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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett,
+of the State of Tennessee., by Davy Crockett
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+Title: A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee.
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+Author: Davy Crockett
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+Release Date: November 5, 2011 [EBook #37925]
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+Language: English
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+          NARRATIVE
+
+            OF THE
+
+    LIFE OF DAVID CROCKETT,
+    OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE.
+
+
+  I leave this rule for others when I'm dead,
+  Be always sure you're right--THEN GO AHEAD!
+
+                                  THE AUTHOR.
+
+
+       WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.
+
+         SIXTH EDITION.
+
+  PHILADELPHIA.
+  E. L. CAREY AND A. HART.
+  BALTIMORE:
+  CAREY, HART & CO.
+
+  1834.
+
+
+  Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1834,
+                    BY DAVID CROCKETT,
+  In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia.
+
+
+  STEREOTYPED BY L. JOHNSON,
+  PHILADELPHIA.
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE.
+
+
+Fashion is a thing I care mighty little about, except when it happens to
+run just exactly according to my own notion; and I was mighty nigh
+sending out my book without any preface at all, until a notion struck
+me, that perhaps it was necessary to explain a little the reason why and
+wherefore I had written it.
+
+Most of authors seek fame, but I seek for justice,--a holier impulse
+than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that
+_fickle_, _flirting_ goddess.
+
+A publication has been made to the world, which has done me much
+injustice; and the catchpenny errors which it contains, have been
+already too long sanctioned by my silence. I don't know the author of
+the book--and indeed I don't want to know him; for after he has taken
+such a liberty with my name, and made such an effort to hold me up to
+publick ridicule, he cannot calculate on any thing but my displeasure. If
+he had been content to have written his opinions about me, however
+contemptuous they might have been, I should have had less reason to
+complain. But when he professes to give my narrative (as he often does)
+in my own language, and then puts into my mouth such language as would
+disgrace even an outlandish African, he must himself be sensible of the
+injustice he has done me, and the trick he has played off on the publick.
+I have met with hundreds, if not with thousands of people, who have
+formed their opinions of my appearance, habits, language, and every
+thing else from that deceptive work.
+
+They have almost in every instance expressed the most profound
+astonishment at finding me in human shape, and with the _countenance_,
+_appearance_, and _common feelings_ of a human being. It is to correct
+all these false notions, and to do justice to myself, that I have
+written.
+
+It is certain that the writer of the book alluded to has gathered up
+many imperfect scraps of information concerning me, as in parts of his
+work there is some little semblance of truth. But I ask him, if this
+notice should ever reach his eye, how would he have liked it, if I had
+treated _him_ so?--if I had put together such a bundle of ridiculous
+stuff, and headed it with _his_ name, and sent it out upon the world
+without ever even condescending to ask _his_ permission? To these
+questions, all upright men must give the same answer. It was wrong; and
+the desire to make money by it, is no apology for such injustice to a
+fellow man.
+
+But I let him pass; as my wish is greatly more to vindicate myself, than
+to condemn him.
+
+In the following pages I have endeavoured to give the reader a plain,
+honest, homespun account of my state in life, and some few of the
+difficulties which have attended me along its journey, down to this
+time. I am perfectly aware, that I have related many small and, as I
+fear, uninteresting circumstances; but if so, my apology is, that it was
+rendered necessary by a desire to link the different periods of my life
+together, as they have passed, from my childhood onward, and thereby to
+enable the reader to select such parts of it as he may relish most, if,
+indeed, there is any thing in it which may suit his palate.
+
+I have also been operated on by another consideration. It is this:--I
+know, that obscure as I am, my name is making a considerable deal of
+fuss in the world. I can't tell why it is, nor in what it is to end. Go
+where I will, everybody seems anxious to get a peep at me; and it would
+be hard to tell which would have the advantage, if I, and the
+"Government," and "Black Hawk," and a great eternal big caravan of _wild
+varments_ were all to be showed at the same time in four different parts
+of any of the big cities in the nation. I am not so sure that I
+shouldn't get the most custom of any of the crew. There must therefore
+be something in me, or about me, that attracts attention, which is even
+mysterious to myself. I can't understand it, and I therefore put all the
+facts down, leaving the reader free to take his choice of them.
