The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-05-13

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He; played about in the yard and
tyrhed rings for playing marbles
with his feet, like the boys did when
we lad real marble shooters in this
country. He planted his heel in the
gp6und, and carefully stuck down
his big toe and turned perfect cir
Gle marking the place for the "mid,
die man and for the other four,
When he was not doing this, he was
busy doing something else equally as
interesting to him. A wait at Hodges
held for'hin nothing but pleasures
and enjoyment.
. Over in front of the door to the
waiting room for colored people, two
negro boys were busy playing check
ers. ff carried US back to the time, a
good while ago, when we played with
Mr.. ! N Whitesides at Richburg. He
was great checkers player, and
hept US at the game every night un-
til Our Head felt like it would pop,
id then he kept playing. We have
never, played a game since We left
that. city. While the grass grew in
the sandy. field adjoining and the
COW went. unmilked, though the rain
was coming these two negro boys
played checkers. They didn't care
whether the crop this year is ten
millions or ten billions of bales, nor
whether the moon is "wet" or "dry'
this month. Life for them was con-
fined to the present and neither of
them was at the minute hungry.
From the other side of the train
came the Glanking of horse-shoes
where four other negro boys were
pitching the shoes as they do over in
Spartanburg at County Fairs, and
they too were living the happy life.
Just then the bell rang for supper
at the hotel over across the line of
the Greenville branch, and we knew
that the drummers would be we'll
taken care Of as we saw them 60 in
for a snack" before taking the
down train, because the hotel is we'll
kept by the good lady who is the
but we should not be
surprised to hear that one of them
is dissatisfied at the way "she feeds"
while the other declares that It is
the worst joint ever ct at"
Then everything was quiet still in
Hodges. But as you looked towards
creenvl!c you could see the smoke
rising here and there from the en-,
CINE Of the locomotive which was
soon to come to Hodges on its way
to Columbia. Here and there you
could see it. First it would come up
in a great cloud over towards Ware
Shoals, and then you would not see
the smoke again for awhile, then af-
ter time the big engine would send
ub another cloud away towards the
West, and from East to West and
from West to East the train wound
it's way until it finally stopped at
Hodges. There the passengers alight-
ed, for the main line to Abbeville.
Mrs. Wilson was glad to be on her
way back to the fairest city in the
state. Woodrow smiled when he saw
the little brother coming too. They
came in the train, and sat: side by
side in one of the seats. Neither said
much, but constantly they looked at
each other and smiled and each un-
derstood the other. Col. Wilson was
busy all the while telling Mrs. Will
son how hard he had worked and
how "reg'lar" he had gotten up in
the mornings and gone to rest in the
evenings while she was away.
And there was another home COM
ing. Mrs. Horton, the good wife. of
the Editor IF TIE Medium was On
her way from Williamson. She
looked Young and happy as ifF she
had been where the "water is good
and the people are good" She did
look like it, but we know that she
was or. her way home to collect the
money from the Thursdays adver-
tisements which appeared in "hus-
hond'co manor veSterdav IT is not