The Darlington herald. (Darlington, S.C.) 1890-1895, July 28, 1893, Image 3
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nciric WAVES.
Partway a«4 Batsejr Aiwpt Little
MtmWpfa—Tfeajr IM Wtmu
M t«Ue a Ckaraeter.
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two if ring chickens in the rain
barrel, and t don’t snppoae any of
yon shed many tears on onracoount,
did yon ?
Betsy told Me the next day when
I was telling her how it would
alarm my eastern friends if the;
knew my sitnation, she
betaH Mr diamonds that
woald cars two cents’ worth of
l whether .1 drowned or
^BBei th iaik aboat her
know, and she always
»t'Tasi
•«
ored you most wear a long,
tombstone countenance, no
whose fnneral you are at. Even the
captain stopped the rum on us before
the chill was half eradicated, and
I’ve been afraid of my lungs and
alimentary electric railway ever
since. (Alimentary canal is obso
lete).
ell, the little red-headed orphan
said he wonidn’t be adopted, but be
would ge with us and live with us
*8 long ts we' used him sou are and
»
These are his very words—use him
white and square and n< t draw the
clinch to tight on him, whatever
that means.
He said his name was Oliver Opps,
that hie parents bad lived all over
the west for (J\e last .fourteen yesrs,
but'tee can’t believe him in all he
says. He said at first his father had
been a preacher, then one day he
himself aod said he had b*n
another
n in the
when I
21 these professions, he
be telling the whole
end said his father had been
thief over in
tab. ‘‘
Betsey hugged him end kissed
‘" end esid
brine .about Betsy 1 1 "i—i
.SSHtSS w
■ ^t^eee s regultr and genuine case
-tef ItteMtWwd fmte the gave,
ltd tf there b eny patent sarsapa-
p -wifitr nor
memory) we
itb* atiedMcedmtm, in
SlEm-.w* O f * Kw /
Well, not to keep my frienda in
1 would giye him a chew of toba
he would toll me ths truth about
dad and mi
'Mqeep family has always needed some
onfOD
M littfi4ate» Mo
• FUUpaad the eauch,
r more like a itorepipe hat
Aomlnf town• well withaMiokla
ihud S dra|gedBeby andlwith it
Joked
were fhokjr
-ti
pwSri.. uw
boy, about a dona 'jt
up oat of the ooean cloae to me, and Z
I helped him to get hold of the ^
ptant Then, a few minutes eftS^f - i!!!
wetto my little oM gray men with
the ted Born end eyes end jog popped
e)
M
planl
in the city, and t
the W. 0; T. U.
pulled him over to the
be caught on to H| blew his
If! hoeee with the distemper,
!||| MMBtoT the «|>tain,
and not finding him lie tarned his
little red eyes upon me and said:
♦They needn't have done this on
M I thoughtIsaw j
boat ray little red-eye
‘ it down in spite
ere duimed
• • Him as one, it
iite* LrSJS ^ He N
afsiss
“ IHWi JOBOTB WW
np at
wTnStfbt
dutn fab little
The onptoiu
. boat wen very
the residue of
of
: west 1
t’tee a
s. H
oeen a i
forgot hi . _
a saloon keeper, and still at
gs&’&fcslfjr
main
Well, I finally
him in the family, on account ofb*
such a mag “
ing
concluded*to keep
. :ii^
magnificent liar. The
lister, and ha slwsyi cries when
tolN atoto her, aod that he
Bftmy and I to crying, too. and
obnneoted with it that oonld tell
a lie and any grace at the table, and
1 better* we have in Oliver Opps
the raw material for jnst snch a
" rt ot
tie Oliver Oppa does fael
om the loss of his little
when ha
he sets
w , and we
ham a reel baky, Umai If there is
anything id OodV wide and wicked
world that will melt my old heart, it
imoathy at all for the rich, beoanse
t% now . toli for' Anything but
money, and it looks too jnneh like
jpwple who
sympathy and tears to a ns
look
tvud
yon si
sition ? T
“I^Ju
lure is notxibao
of oHifir spirit
eauufut picture!”
iucreasiug the pressure and flatten
ing her out a little more against my
ealice shirt. ^ ~ » ;
“And do yon suppose she’s now -
■ ■ HTr^t
this po-
dyhr, if^er an-
by the influence
spirit^ she is certuiii)
Imppy ugknowinjr I have foinwl &n
a lovinl'oor ” ■
pSticm^
exclaimed.
