The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-03-31
From Harper's Weekly
COUsIN sILE'S OIL IA SM,

r0VSvN sILE,S OIL FARM.
..rhe most dreadful smell What on
earth is it! Sally say -"
"Pruus it's the lie; some folks doeah
ike il How dc du, Cousin Peter!
II wasn't Sally the chambermald
knew that at once. But turning, was
puzzled to guess how the stranger was.
Fanny knowledge / had never seen hIm
before or | never should have forgotten
him Longand lank, with straw-colored
hair and blue eyes like dull glass beads,
with nose long enough to have made
one apiece for three ordinary faces, ana
with apparently two joints in 1t, both
movable, and long eXpanse OF yellow
cheeks awful to behold Attired also III
the blue, long-tailed coat and brass bht
TONS the yellow vest and tall white hal
nt the stage Yankee. verify believe
that some one of my theatrical TRENDS
lad played trick upon me- and was
.isiting me in masquerade.
How de du Cousin Peter! SAID 'he
presence again; and | replied, upon my
guard against practical joke
And pray, what am l to call N""'
SIM"
"Lor'. don't stand on no ceremony l
amt stuck up if am tOrehanded. jest
call me Cousin Sile,' like you used ter
do"
Then | knew him. it was Cousin 81
las Peck, whom | had not seen since we
PLAYED marbles, and robbed the orchards
in~ethcr down in Maine He had al
ways had those eyes and that nose, prob
ably i'm his cradle, but he wore round
abouts and was three feet high when we
parted.
Cousin Silas! You had the advantage
of me. admit. Delighted to see you -
Ooh, Mrs OpieD What has brought you
this wayl"
Cousiu Silas tucked his coattails an
der his arm, AMI sat down on char the
wrong way, with his elbows Oh thc back
and his chin in both his hands. before lac
answered me i'll one monosyllahlc--
ale"
What did you say
'Ile."
"Oh, oil!'
"Sartinly, He
AS he warmed up mean "utwardlN,
.ot with the subject OF conversation
that awful smell grew stronger Despite
nv desire always and under every CIR
cumstance to appear well-bred, was
obliged tu sniff audihly. SIiIS heard
me
plain IN he SCENT yon haven't gone
inter it vet he said.
Into what asked
Inter lie
Il trust wise Providence viii never
see it necessary for my discipline that
should go into thing so abomi ate |
said
And then Us the smell grew stronger
| began to think OF my cousins cXPla
nations OF bursting cans, overlooking
hogsheads, etc
/ looked at him, and mvoluutaily
shifted again.
"Some "A cident!" | said inQuin"gly
Hey"
You spoke of having heenm oil EX-
cuse me; it is apparent-paintGily - -
BY what accident
oh, twam't adzackly accident in.
corrupted Cousin Silas. n spOse yam
heard OF my marrying Suke jerks,
Yes. | received cake.
..Lor'. yes; Mother jerks made It;
twarn't light Well. Sake, she's dead
an I'm a widdiwcr.'
'Ircgret to hear it "
"Wa'al, it can't be helped, VI know
Old man jerks died aforc her an he
left her some land down in PcnnSylvany
bcsideS the jerks farm up oUy way. yc
see
"Ah."
'You may say Alb; dye know went
down to see that land. and 'twavu't with
shucks. I'll scld it. only uAhod5 'ud gin
me nuthin' fer it. So kinder gin III ali
thoughts about il till last year The
what dye S'poSc Eappcncd!'
You sold it,
Anything green III my eye Cousin
Ietel No, that land took to srodtIn"
TO sroutiG'"
Yes, you never seen the beat Little
boy toGk Il coal shovel to Get some sil.
for a flower pot. aud the minute lac ~ttdcl
the arth mp spuuted lie, like this Yer
fountain in III" Union SluaIr yau YUrl:
crs are So WGul al Whrn its an luli head
Most shattered the child Wu'al. ;av
IS nv tracts lie TIA I
dear mc''
"Ofe ourse l came down an fetched
ands. Meow thar's about fiiN ioui!-
ms III full play Men drawn IT at III
Jackets. Got to be enadcd iy m,n
with rifles like this here Emperor u The
French when he goes Il ridim' tuthcg
Speck Waters is so enviOus 9 me down
thar Made the biggest pile agoin'. Buy
cut A. Il Stewart or Aston il like Fell
YOU. like the smell or not, la is IA good
thing TO get inter, Cousin Pete"
"Excusc me- / said, bat don't call
ne P,te. Its vulgar; l don't like it, l
write myself Pierre; tbs French fo,n at