+
+On the subject of my style, it is bad enough, in all conscience, to
+please critics, if that is what they are after. They are a sort of
+vermin, though, that I sha'n't even so much as stop to brush off. If
+they want to work on my book, just let them go ahead; and after they are
+done, they had better blot out all their criticisms, than to know what
+opinion I would express of _them_, and by what sort of a curious name I
+would call _them_, if I was standing near them, and looking over their
+shoulders. They will, at most, have only their trouble for their pay.
+But I rather expect I shall have them on my side.
+
+But I don't know of any thing in my book to be criticised on by
+honourable men. Is it on my spelling?--that's not my trade. Is it on my
+grammar?--I hadn't time to learn it, and make no pretensions to it. Is
+it on the order and arrangement of my book?--I never wrote one before,
+and never read very many; and, of course, know mighty little about that.
+Will it be on the authorship of the book?--this I claim, and I'll hang
+on to it, like a wax plaster. The whole book is my own, and every
+sentiment and sentence in it. I would not be such a fool, or knave
+either, as to deny that I have had it hastily run over by a friend or
+so, and that some little alterations have been made in the spelling and
+grammar; and I am not so sure that it is not the worse of even that, for
+I despise this way of spelling contrary to nature. And as for grammar,
+it's pretty much a thing of nothing at last, after all the fuss that's
+made about it. In some places, I wouldn't suffer either the spelling, or
+grammar, or any thing else to be touch'd; and therefore it will be found
+in my own way.
+
+But if any body complains that I have had it looked over, I can only
+say to him, her, or them--as the case may be--that while critics were
+learning grammar, and learning to spell, I, and "Doctor Jackson, L.L.D."
+were fighting in the wars; and if our books, and messages, and
+proclamations, and cabinet writings, and so forth, and so on, should
+need a little looking over, and a little correcting of the spelling and
+the grammar to make them fit for use, its just nobody's business. Big
+men have more important matters to attend to than crossing their
+_t_'s--, and dotting their _i_'s--, and such like small things. But the
+"Government's" name is to the proclamation, and my name's to the book;
+and if I didn't write the book, the "Government" didn't write the
+proclamation, which no man _dares to deny_!
+
+But just read for yourself, and my ears for a heel tap, if before you
+get through you don't say, with many a good-natured smile and hearty
+laugh, "This is truly the very thing itself--the exact image of its
+Author,
+
+                          DAVID CROCKETT."
+
+  WASHINGTON CITY,
+  February 1st, 1834.
+
+
+
+
+                   NARRATIVE
+
+                    OF THE
+
+             LIFE OF DAVID CROCKETT.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER I.
+
+
+As the public seem to feel some interest in the history of an individual
+so humble as I am, and as that history can be so well known to no person
+living as to myself, I have, after so long a time, and under many
+pressing solicitations from my friends and acquaintances, at last
+determined to put my own hand to it, and lay before the world a
+narrative on which they may at least rely as being true. And seeking no
+ornament or colouring for a plain, simple tale of truth, I throw aside
+all hypocritical and fawning apologies, and, according to my own maxim,
+just "_go ahead_." Where I am not known, I might, perhaps, gain some
+little credit by having thrown around this volume some of the flowers of
+learning; but where I am known, the vile cheatery would soon be
+detected, and like the foolish jackdaw, that with a _borrowed_ tail
+attempted to play the peacock, I should be justly robbed of my pilfered
+ornaments, and sent forth to strut without a tail for the balance of my
+time. I shall commence my book with what little I have learned of the
+history of my father, as all _great men_ rest many, if not most, of
+their hopes on their noble ancestry. Mine was poor, but I hope honest,
+and even that is as much as many a man can say. But to my subject.
+
+My father's name was John Crockett, and he was of Irish descent. He was
+either born in Ireland or on a passage from that country to America
+across the Atlantic. He was by profession a farmer, and spent the early
+part of his life in the state of Pennsylvania. The name of my mother was
+Rebecca Hawkins. She was an American woman, born in the state of
+Maryland, between York and Baltimore. It is likely I may have heard
+where they were married, but if so, I have forgotten. It is, however,
+certain that they were, or else the public would never have been
+troubled with the history of David Crockett, their son.
