ihad got to the
point that intended to yebuka her
for having taken US for heathens, by
making her face a famine for twelve
months. intended to, IL possible,
eat up all they had, or would give US,
and then ask for more. We emptied
our plates in hurry, and the gentle
man who sat at the head Of the table
kept the lady of color busy visiting
the kitchen and the pantry. She
stirred about lively, and we ate ditto,
and we had no intention of getting
tired.
Finally our hearts softened. II
would be base ingratitude to eat them
out Of house and home, and besides
VIC would need some stomach space tt
hold air to keep us upright SO that w
could get back to camp.
AS we he'd eaten up all there was OF
the table and all that had beer
brought in from the kitchen we start
cd to leave. The head Of the famil,
requested Us to le. him have ou
haversacks, which we did, and h,
made the lady in black fill them t,
the brim. With many thanks we lef
the house, and the young lady watch
cd until our "cotton tails" faded ava
in the darkness.
Not long after this we camped jus