Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-03-30
PEA ridge and
PUMPKIN BOTTOM.
Story Of John Eastman and the Dumb
i Bull.
HOW BILL PERKINS WON SAL JENKINS.
Historic, Humorous Incident of the
b, Long Ago in Fort Mill Township
Cruel Ways Put Up Practical Joke
7 on Timid Swain, and Get Him
lauohed Out of Countenance.
Ie ENQUIRER, Jan. 20. 1859.

| on Timid Swain, and Get Him
| Laughed Out of countenance.
Yorkville Enquirer, Jan. 20, 1859.
Mr.. Editur-Pve bin long time low
in tn tel you what happined up on Big
Sugar Creek between John Eastman
and the Dumb Bull, and how l gut In
tn hit tn. AS hits bin a long time ago,
land John and me haint bin so mitey
said nothin about 1t afore now. But as
I've mooved up over the North Caro-
Ina line. and as peepul says and talks
purity much as they pleas eny how up
here, l reckon John wont think hard
Inv me eff | wus tn tel hit on him.
Wei, you see, John and /, when we
wur young. we wur considerable
sparks amongst the gals in the digglns
roun Big Sugar Creek, but we both
got to hankerin after old widder Jen-
kins gal Sal, who wus as spruce and
lbuxom a little piece as ever trod In
Ishue Leather or wore pink ribbin. An
Sal and had almost gut tu be sworn
lfreends, til John got to mucklin horns
with me, and as he was ID little better
llookin fed man than l wur, John was
lrather cramin hit on tn me; fur the
Hast mite we met at the widder Jenkins,
Ii wur badly chawed, fur Sal and the
fold omon both talked ,pesky heap tu
IJohn at the supper table-they almost
tchoked him with 'tention and kept a
sistin fur him to heve his cup filled
agin and tn take out sum more of the
Icollards; while they never sed wun
time, bill Perkins make your supper
or hev another cup of butter-milk.'
land when l furst sot down l didn't
thave much Nv an appetite, but / CESS
I ct 1t with a commin stumake jes fur
tspite.
I And arter supper wur over, and the
table red up, the old omon and Sal both
got on ech side NV John jes to cut my
| fethers wus. and talked and cracked
jokes tn him all the time, while l sot In
luther corner with wun fut on top NV
| luther, pickin dobbia outen the cracks
and even John mitey juberously all the
| time, a feeln like l wus sent for tn
quiltin and cudent cum. The old ONION
| was in CRATE gale talkin tl him and
akin him about his nue. house. and If he
wus a gwine tn hev a portfolio tn hit
Hike squire Gilkin's nue. house, and ef
| he had a guide crop Nv yung pigs
cummin on, and eff his hens wur fechin
up meny young chickens; and then Sal
primped hur face, a lookin as pleasin as
a. .basketsuv chips. and axed. John ef he
wud take a setten Nv MANS dominick-
ur hen eggs home with him in the
mornin. And he sed he wud and thank
hur fur EN- tu; and feelin a little ro-
manceful went and sed he wud set them
under his yaller legged luvly- -cacklin-
speckly hen on the highest pinnacle NV
fodder Nv his barn loft, and when they
Matched out he wud take al the care
i'm the world Nv EN- fur hur luvely sake
tn remcmbur hur; and the old ONION
sorter miZed her countenance and Sal
kinder blushed and thanked him-and
then John rolled his eyes round on me
in kind Nv hyfutin way, and looked
as proud as a young rooster with his
fust spurs, and they looked mitely con-
serquental NV Mr.. Eastman and l cud
see them turn thur noses up at me like
they smelt wet pups, and l sOt and
wished / wur sum whar else. But L
thought to myself, as Deacon Brinley
uster say-"every dog has his own
day" But thot Sal wur treaten me
mighty unscruplusly, as she ulster STICK
tu me like a sick kitten tn hot brick.
But since Johns grand many had dide
and left him the Partridge place ana
| the PuAkin Bottoms, and couple or
sows and litters. thur wus no body but
Mr.. Eastman a livin, and Bill Perkins
wus nowhere.
Well things kept goin on tn Johns
glory and salvation, and he wur tax
tn on and a rantin about with Sal
heap wus en- ever | dun. And John
hears Nv a big show up in Sharlot, and
so he gifts his daddy's old gig aid tuck
Sal up to see hit, and the old ONION wur
powerful uneasy all the time they wur
gone, for fear them ugly animals mout
git out of their boxes and hurt som
body. Well they cum home safe, and
then sich a talkin about the show and
Sharlot-as / wur at the old omons
when they cum. Sa! sed they put up
at a great big brick house whar they
had a niggcr at your heels every time
yu turaed round, and every man ana
oman had a different room tn sleep in,
and that the men and wimmen dldh [
see wun anuther only when they cum
down inter a big room full Nv fine
things. and that nobody didn't sleep In
this room, and they called hit the par
LEY! Widder Jenkins sed her darter
Sal was mitey 'complished tn recon-
member and notise all things; ana she
sed she must git me tn rive her sum
clab- boards and run a partition in her
house so she wud have wun end FUR
the wimmen to sleep in, and the tuther
for the men folks; and so rite thar she
Ilmp!Oyeu me lu uu lHc JoD, HhS "' -
wernt fit fur nothin else. Well so
you SIC | luved Sal, and | wud du eny
thing tn be about whar she wus, fur
| luved hur so wud stand and look al
her and then wud look at the place l
seed her stand last. And so you may
guess | felt squeamish about the giz-
IZard when things wur agoin on In this
Iway. And to make me feel wuss. Johh
wus n rantin and covOrtin and te!lln
hit all over Piddleburg, that he had
lnow cut me out, and that the old wid-
der had hired me tn rive clab-boards'
and scd | warn't fit fur nothin else;
that. he wus agoin tn put portfolio tu
his nue. house, and jist at that partic-
ular time. Pea-Ridge and Punkin
Bottoms wud hardly hold him.
Arter the show in Sharlot, wurd cum
that the lion had broken outen his den
up thar, and wus on his way down Big
Suggar Creek toards our settlement,
land the men folks, and the wimin folks
cnori,Ily vur DOwerfully dreden Nv