The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1885-12-16
UNCLE LYSI WILL.

Z see tht the Snuity Snyder place I8
for sale said the old Settler, as ho
scratched q match on his trousers leg
and lit his pipe. That's Q teaset Of a
farm, an It's ben In the family furbet.
tern 100 year. I'm willin' TO 20 the
juice fur the crowd that th' haint d
man in the house knows how the place
tust got inter the Snufy Snyder
family
No one wanted to bet.
EUR all th't this here story comes.
from the Tniin times, II hain't got no
1niins mixed up init. Thick e1 the In.
iinS was, painters and bars AMI sich
was jiSt ez thick, an ez fur deer, my OF
pap usty soy th't when a teller went fur
a walk In the woods he had to keep o
sharp lookout, cause deer KEEP aspiring
in up on all sides, an the chances was
tht In iumpin' to git out o the way o
one comm in one direction he were fist
o likely Q not 10 git right in front o
one comm in t'other direction, an be
knocked t'other end upards. An them
deer was sassy ez billygosts, too, my OF
pap uSty say.
"off on the north edge o Big Pepper
swamp, bout them times, q passel o
folks from down in Jersey sOme'rs he'd
made clearin'. Most OF It b'longed to
ClySsus PEGGY, a widderer. His wife S
sister Huldy an her stepdarter Kit
KEEP house fur him, Huldy
hayin' had a couple o husban's
or so, an bein' o wilder agin. Kit
were a torable slick gil, jist a.comin'
1s, an in the market f!,r to hitch. 'Lys
Begger-they alluz called him 'I,ys fur
short-had q anephew livin' with him
named Bill Groner. Bill we're q six
tooter, with red head, an, from all.
counts, he didn't brim over with popu.
larity 'rounl the clearin' Ho was a
fighter, an tn were only one ything he
liked better'n q rough.an'.tumble, an
that were the widicr's darter Kit. Itso
happened, though, b'gosh, tht Kit
didn't see no partic'lar p'ints bout Bill.
W'enever he tried to dothe sweet aroun'
her she allu' give him big laugh, an
didn't cotton wutha cent. Kit kinder
give her best looks to'rds a young chap
that everylo ody liked, an his name were
Snuffy Snyder -leastways thst's all the
name he was ever knowed BY. snutfy
want ez fat ez II he'd ben stall fed, not
by no means Fact O. the matter i, he
had moro bone tim q button fact'ry; AM
e fur sinner, gosht'lmightyl 70 could
ha cut a raw.hide whip ont'n any part
OF him. Bill Groner was amazin' Jealous
o'Snuffy, fur two reasons. Fust, cause
Snulfy could sidle up to Kit an she
liked Il, an second, cause Snuffy had
q bald head, Nebbe that mowt seem
funny, boys, an yer smile Is 'scusahle.
But ye must member th't til was Tniins
IN them days, an q bald head wore CON.
sidered bout the safest pie g o per.
sonal property q feller could carry with
him. So, putin this an that together
Bill Grcner an Snufy Snyder want ez
thick ea peas at a thrashin', not by a
long shot.
Nobody never doubted that wen or
'Lys Beggy died the Widder Huldy an
Kit'd fall inter his shoes an own the
hull Of his property. Jep Keyes had a
few acres o sidO.hill on the edge O tho
clearin'. an be was cuttin shines aronn'
the widder. She didn't seem to hey
no objections to addin' another name to
them she'd had already, an shs ruther
give Jep to underStan, th't, II things
was 'greeable, his'n d sound bout as
well o. any on the end o t'others. Ono
day 'LyS Beggy were ont chopin trees,
an whit should he do but let a big pine
branch tumble plumb on him. Ho
never cleared no more an arter that,
an the Wldder Huldy an her darter
Kit was left without no head 10 their
house. AFTER vile folks b'gun to noke
aronn' an aEt questions 'bout 'Tys'
will fur oil they could larn TIL didn't
seem to 30 no will, Jep Reyes KEEP a
callin' on the widder, an arter A month
or so be thort th't mehbe th' wouldn't
DO nothln' out o the way in him kind
o eaSin' his own mind bout the will;
80 one night he says to Huldy that Il
dldHt seem that Il was 50 long seuce
Uncle 'Lys died, and Huldy said, No, it
didn't. Then bimeby Jep said that he
sposed th't II Uncle 'Tys ntleaye no
will th't Bill Gronerd git the clearin',
and lIuldy she says, Yes. Then bimeby
Jep says good night, and never called
on the widder agin. Then sure enough
folks said, 'Th' hain'tno willn
"'Mebbe tn haint, says Huldy, bout
that time griffin her teeth. II that's
all tht Yep Reyes Is lookinr fur, she
says, little good it'll do him II III 81 a
will
Then she went down in a chest an
took ont q lot o old clothes th't usty
blOng to Uncle Lys, an sorted 'em out.
She sent ON TO poor widder with four
children, AL but an O. corduroy coat
th't nclO I.ys usty set big store by.
an that un she chuCked onter a bed. an
says; J, r.,
,,,,i II AeeP tnat IN 70 member him BY.
That same day Bill Groner says 10
the Widder Huldy th't he guessed th't
plantatatIon was hls'n, an th't IL Rit
didn't marry him the both Of EN- must
pack up an sit, nuldy told him 10 20
an see Eit, He toll Eit wat he'd said
70 her nam, an she hared up an says:
"'W en- th' haiu't nothin' left o snutfy
Snyder but bis boots, she says, then ye
kin come to me an I'll marry yel
l"Arter Kit had toll Bill Groner what
shO thort about marryiu' him, sbe
skipped upstairs an begun to beller.
Sho Enow'd her an her nam d hef to
cut sticks from thar, and what In the
Wild'goOse nation they Wos goIn' to were
moron she could cipher out. VILE she was
boo'boOln' she looked out O. the Winder
an see Snufy Snyder comm long with
his bar trap on bis shoulder, an lug.
gin hunk o beef fur bait. She stuck
her head out an ez good eE she could
fur cEyin' an sobbin, she toll Snutfy
Wat were goin' on. Snutfy. toll her 10
cheer up, an that ez soon o. he went
down Tong the Swamp an sot his bar
trap he'd come back an lick Bill outn
his boots, an then 90 an build EIt an
her mann q cabin on his own little
elearin.
IAN say, Kit, he says, It's golnter
be coldern Green1an' t'night. LEM me
an Of coat o some kind, DO SayG
Kit Sle looked roun' The room an
GO g. the n q corduroy coat tht the Wild.