The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1853-11-02
Visit to the Ugly MaRa.
DY SIMON SUGGS.


Looked out the door. 1t Mas Lucy
Wallis, the pretty daughter of the
| Ugly Man! Snluting us modcstly, she
asked us in-md to he scated-and
resumed her work. There are few
more lovely girls than Lucy. In her
moist blue eyes was blended EXPIRES
sion of mirthfulmess and something
more tender, that went into your
hear; without ever asking leave Clad
in a home.spun frock, coarse, but
tn>tefuness in it's colors and adjust
mcnt. And oh! how brilliantly spot.
less-hcr fingers tipped with the blue
Of the indigo tub-hcr little feet in
buck skin moccasins-shc piled her
task industrionsly; now with nn arch
toss, shaking into place her rich aub-
urn hair; and now, with bound
forward gracefully catching the thread
tia had slipped from her fingers.
Sweet voiced, too, was Lucy Wallis, as
she stood at her wheel, spinning two
threads. One Of cotton on her spindle,
and the other of gossip with my excel
lent and loquacious friend Dick M'Coy.
| Plague take the girl! She has made
me forgot her ugly father! Mr.. Wal
lis aud his wife were from home when
we got thcre-haviug been on Wis
it to a sick ncighbor-but in half
an hour they returned.
"Ihar they comc!" said Dick, as
he heard voices oatside the cabin.
"takc seat and don't be scarcd!"
"lou've never seen daddy, have
you squirca'' she asked, slightly cul
oring and pouting.
"Ncvcr always had a curios-
ity," but the wounded expression of
the girl stopped me-, and in anoth-
ei moment the ugly man was be-
| fore me.
Truly had Mccoy said ''no,hing on
the breathing eartll>couli mattel, him..
His face generallyahad The appearance,
"i II recently healed blistcr.spot His
prominent eyes seems ready to drcp
"tl his face, and were almost guitless
oi ids. lied, red, red, was the almost
prevailing color of his countcnance
even his eyes Inrtook of it. His
mcuth-ruhy red, looked as if it had
been kicked very lately by rough
shod mule, after having been origin
ally made by gouging hole in his
face with a hail grab! The tout en-
sembie was horrible, unspcakablc ugly.
so you've come to sec the u"lv
man, have you Squirc?" I've heard
of you before. You're the man that
t"uk the sense OF this country, last.
was in Gcorgcy, then. Well, you're
mighty welcome. Old woman, nv
round. get something for the Squire
and Dick to cat. Lazy, hain't you
no fresh aiggs abont?"
Lucy went out at his suggestion,
and her father went on: "They call me
ugly. squire, and lam. My fat cr be.
fore me WAS the uglics, man that ev-
cr lived in Hancock county. But I'll
give yon my Experience after sup.
per- Bclikcs you have hearn that
I've been thro' the rutls. No! Well.
when VIC get something to eat, III
tell you more about it, old woman
for heavens sake, you fly round ,har!!"
Tnc old lady did "ny around" and
Lucy got the "aiggs," and between
them they got an excellent supper.
| The purity OF the table cloth, the
excellence of the coffee, and the
freshness of the eggs, not to mention
Lucy S good looks, were more than
a sct-oii against the ugIiness of
Billy; so that Dick and ] continued
to ent quito heartily, to the evident
qualification of our hospitable, though
ugly entertainer.
Supper over, old Billy drew out his
large soap-stone pipe, and filling and
lighting it, he placed it in his mouth.
After Whit or two, he began:
"lt's no use argifyin in the matter
II am the ugliest man now on top of
the earth. Thar's nary nurther like
me! am crowd by myself
alters was. The fust knowed of it
though, was when ! was bout 10 years
Old. | went down to the spring brancl,
one mornin, to wash my face, and as
| looked in the water. | seen the
shadow Of my face! That's the last
time Eve seen my countenance-I
u"' 'o'' ou' ohoU ~ cycS WHICH go 10
the water"
Don't you use glass when you
shave?" inquired.
| "Glass! Thunder! What glass could
stand it-would bust if it were an
inch thick. Glass!--pish!"
Lucy told her father he was "too
bad, and that he knew it WINS no such
thing" but the old man told her she
was SASSY wench, and to hold
her tongue"
"Yes," he continued, "it's so; I've
not seen my face in forty years, but
then knows how it looks"
:. "Well, when ] growed up, ! tho.
it@onld hard to find d woman. that'd