+
+I have an imperfect recollection of the part which I have understood my
+father took in the revolutionary war. I personally know nothing about
+it, for it happened to be a little before my day; but from himself, and
+many others who were well acquainted with its troubles and afflictions,
+I have learned that he was a soldier in the revolutionary war, and took
+part in that bloody struggle. He fought, according to my information, in
+the battle at Kings Mountain against the British and tories, and in some
+other engagements of which my remembrance is too imperfect to enable me
+to speak with any certainty. At some time, though I cannot say certainly
+when, my father, as I have understood, lived in Lincoln county, in the
+state of North Carolina. How long, I don't know. But when he removed
+from there, he settled in that district of country which is now embraced
+in the east division of Tennessee, though it was not then erected into a
+state.
+
+He settled there under dangerous circumstances, both to himself and his
+family, as the country was full of Indians, who were at that time very
+troublesome. By the Creeks, my grandfather and grandmother Crockett were
+both murdered, in their own house, and on the very spot of ground where
+Rogersville, in Hawkins county, now stands. At the same time, the
+Indians wounded Joseph Crockett, a brother to my father, by a ball,
+which broke his arm; and took James a prisoner, who was still a younger
+brother than Joseph, and who, from natural defects, was less able to
+make his escape, as he was both deaf and dumb. He remained with them for
+seventeen years and nine months, when he was discovered and recollected
+by my father and his eldest brother, William Crockett; and was purchased
+by them from an Indian trader, at a price which I do not now remember;
+but so it was, that he was delivered up to them, and they returned him
+to his relatives. He now lives in Cumberland county, in the state of
+Kentucky, though I have not seen him for many years.
+
+My father and mother had six sons and three daughters. I was the fifth
+son. What a pity I hadn't been the seventh! For then I might have been,
+by _common consent_, called _doctor_, as a heap of people get to be
+great men. But, like many of them, I stood no chance to become great in
+any other way than by accident. As my father was very poor, and living
+as he did _far back in the back woods_, he had neither the means nor the
+opportunity to give me, or any of the rest of his children, any
+learning.
+
+But before I get on the subject of my own troubles, and a great many
+very funny things that have happened to me, like all other historians
+and biographers, I should not only inform the public that I was born,
+myself, as well as other folks, but that this important event took
+place, according to the best information I have received on the subject,
+on the 17th of August, in the year 1786; whether by day or night, I
+believe I never heard, but if I did I, have forgotten. I suppose,
+however, it is not very material to my present purpose, nor to the
+world, as the more important fact is well attested, that I was born;
+and, indeed, it might be inferred, from my present size and appearance,
+that I was pretty _well born_, though I have never yet attached myself
+to that numerous and worthy society.
+
+At that time my father lived at the mouth of Lime Stone, on the
+Nola-chucky river; and for the purpose not only of showing what sort of
+a man I now am, but also to show how soon I began to be a _sort of a
+little man_, I have endeavoured to take the _back track_ of life, in
+order to fix on the first thing that I can remember. But even then, as
+now, so many things were happening, that as Major Jack Downing would
+say, they are all in "a pretty considerable of a snarl," and I find it
+"kinder hard" to fix on that thing, among them all, which really
+happened first. But I think it likely, I have hit on the outside line
+of my recollection; as one thing happened at which I was so badly
+scared, that it seems to me I could not have forgotten it, if it had
+happened a little time only after I was born. Therefore it furnishes me
+with no certain evidence of my age at the time; but I know one thing
+very well, and that is, that when it happened, I had no knowledge of the
+use of breeches, for I had never had any nor worn any.
+
+But the circumstance was this: My four elder brothers, and a well-grown
+boy of about fifteen years old, by the name of Campbell, and myself,
+were all playing on the river's side; when all the rest of them got into
+my father's canoe, and put out to amuse themselves on the water, leaving
+me on the shore alone.
