The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-11-27
THE OLD RELIABLE REMEDY SINCE 1852
DR., THAGHER'S LIVER and BLOOD SYRUP
At your Druggist 25 and so cents.
At your Druggist, 25 and so cents.

'and mind you keep that boy at arms
length, for emphatically I'll not toler-
ate my servant girls courting with my
| son."
! Nancy tossed Ler head again and
flashed look at Mrs. Nelson. She
felt that she would like to deliver her.
self Of piece Of her mind. but poor
| Nancy likewise felt that if she spoke
she would say something hot and haSty.
for which she would certainly be sorry
! afterward, so wisely she restrained
herself. 4 hot blush orerspread her
cheeks. She thanked her mistress bit
! terly and whisked from her presence.
"Heighow Nancy sighed as she scrub
! bed big plunge churn in the dairy
! later on the same day.
"Heigho" was echoed back as from
a breast weighted with trouble.
! Nancy, startled, looked up and beheld
rakish. dashing fellow seated on one
Of the milk crooks which stood on the
table. He was laughing heartily at
the start he had given her.
Hello, Nancy" he said when he
| could.
Nancy had been more than half in
| clined to laugh at first, his countenance
was so humorous and his manner so
catching, but she remembered Mrs.
Nelson's warning, so she replied tart
ly:
Indeed an my name comes glib to
ye, doesn't it, or not:'
"By George, it does! Seems to me
like as if Ia known you, Nancy, for
the last so years"
"Well, the quicker ye get rid o that
notion the better. Who are ye, or what
are We, or what's yer business here?"
That's right. now. like that, Nan
cy. That's coming plank down to busi-
ness at once. Well. I'm Tommy. I'm
a harum scarum good for nothing-at
least so the old woman says, and she
should know-and my business here is
to court you"
Nancy flung the churn scrubber at
him by way of reply to his audacity,
and, Tommy caught it deftly. He dis
mounted from his position and, ap-
preaching Nancy. returned the brush
with mock bow. then turned to her
the back of his bent head, saying:
perhaps you would like to ease your
distressed mind by Furnishing Tommy"
Nancy without any delay drew him
across the head G smart whack OF the
brush, causing him to jump up with
yell and execute q good imitation OF
an Indian war dance around herself
and the churn, rubbing and scratching
the back Of his head the while.
That's for yer imperence." Nancy
said when he quieted.
"Oh, you duck. Shouldn't like to be
thrashed every day for just such
vision as your sweet self!'
"Tn troth," said Nancy, ''if ye provoke
me to 60 practicin my wrist on ye again
yell maybe find it's little O the Visions
about tor at least it's the sort o
vision that laives blisthers behind it,"
Nancy, mavourneen, it's who know
that, for already there's a blister on
my heart the size Of your shoe-the size
Of my own shoe, mean"
ssBe of, say. or I'll raise them the
size O. yer head-an that's big enough
on the ribs Of ye. Be of. | tell yer
'And can't go, tell your accom-
panied by such q travesty on an ogie
that Nancy was compelled to laugh.
"Tt wasn't enough for yer mother to
warn me against ye, l suppose. an tell
me the sort O. villain ye were an the
thricks ye do be up to-
Nancy, agrah, l wish the next time
you fnd my mother preaching against
courting you'd just only ask her quietly
! if she never did it herself and did she
get the man sent down from heaven in
a hand basket Of q morning"
"Go ask her yerself, ye rascal! Aren't
We every bit as big an as ugly as me to
do the business"
"Ah-h-h, Nancy, avilish!'
"Begone, for the common nuisance ye
arew And by means of very vigorous
assault on him with the scru5bing
brush Nancy whacked him out of the
door and slammed it in his face.
AS she got at her work again he was
| sending parting salute through the
keyhole:
ayes. Nancy. darling, I'm gone-gons
to patch together as best can the
smithereens of q smashed heart. With
that cruel brush Of yours you've made
very small pieces of it. If | Can get it
into any sort of presentasle order. I'll
be back for another court tomorrow.
Till then adieyS'
'aThen the divil go with ye!" Nancy
shouted.
90 purity boy indeed ye are" she
went on smilingly, soliloQuizing as she
wrought "a purity boy, troth. An
small wondher yer own mother had to
warn me against ye. If ye come to
keep me from work the mora, Pm
afeerd it isn't the scrubbin brush I'll
be usin on ye No; III be afther takin
to We somethin thrife weightier-
somethin that'll make ye Farm yer place
an keep it,
"Ee'S been interfering WIN Eou'
see, the rascal that he is"
It was Alexander, the bashful. who
surprised Nancy this time, Only Nancy
noted that. though solemn enough, he
did not look quite so bashful as he had
done in his mothers presence.
"Ha, ha, ha"' Nancy laughed. Not
bit Of interference, only just crackln
a joke to keep me from feelin home
sick. Intherferin! Hagh! Not him!
He wouldn't intherfere with mouse,
do believe. It's the gay heart an the
light wan he has, God bliss him.''
"And So" Alexander said. moving