The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1908-03-13
WICKS' WATERLOO.
(By Arthur rlorrison.)
"ln the Metropolln Magazine"

hnd that In the mental perspect.
I've OF most people the days of X ent
ana Essex smugglers lie very far back,
"h''e IN my own they stand surprising.
iy near. 1t Is habit of mind, and moth
ing more Those days we're gone be-
fore mine began; but not only have l
seen and talked with gray old SNUG
glers on the Essex coast: have even
tasted the white brandy of such aston
Ishing strength which they b-oug Int
over III The light "tubs" OF three or
four glllons capacity tasted it on
my twenty-first birthday, ,fory years
and more after it had been SNUG =
gled; and il came from an unsus-
pected secrc store Of Robosilobobry
Dove, who thus deigned to honor nv
majority The treat was accompani
eo with much sage advice on my en-
TRY into manhood, as as proper from
this Old man of ninety and rather
more, who had fought the French
all at as Il boy; but lecture twice as
loug. from Que in no such way epdear-
TO me as was lie, could not have MARI
ed the memory OF that amazing drink
so mild and mellow and soft, albeit n
oelu'lon of four times as much water
was needed. to tame its streugth II
zone Is asked fer dates by haters OF
}arl'hme tic nhen it is enough to sey
that have already written at length
OF the last isolated attempt to run a
cargo of brandy on the Essex coast.
winch was a failure, in the year 1854:
anc that the trade was falling out of
use decade earlier.
50 it happened that my majority
was celebrated from What was prob
aoly The very last tub Of run" spirits
remaining in Essox perhaps in all
England: and the ta'e which nevc r
ial'ed to season Roboshoberys moral
oisc'urse was on this occasion the
tale OF the rIn-one OF the last syc-
ees ful vcntures-which brought over
TINS very tub and about four score
more
"lf I'd ha' been a men o. money.
SIR, D." the old man said II mlght ha'
given YOU birthday compliment OF
grctter cost; but count it might ha'
been easier forgotten. An II YOU
want still more to remember it by
III tell zee this: the bringing oy,r O.
that very brandy was the cause a. the
very irSt teetotal meetin' I'm EsSey
Nothin' to he proud OF p'raps, but a
curiosity; an it's my belief that if
! such stuff as this could In come over
with no hindrance all along, there'd
never ha' been a teetotal meetin' in
fsHcA w CIiS very DAY.
fear must apologiz. for NV old
TREND. His was an earlier age be =
fore many Of our modern morals ha d
had been inveutcd, At tie same time
with the taste and scent OF that in
effab.e white br ndy present to my
senses was nightly disposed 10
agree With his conjecture.
Il "as after the new coastruard
was fprncd as that came over the
old ntan wcut ON, : and it was most
~ the new coastRuard as helpcd to kin
smngglin. 1t went pretty ec thongh.
her"ooht tor some years we'd get a
Old ctief officer, good deal too fat
tor his business, and Leigh windows
was cleaned with Dutch gin right up
To forty years ago. But just abou
hllS time there came a mighty smart
an kdowin' chief buatman this wav
promoted from somewhere right of II
Poole. thinX they said. His nam
we're Wicks-Archihald Wicks, to b q
quite compicte-and he were SO very
mighty smart as to be very near az
smart as he thought himself, and that
were SAYING a deal He hadn't done
with promotion, had Master Archie
.cIicf boatman as he were. You see il
were time of changes in the service,
an twas thought promJ.iors might
bc made higher still for some men:
they might he chief officers, twas |
r"morcd' or anything; an if such pro
motions were to come To pass Master
Arcme made up his mind to have one
o The first. II the chief officer Iiked |