Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-05-03

lump o'grease. So he jest give Bill
an Colfax the wink, an said:
That's all I got of it-picked 1t up
down there to that cove. Good to sof-
ten up your boots with
Yes says the scientific feller.
good to start a bank with
"They warn't no more said, but
when the steamer got up to Rockland
the cap'n said as how they wouldn't
be goin' over to Deer Isle jest then,
havin' bizness elsewhere. Lonzo. he
thought he knew where. Watchin' his
chance he got the boat alongside an
the three boys dropped into her an
to keep that lump o. grease kivered
up, while 'Lonzo he went uptown to
see his brother-in-law, who was
doctor. The doc he came down and
looked at the stuff and the minute he
set eyes on to 1t he threw up his hands
an, says he:
"'Git that there stuff outen that
boat soon's you kin grab 1t an fetch
It up to the Office. That's worth
more'n the hull O. Deer Isle. It's am
bergrease'
well, to cut long story short,
those three boys they got $4,000 apiece
outen that there lump of taller. The
money paid off the morgidge held
against the Richardson place by the
savings bank, bought the three master
Amelia and set the three boys up
housekeepin' with three O. the best
girls on Deer Isle.
Yes. that was luck-good luck.
But about t'other lump o. taller it was
different. That was the one picked
up over to Heering Gut by Elbridge
Tozier. He ran foul Of 1t while he
was standin' In dory longside O. his
vessil, a-paintin' of her. Saw the
stuff two or three hours fore he pick
ed 1t up an thought it was jest surf or
froth. When he poked his brush into
1t an found it was kind O. sticky ne
jest thought he'd daub a handful Of
| 1t into an open seam In the schoon-
ers topsides. 1t stuck fust rate, and
then, with the stuff right up under his
nose, he began to smell it. Took the
whole lump home to his wife, think
ing she might know what 1t was, be-
ms she'd gone to Buckport seminary
two years. She didn't know, but the
drug clerk that boarded with them
did What you daubed into that
seam, says he, Is wuth more'n your
hull darned old schooner. Git back
an scrape it off'n hers quick's you
can git there!'
"Well. Tozier he got somewheres
bout $4,000 out o. that lump O. taller,
an 1t jest spoilt him. He, sold his. ves-
sci and quit goin' jest when freights
was high an goin' higher. an bought
himself lot O. lean geared hosses an
rubber wheeled gigs, with which he
went a-kitin' over the hull state o
Maine, to Bangor and Lewiston an
Monroe an everywhere, takin' In all
the hoss trots advertised In the pa
tpers. He had hosses that could trot
lin 2.25 and hosses that could pace In
j2.1S, but somehow or other those city
Jockeys would get the weather gauge
Of him most every time, an his crit
ters never paid any dividends. What
with fancy riggin' for the hosses an
a-payin' the railroads for a-cartin' OF
'em round, an the cost Of a sportin'
life gin'rally, Elbridge has now got
about to the bottom Of him he was
finishin' fifth in the ESQ class, an his
wife was thinkin' Of takin' in SEWN.
"Yes, SIR it's jest as said. Moneys
the maxim O. some folks an the ruin
alton O. more. Some keeps on an even
keel an takes solid comfort, while
others slops over an spiles everything,
an more'n that loses their likin' for
hard work. It's all 'cordin' to how
man kerries sail"-Bangor, Me-, Let
ter.