The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-11-05
For Home and Farm.
"a SORT OF NorIoN.D


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We takn about moonshiners le that might
Re Re besrn they are, reckon. and a sight
MQe ,nan they ~ they're people, and ths difference
~, t~as them and other people as most '.ould calculate
~ true they're all law weakers but they think unfair
Some 81 then do, and others don't parrpry
I once. andI went in for it strong
knew twant on the level aid wrong;
was tolerabls free and my ways.
In as fins Of mortal made;
Twas rather riky business, but paid ~
Till quit of sudden. You heardn
How colHs to quit mOonhnn. for hh,eat ,,
The secret OF the matter @ human soul.
Well, you e a ady-old fellow look 4. herr,
~ M tough to talk this and if words
Like foolhneAs remember that what I'm tyin' say
And % h y a S a ns Was S young and Pee aaa
"ih eS that seemed to soften fellow thoh through
She herr mother from Louisville her home
And boarded through the summer with Enira strome;
% nhats how come to know her for sil slcane
Together at his about the place
Almost before / knew it WAS dead in love with
OF course knew folly for nountainoer like me
10 look 50 far above you see
couldn't have tomorrow keen
In The monn sun from Hhnin and wahn sleep
Besides abe took TO me kindly. and days
S poasa as 'a na ses like an % as my rough % and
ot mischief and Of goodness that all the world got.
And 50 in her company it wasn't very to1p
Ta got in the of shinkin' that wrouE
beg begun to be uneasy aud to feel dissatisfied.
And mean and low and sheepish, Whenever side;
And somehow didn't belong to the ban
And hatia' my luck that wasn't deenef sost Of man
My work interest. losih mighty fast;
And after waitn and wnin'. uude mind at las
To quit for good the quit it Quick
Thv Tss . aas boys s,s dead AGAINST and made kick
Till knocked oo's mouth in condition nnsb.
Vel. the ehded and she went back to town
And l "come too" OF o sudden, md settled down
Unsailfed and lonsih' for things eouldnt be-
For OF course knew that could belong me-
In the spring Iasnt to the city, buy supplies
And KNOWN me couldn't keep r. my ey,,
From Aarfn tha, ever ehnneed 10 meet
Just barely hopin maybe to see her N -
Bot no; had finished business, staid in town.
N Maa in on. and e0n and Snlin the streets an up and
So u took and fSed and started isas
To call outright upon her. .s.
tFaf Twas nicely fixed up place
And when stepped in the paror Why there little
With OF three fellows. As O abe sight
OF me. her face turned whtish yt o
And tsf0re told her - g
You wish. sir to fatherf He rule
ls = tsT 70 MS basis tsssa si-t's
H:aHk street qpod morning .,
Z ~ I thanked her said hoped tina. she
Would pardon my in'eupton W Then soped outside
And walked the treets till midnight
Next day left the city, and came again here.
Where I've plod and hced and narrowed
manage to make .uvin'. this noishborhooa
Ihe people mostly sainas. understood
Why = am one no longer. I'm alone i.e
And M her feen and how they show h. amt pieasanss own
~. can't 60 back to the business her ashsy s.in
Where every bird and 1eTr ssa SCI paacs
Where we used TO be together. reminds me Of her face
And it's good end swsA. assa to be
Here in the hills that summer when he me-
And rs not the face Of the town
W us words 50 proud and worldly md its
Wen. well mistaken. of course in Hste S,raos.
Instead Of ben nm she and maybe ts..:
But Il I was mistakes, good mistake TO make
f Of q. ,a9 s o. % sSioa, which no,hin
M And e Grace always ell think vay-
sa as wsaisssr hss Ie"l nalde y Aaa wherever shs
lh0f' must pc some = aieh Npana e thought