Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-03-04

| you should be having from me II 1t
weren't for the dustiness of It, Wait
| till we come to the board walk"
She had some big pink roses at her
waist.
Indicating these, he answered, I'm
the meantime, l know very we'll lad
that would be blithe to accept pretty
token of any lady's high esteem"
"But you have one already, very
beautiful one." She gave him genial
up and down glance from head to foot,
half quizzical and. half applauding, but
so quick he scarcely saw it, and he was
glad he had resurrected the straw hat
with the youthful ribbon and his other
festal vestures. "And very becoming
flower q white rose is," she continued,
though 1 am bold girl to be barney
ing with young gentleman I met no
longer ago than last night"
"But why shouldn't you blarney with
gentleman when you began by saw
ing his life?'
Especially when the gentleman had
the politeness to gallop about the coun-
ty with me tucked under his arm"
She stood stlIl and laughed sorrry, but
consummately, and her eyes closed
tight with the mirth Of it. She had
taken one of the roses from her waist,
and as she stood holding it by the long
stem its cool petals lightly pressed her
lips.
"You may have it-in exchange" she
said. He bent down to her, and she
fastened her rose in place Of the white
one in his coat. She did not ask him,
directly or indirectly, who had put the
white one there for him. She knew by
the way it was pinned that he had
done it himself. "Who is it that ev'ry
morning brings me these lovely flow-
ers? she burlesqued as he bent over
her.
"AIr. Windy" he returned. 81 will
point him out to you. You must see
him and Mr. Bodeffer, who is the old.
est inhabitant and the crossest of Car
low"
"Will you present them to me?"
"No; they might talk to you and
take some of my time with you away
from me-"
Her eyes sparkled into his for the
merest fraction Of second, and she
laughed. Then she dropped his lapel,
and they proceeded. She did not put
the white rose in her belt, but carried
It.
The square was heaving with a JOS
tling. moving, good natured, happy and
constantly increasing crowd that over
flowed OH Main street in both direc.
tions and whose good nature augment
ed in the ratio that its size increased.
The streets were q kaleidoscope OF
many colors. an every window open.
ing on Main street or the square was
filled with eager faces. BY 9 o'clock
I'LL the windows Of the courthouse In
the center Of the square were occupied.
Here most of the damsels congregated
to enjoy the spectacle Of the parade.
and their swains attended, posted at
coigns Of less vantage behind the Ia
dies. Some Of the faces that peeped
from the windows Of the dark, old,
shady courthouse were pretty, and
some Of them were not pretty, but near.
ly all of them were rosy checked, and
all were pleasant to see because Of the
good cheer they kept.
Here and there. along the sidewalk
below, a father worked his way through
the tllrong, a licorce bedaubed cherub
w one arm, his coat (bornp with long
tnoughl on the other, followed by a
mother, with the other children hang
ing to her skirts and tagging exasper.
atingly behind, holding red and blue
toy balloons and delectable candy
batons of spiral striped peppermint In
tightly closed, sadly sticky fingers. A
thousand cries rent the air-the stroll
ing mountebanks and gypsying booth
merchants, the peanut venders, the
boys with palm leaf fans for sale, the
candy sellers, the popcorn peddlers, the
italian with the toy balloons that float
Ike cluster Of colored bubbles above
the heads Of the crowd and the bal
looms that wall like q baby; the red
lemonade man, shouting in the shrill
voice that reaches everywhere and en-
dures forever: "Lemo'! Lemo'! Five
glass! Ice cole lemo'! Five cents,
nickel, a half a dime, the twentieth
potofadollah! Lemo'! Ice cole lemo'!"
all the vociferating harbingers Of the
circus crying their wares. Timid
youths in shoes covered with dust
through which the morning polish but
dimly shone and unalterably hooked
by the arm to blushing maidens bought
recklessly of peanuts, Of candy, Of pop
corn, Of all known sweetmeats, per-
chance, and forced their way to the
lemonade stands, and there, all shyly.
silently slipped the crimson stained am
brosia. Everywhere the hawkers din
ned, and everywhere was heard the
plaintive sQuawk Of the toy balloon.
TO BE CONTINUED.