| Show 2 M lr ar A al 1 M i 43 I 1 7 k i V i i ica at V 1 iff r M e ia M an 14 1 BUTTS I 1 HE laborer babore r I 1 in New newborn bornn 2 ax that I 1 first loc x 0 I 1 hands hainds and swore eternal friendship to harry butts thirty years ago he and I 1 worked on the times of 3 that city the favorite drink with the lads in that locality was known as whisky squeeze the gentleman behind the bar having poured out as much of the liquid hardware as he thought it prudent to hide away the gentleman behind that wooden structure would with his dexter hand force a few i drops of lemon juice jnice in the glass and your whisky squeeze was ready for the sacrifice one night harry butts changed the order of things and requested that a few drops of the extract of ginger be deposited in his glass instead of the customary lemon juice this modest request of harrys tickled the lads and ever afterward he was known as ginger butts no man ever drank alone in that town southern hospitality demanded that everyone should wait until his neighbor was accommodated and the man who treated would shout show your gliss when every glass would te be drained I 1 have seen a score of typos outside of the old fashioned bar of the gaston house which I 1 believe was situated on pollock street wait with true politeness for the cry of show your glass at which command each tumbler would be emptied with precision now ginger butts was a good na aured handsome fellow and half the white girls in newborn were in love with him not to mention a few of the off colored ones but ginger fought shy of the fair sex until he met a young lady in the name of well just here ill call her rate kate devere kate was a typical southern beauty she had the dark hair flashing eyes ruddy cheeks coral lips and the tall symmetrical form so often met with in the daughters of dixie that she was high spirited and imperious will be seen later on now there a lad on the times but would have given his whole weeks string for a smile or a tender word from kate and for a time a certain individual who shall be nameless felt that he was making rapid progress in her good graces until ginger fastened his blue eye upon hw het and then that nameless persons stock began rapidly to decline one night at a little social gathering ginger conald antly informed us that a week previously previous y he be bad said to kate will you and that the young lady had blushingly replied 1 I will so it was hands down and eyes off with all the rest of us after that some of us the nameless person above alluded to included felt rather sore upon the re of this information but it was only momentarily ginger was such an all round favorite that it was almost impossible to bear him malice and in the course of a halt half hour we were all showing our bottom at gingers dingers Gin gers ex pense Z Z JA A z 11 i 11 I 1 I 1 t 1 Y I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I I 1 I 1 I 1 i 0 I 1 PI UNMANLY BOOR 11 the rhe day of the consummation of the had been named they were to be married in october and ginger thought it would be a good and friendly thing to give an entertainment to a few of his bachelor friends shortly before the wedding As no paper was issued on sunday a saturday evening in the latter part of september was selected as aa the most appropriate time tor for the affair so on that memorable saturday evening a score or more of us by special invitation repaired to miss kates vine clad crt cattage cc tage which was situated just outside of town all prepared to have a quiet sociable but jov jovial jal time unfortunately for ginger in anticipation of cf the pleasure of the evening he had indulged a trifle too much in his favorite beverage during the afternoon whether it was the whisky or the ginger that worked the change in him I 1 never could cot id ascertain but certain it was ahat he was a trifle weak in his limbs and slightly incoherent in his speech miss revere was alone in the parlor when we arrived and received us with true southern hospitality how beautiful she looked I 1 what a vision of delight she appeared theres nothing half so sweet in life as a loves lores young dream said tom moore more oro than eighty years ago that sentiment held good in IBM 1866 and does yet if an old timers opinion to is worth recording certainly never before or since have I 1 seen geen anyone look halt half tso so sweet as kate did on an that evening she was the V very ery em embodiment of loves young dream wen well the young lady sat down to the piano and for half an hour jenter us with the star spangled banner the bonnie blue flag hall columbia iffy my maryland barlous and var lous other patriotic alra aim when she con m eluded ginger dinger atae waltzed w alto I 1 4 the old A tf sideboard upon isia And J delre I 1 I 1 I 1 im ig I 1 it M iw 4 jjr jp iri MW ame I 1 ta 41 di L i TC CAS taff 5 tf 1 4 WT z 47 F 7 W byc 01 ass I 1 R 7 6 Z s mi glass and stuttered N i naw now teni geni gentlemen sh ah show your tot bot bottom we were about to empty when my eye rested on cm kate and I 1 raised my hand I 1 warningly wh matter persisted G ginger in sh show hot bot bottom again I 1 based my hand instinctively every eye turned toward me and from me to kate she stood to 6 d erect her tall tali form towering to its fullest height and from her black eyes flashed forth a glance fiance of scorn and conte contempt unmanly boor she sh e cried 1 I is s this language fit for a ladys presence presences 9 and she haughtily pointed toward the door As if by magic the recreant lover stood before her comple completely completed tel y sobered kate he cried piteously but the haughty southern blwood within her was afire that blood which overcame us at bull run and chancellorsville and nearly turned the tide of battle at gettysburg was boiling in her veins like a volcano and she again pointed to the door broken hearted crestfallen humiliated ginger seized his hat and departed sullenly lenly Si Sl we followed in his bis footsteps poor ginger we tried to comfort him but he was inconsolable A few days afterward he endeavored to explain and affect a reconciliation but tw of no avail the imperious IT ma maiden en vrho who should have been born in the middle ages aes in the days of old when knights wore wire bold refused most emphatically to harken barken to his frantic appeal and preemptor preempt orlly ilY ordered him from her presence within a fortnight te he left the sunny south for the rugged hills of his native new hampshire A dozen years ago while touring the eastern states I 1 met ginger in a country town in massachusetts he was greatly changed presumably old and suffering from melancholia he made a confidante of me told me he had never forgotten his early love she was still his ideal and why he never married |