+
+Just a little distance below them, there was a fall in the river, which
+went slap-right straight down. My brothers, though they were little
+fellows, had been used to paddling the canoe, and could have carried it
+safely anywhere about there; but this fellow Campbell wouldn't let them
+have the paddle, but, fool like, undertook to manage it himself. I
+reckon he had never seen a water craft before; and it went just any way
+but the way he wanted it. There he paddled, and paddled, and
+paddled--all the while going wrong,--until,--in a short time, here they
+were all going, straight forward, stern foremost, right plump to the
+falls; and if they had only had a fair shake, they would have gone over
+as slick as a whistle. It was'ent this, though, that scared me; for I
+was so infernal mad that they had left me on the shore, that I had as
+soon have seen them all go over the falls a bit, as any other way. But
+their danger was seen by a man by the name of Kendall, but I'll be shot
+if it was Amos; for I believe I would know him yet if I was to see him.
+This man Kendall was working in a field on the bank, and knowing there
+was no time to lose, he started full tilt, and here he come like a cane
+brake afire; and as he ran, he threw off his coat, and then his jacket,
+and then his shirt, for I know when he got to the water he had nothing
+on but his breeches. But seeing him in such a hurry, and tearing off his
+clothes as he went, I had no doubt but that the devil or something else
+was after him--and close on him, too--as he was running within an inch
+of his life. This alarmed me, and I screamed out like a young painter.
+But Kendall didn't stop for this. He went ahead with all might, and as
+full bent on saving the boys, as Amos was on moving the deposites. When
+he came to the water he plunged in, and where it was too deep to wade
+he would swim, and where it was shallow enough he went bolting on; and
+by such exertion as I never saw at any other time in my life, he reached
+the canoe, when it was within twenty or thirty feet of the falls; and so
+great was the suck, and so swift the current, that poor Kendall had a
+hard time of it to stop them at last, as Amos will to stop the mouths of
+the people about his stockjobbing. But he hung on to the canoe, till he
+got it stop'd, and then draw'd it out of danger. When they got out, I
+found the boys were more scared than I had been, and the only thing that
+comforted me was, the belief that it was a punishment on them for
+leaving me on shore.
+
+Shortly after this, my father removed, and settled in the same county,
+about ten miles above Greenville.
+
+There another circumstance happened, which made a lasting impression on
+my memory, though I was but a small child. Joseph Hawkins, who was a
+brother to my mother, was in the woods hunting for deer. He was passing
+near a thicket of brush, in which one of our neighbours was gathering
+some grapes, as it was in the fall of the year, and the grape season.
+The body of the man was hid by the brush, and it was only as he would
+raise his hand to pull the bunches, that any part of him could be seen.
+It was a likely place for deer; and my uncle, having no suspicion that
+it was any human being, but supposing the raising of the hand to be the
+occasional twitch of a deer's ear, fired at the lump, and as the devil
+would have it, unfortunately shot the man through the body. I saw my
+father draw a silk handkerchief through the bullet hole, and entirely
+through his body; yet after a while he got well, as little as any one
+would have thought it. What become of him, or whether he is dead or
+alive, I don't know; but I reckon he did'ent fancy the business of
+gathering grapes in an out-of-the-way thicket soon again.
+
+The next move my father made was to the mouth of Cove creek, where he
+and a man by the name of Thomas Galbreath undertook to build a mill in
+partnership. They went on very well with their work until it was nigh
+done, when there came the second epistle to Noah's fresh, and away went
+their mill, shot, lock, and barrel. I remember the water rose so high,
+that it got up into the house we lived in, and my father moved us out of
+it, to keep us from being drowned. I was now about seven or eight years
+old, and have a pretty distinct recollection of every thing that was
+going on. From his bad luck in that business, and being ready to wash
+out from mill building, my father again removed, and this time settled
+in Jefferson county, now in the state of Tennessee; where he opened a
+tavern on the road from Abbingdon to Knoxville.
+
+His tavern was on a small scale, as he was poor; and the principal
+accommodations which he kept, were for the waggoners who travelled the
+road. Here I remained with him until I was twelve years old; and about
+that time, you may guess, if you belong to Yankee land, or reckon, if
+like me you belong to the back-woods, that I began to make up my
+acquaintance with hard times, and a plenty of them.
+
+An old Dutchman, by the name of Jacob Siler, who was moving from Knox
+county to Rockbridge, in the state of Virginia, in passing, made a stop
+at my father's house. He had a large stock of cattle, that he was
+carrying on with him; and I suppose made some proposition to my father
+to hire some one to assist him.
