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name of Todd.

name Of Todd.
Nancy thought we'll of them both
and was at a great loss 10 know which
to accept.
Finally she concluded to take it to
the Lord; so going into the barn one
day she prayed somewhat as follows:
|"Oh Lord, please to direct me III this
my dilema!-which of the two shall |
take. Lathers or Todd?'
Now it happened that just at that
time Jacky was coming along a pain
that led close by the barn, and hear
ing Nancy's prayer, he said-"liac
Lathers, hac Lathcrs for Lathers hath
iva kline and Todd hath name when
in plain English means-Have Lath-
ers, have Lathers. for Lathcrs hath
two COWS and Todd hath none. And
50. believing that the Lord had ans
wered her prayer, she married Lath-
ers, and they soon afterwards came 10
America, and settled in this country.
have heard il said of Old Nancy
that on one occasion finding a raj
| which had fallen into a bowl OF cream.
after fishing it out with a spoon, she
took it by the head and drawing 1t
through her thrumb and fore-finger,
threw it away, saying you brot nath-
i1,g vie We and yell take nathing vie
lye."
The late Judge Thomas Thomson
was, for a long time before becoming
|, Judge, a practicing attorney at the
Abbeville bar, and cotcmporaneous
with Mr.. Burt.
He was a very modest man, as quick
TO blush as was any young girl, ut
that time, and was readily confused
when made the butt of a joke.
| remember, Mr.. Burt disconcerting
the Judge very much by telling his
| experience with him while attending
a meeting O fthe Supreme Court in Co.
Ilumbia on one occasion.
1t seems that the hotels were very
much crowded and Mr.. Burt and the
Judge had to occupy the same room
Int had separate beds. Mr.. Burt said
hat in a short while after they had
retired, or gone to bed, Tommy. began
snoring at a terrible rate and kept it
10 the entire night, so much so that
The, Burt, got no sleep at all. The next
| lay, Tommy, having gotten through
| with his business, left for home, leaV-
ing Mr.. Burt sole occupant OF the
room the second night. Being tired
| md very sleepy, from having been de-
yrived of sleep the night before by
reason, as he said, of Tommy's snor-
ne, he retired very early thinking to
| yet a good nights sleep. but to his
| great disappointment he couldn1
| sleep at all and the reason for it was
le missed Tommy's snoring.
In the early fall of 1861, | became {
| member of the company of whic!
| Judge Thomson was the Captain. VIC
| we're at first sent to Sullivan's lslanc
md was the ~ncucleus around whicl
vas formed the End Rife Regiment.
In the following spring the Tcgi
nent was sent down on the coas'
lbout Adams run.
Shortly afterwards Captain Thorn,
sons Company was detached from the
regiment and sent to guard a brigade
connecting Johns Island and Ward
law Island.
At that time l held the distinguished
POSITION of Corporal. l remember the
first night after we arrived at the
Mace to which our Company was as
signed, Captain Thomson took charge
ii the guards consisting of some l.
?r Is men and l was Corporal of tn"
guard.
The guards were changed every
TWO hours and when not on duty &C.
|cupied an old out house in which
there were a lot of shucks.
That night there was a fellow on
guard whose name was Beasly and
his post was very near the waters
edge.
A regiment of Yankees were sta
tened on a point of land, at a little
village called Rockville, which was IL
plain sight.
This fellow Beasly was the most
nervous, eXcitable person ever saw
and every and then he would call
for the "COrp0ral OF the guard" and
CT course 1 would have to go to see
what was the matter.
When l would get to where he was
he would have the same tale to tell
that he had distinctly heard the
splashing of the paddles of a boat in
tie water, and could see lights on the
boat.
After being called by him several
times and getting pretty tired of it,
resolved to thoroughly investigate the
matter and on dong so, | found that
what he had taken for the sound OF
the paddles of a boat, being rowed-
was the tide coming in and the lights
which he had seen were nothing more
than the phosphoresent lights to be