“And mobby,” I continued, “she
has. found a new companion, for all
we know. She may be now at this
very moment bobbing with some
brewer
“Ob, Von old brute!” said Betsey,
tearing loose 'from my loving em
brace and ruffling up my shirt in
her struggles; “if I
would tall that way about me to your
third wife, I’d cope4pck te»4 «po?k
.**, A.
long as you go on picturing
$$£&&&*
await patiently the
Joe Anderson my.
in four Y
Dm toe mocoetit yun ptevure
woman in Heaven setting her'cap
fora new catch, Jut like women
always do; why, you inust look out
or you’ll get your eyes dosed.
Good lands of butterfly wings
‘ “ I wSs
a 200 pound soap boiler’s
have often pictured to Betsey
imaginery panorama «t . dear old
Meunda chasing cherubs across the
alfitta fields of paradise, With her
i hirt all hedrabhled with honey , dsw
hair down and her
and her hair down and her shoes run
over at the heel, and she always
seemed to enjoy the picture. But
the moment I piotttrs her happy iu
some one’s love, she cajis it sacrilege.
Just at this point ws were inter
rupted by little Oliver Opf* who
was sleeping on the floor, where
Betsey made him a temporary fled.
He railed himself upon om dhow
and asked;
“Bay, old potyde bead, do you
mpose my old dad i
right
••I d
the:
y offering
who
hold either,
offer a prayer-
book to a mob, or a drink of water
to a southern colonel.
I have vlsitod ourjittle, old, rid
nMferal.tispes since we
n San Francisco,' but he
Was perfectly sober.
He bad three
belong to
* while their hus
bands all keep saloons, and they
insist that their father must keep
the
ds
:ime.
to
grown-up daughters
they all ‘ ‘
to the surface satin after Be-
by the suction of
vessel About eighty-
They sort of parade the old man
to the temperance meetings as a
bright and snining light in £he tem
perance cause.
He told me odnfideutially that he
kpe* aelL<|iough that he wasn’t
bright ana shining light, but i
the temperance girls accepted
one, it wasn’t in his place to
He paid it was only figu-
apeeking, anyhow, the same
as a striped post in front of a bar
ber shop, or a prayer in the halls of
Congress, or teats on a barrow. He
said there was more pretease in the
toshimisWe wdH4 than faai* On the
head of our government, and when
be gave me the wink and told me to
» down inrthe wHar with him to
ttc nest of pug pups, I ki
wh , i ! e
and the old man s daughters were
ia -the parlor, I enquired as to the
x ef his pap’s nest, and that made
when...
o you want to go to Heavem
motherless boy V” inquired
Betsey.
“Not hi
)ear. dear, dear! Hid yen over
4y dear little Oliver, why don’t you
want to go to Heaven
“Cause, I have to die first, you old
to
“Dear sakes alive! Did you
hear such a boy? ‘ 4 “
dear, do you ever sa
when you go to bod ?
“Naw.l I alters
I’m skeerb You just orter heard
•de rtd ’em off the daf wer’e btewed
up. I said prayers onongh that day
toltotme teri^ean^ttnlMsI get In
some other tight place and need
some fresh ones.”
H
I knew at
•ex
oar excuse for a trip to the cellar.
Bat Betsey got on to the racket,
ipd aext time we spoke of some
unssttlod foot regarding those
she spoke np and
here, old man, that pup’s
tfaa auesrsot easel 1
• • OM Mnt” aod
ly to
wards bu daughters and 'remarked
towards Betsy; “They're
ma’am.”
this Incident Betsey
and I went back to our hotel, where
lM«d
f Dlturwj Aivcr
went back to our hotel. wh<
uAOlirer smoking cigaretl
1 boy in
, dad and mam wm*
kt MM *M
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“But won’t you say them to-night,
I'M ^4
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traflKti+ailtttf smoking
and lying down to the bell
pate red itrtak.
Betsey and I Went Up to odr room
early, it being the fifth floor and no
elevator running, and the night be
ing bright with moonlight, we sat
(town by thu window and looked out
over the wildernesi of chimneys,
smoking Hks Dutch uncles at a pub
lic rale.
Somehow a feeling of homesick-
for I wss unknown to almost every
soul in the city) except dear Betsey,
sad an' impulse came otw me
Utile j*t dots and amine til over it
muff, And
ed up into my eye* with that
1 - “Oh, tobe aathfo’,
ut lay right here and be
•munched to your bosom Uke a wad
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