Buddy McCaslin

Amodeus "Uncle Buddy" McCaslin is the twin brother of Theophilus and the son of Carothers McCaslin. He is described in "Was" as "all one gray color, like an old gray rock or a stump with gray moss on it, that still, with his round white head like Uncle Buck's but he didn’t blink like Uncle Buck and he was a little thicker than Uncle Buck, as if from sitting down so much watching food cook, as if the things he cooked had made him a little thicker than he would have been and the things he cooked with, the flour and such, had made him all one same quiet color" (26). Hubert Beauchamp notes other contrasts between Buck and Buddy: Buddy isn't "woman-weak" (27), and he does not drink alcohol. Buddy is also an excellent poker player, as Hubert says: "It's said that a man playing cards with Amodeus McCaslin aint gambling" (27). He dies of old age, at 74, several months before his brother.