Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-25
SNAPPED SUITS.

midst Ut tho forest prlmoNal. NIlant trees stretched their gnarled branches ahovp my head and scattered thoir bril- liant leaves about me, weaving carpet for my horSo's feet moro gorgeous than kings havc trod Away off ill tho lonely ScQuatchio could sro tho sloping ridges and spreading spurs dovetaillng into each other their crimson and yell low and purple till all faded alike into the distant bluo as tho mountains lost themselves i'll tho misty east No sound broke the stiffness savc now and then the barking uf squirrel cracking nuts in tho big chestnut trees or tho late call of tho wood bird for his mate was musing on tho mighty works of God and tho pitiful efforts of his unworthy creatures aS 1 rode along and wondering where I should take my supper, for was what might bo called docently hun gry and indecontly thirsty.
 Suddenly sharp turn i'll tho trail stuck my horso's nose almost into the very face of man who sat on rock by the roadside, staring straight before him. His lNoad and chest wero thrown forward. his chin had dropped below zero, his lank knees spread wide apart lilo the open jaws of Louisiana alli- gator and his hands hung limp at his sides A suit of brown jeans, so new that they SmClt of tho walnut bark dye, clothed his thin. stripe of manly form, and a shirt collar of bluo hickory turned down around spare neck, to the very I,-l,I rl, hi Sf~ hair was plastcrcd sleek as a ballroom floor with turkey fat A moro perfect picture of ahjcct misery l never saw be- fore nor since. and I jerkod my pony's | head out uf the mans face and leaned forward in my saddle to look at him. "Got it bad:" I asked at last, when tho creaking of his stiff clothes and the snort uf his heavy breathing became | cmbarrasSinGly audiblo in the Quictude | of the forest.
 That's what 1 hcv, stranger. he said, lifting his jaw, but keeping his eyes fixed straight ahead. 'ketchod it i'll the neck an collar bone an chist, an | the brcaS' bone. an the heart, an the etomick, an the lights, an the liverS, an the buwilS, an tho yuthcr lower regions | Packs rr tho business is, I've got it fu' m the crown CT my ole fool head to the solrs CT my big blamed foot. Got it all Over!'
 "What gave it to you?'
 | Hcsprang to his feet of height with | q veil that rrvcrbrrated on tho noun tain side, jumped about n yard from the | ground, cracking his heels together as he camo down again.
 What gin it to me, stranger?" he shouted when he had lit what gin it to me? Why, Nancy, Ov course! Who'd you s'posc? Case why? Case CT these her plague on clo'es what you see be. fo' you, a-kivcrin this flabbergaSted ole hide cr mino Look at 'em, stranger. Look at 'rm, fur Gawd's sake, fur theil cen is nigh at han, and the follow gy' rated around among tho dry leaves like T matrrializrd whirlwind.
 "Cluthrs:" said l. What the mat ter with your clothes? That's as good [ suit aS I've seen this sido of Pcnnsyl vania.
 stranger, you don't mean it?' ht said softly, coming up cl0Sc beside m' and fetching q whack across my thigl that tinglcd all the way up my anat omy. creeping out at tho end of my funny bone. "Sho' now, you don mean it:''
 "Yrs, do, though, but what doe
 Nancy say abrut ir?" I answered.
 Stranger, hc said, leaning on m,
 pony s neck and looking up at me con
 tidentially, ''you sec it's thisser way
 Me an Nancy thar's been keopin com
 p'ny nigh on to three years come tn
 l3 day cr noX' December, an thing
 had about got whar thar warn't nair
 orncry CESS on the mountaing as dare to look at the groun she walked on
 That what! I'm some, stranger, whens
 gifts riled, an the fellows lowed 'twa l; my deal, an Cl'&red the track. Vel
 scch was matters tell the 2 day ne
 las Angus, whcnst we was comin hon
 fun meutin down to the cove, me a
 Nancy That day axed an Nancy spo6
 the word, an we fixed the time-th
 here very day, blame it-fur the knot !, be tied, the knot which binds, but don
 inebrate. v
 saw tho fellows jaw was beginnin
 to culver, and suddenly he clapped h
 hands to his face and dropped back c v the stone
 I thought he was going off into or '' of thoSo staring frances perhaps, '- worse. so I interposed gently: '' Where was the hitch?"
 x Right here. durn it all, " he shou
 ed, slapping his narrow pantaloons a1 fiinging open his ample coat iron These here clo'es, l tell you. Ma A ',,,, ,,,., 1ritb bar OTyT han too that < whar it hurts. 1 can't 1 back thar to the cabin an tell ma
 Nancy scorned the clo'es she made, cou , you now, stranger, ef you was me? r. q, knowed mann lOnger'n l hev Nancy, {
 she hev stood by me h'ough evil
 we'll as though good report, in sic - ness an in health''--the fellows ey n. were getting set again. 70 Lord iO whatchcr reckon make my ole fool m -; keep runnin OH that marridge Ger mon
 As aimed to tell you while ago, ma sho made this here suit out'n out, dy o' m cardin an spinnin an weavin an cU '' tin an sewin an all. She ripped up paI Q weddin suit fur patron, which gra V pap he'd mar i'd in the same befo' hiI An this hickory stripe shirt, she ma 5. it, too, an stranger. what's fellow
 do? I cant go home, s'help me Cav l.. an tell the ole oman Nancy scorn I5 the clo'es she made fur me, but I dor
 min tellin you, seein you are handy 70, seem kinder soft an harmless.
 "AsI lowed the weddin was to ool B, off tonight, so I got ready and we
 down early, aimin to be on han D. thinkin I could hep roun mebl
 fetchin wood an drawin cider. I { 'S, thar soon arter dinner. an NAnoy's lit
 sis Ten, she seed me comin an rum an tol the yuthers. An, by gu 20 whenst I shinned over the fence ''' started up the parth to the house, u