+
+Being hard run every way, and having no thought, as I believe, that I
+was cut out for a Congressman or the like, young as I was, and as little
+as I knew about travelling, or being from home, he hired me to the old
+Dutchman, to go four hundred miles on foot, with a perfect stranger that
+I never had seen until the evening before. I set out with a heavy heart,
+it is true, but I went ahead, until we arrived at the place, which was
+three miles from what is called the Natural Bridge, and made a stop at
+the house of a Mr. Hartley, who was father-in-law to Mr. Siler, who had
+hired me. My Dutch master was very kind to me, and gave me five or six
+dollars, being pleased, as he said, with my services.
+
+This, however, I think was a bait for me, as he persuaded me to stay
+with him, and not return any more to my father. I had been taught so
+many lessons of obedience by my father, that I at first supposed I was
+bound to obey this man, or at least I was afraid openly to disobey him;
+and I therefore staid with him, and tried to put on a look of perfect
+contentment until I got the family all to believe I was fully satisfied.
+I had been there about four or five weeks, when one day myself and two
+other boys were playing on the road-side, some distance from the house.
+There came along three waggons. One belonged to an old man by the name
+of Dunn, and the others to two of his sons. They had each of them a good
+team, and were all bound for Knoxville. They had been in the habit of
+stopping at my father's as they passed the road, and I knew them. I made
+myself known to the old gentleman, and informed him of my situation; I
+expressed a wish to get back to my father and mother, if they could fix
+any plan for me to do so. They told me that they would stay that night
+at a tavern seven miles from there, and that if I could get to them
+before day the next morning, they would take me home; and if I was
+pursued, they would protect me. This was a Sunday evening; I went back
+to the good old Dutchman's house, and as good fortune would have it, he
+and the family were out on a visit. I gathered my clothes, and what
+little money I had, and put them all together under the head of my bed.
+I went to bed early that night, but sleep seemed to be a stranger to me.
+For though I was a wild boy, yet I dearly loved my father and mother,
+and their images appeared to be so deeply fixed in my mind, that I could
+not sleep for thinking of them. And then the fear that when I should
+attempt to go out, I should be discovered and called to a halt, filled
+me with anxiety; and between my childish love of home, on the one hand,
+and the fears of which I have spoken, on the other, I felt mighty queer.
+
+But so it was, about three hours before day in the morning I got up to
+make my start. When I got out, I found it was snowing fast, and that the
+snow was then on the ground about eight inches deep. I had not even the
+advantage of moonlight, and the whole sky was hid by the falling snow,
+so that I had to guess at my way to the big road, which was about a half
+mile from the house. I however pushed ahead and soon got to it, and then
+pursued it, in the direction to the waggons.
+
+I could not have pursued the road if I had not guided myself by the
+opening it made between the timber, as the snow was too deep to leave
+any part of it to be known by either seeing or feeling.
+
+Before I overtook the waggons, the earth was covered about as deep as my
+knees; and my tracks filled so briskly after me, that by daylight, my
+Dutch master could have seen no trace which I left.
+
+I got to the place about an hour before day. I found the waggoners
+already stirring, and engaged in feeding and preparing their horses for
+a start. Mr. Dunn took me in and treated me with great kindness. My
+heart was more deeply impressed by meeting with such a friend, and "at
+such a time," than by wading the snow-storm by night, or all the other
+sufferings which my mind had endured. I warmed myself by the fire, for I
+was very cold, and after an early breakfast, we set out on our journey.
+The thoughts of home now began to take the entire possession of my mind,
+and I almost numbered the sluggish turns of the wheels, and much more
+certainly the miles of our travel, which appeared to me to count mighty
+slow. I continued with my kind protectors, until we got to the house of
+a Mr. John Cole, on Roanoke, when my impatience became so great, that I
+determined to set out on foot and go ahead by myself, as I could travel
+twice as fast in that way as the waggons could.
+
+Mr. Dunn seemed very sorry to part with me, and used many arguments to
+prevent me from leaving him. But home, poor as it was, again rushed on
+my memory, and it seemed ten times as dear to me as it ever had before.
+The reason was, that my parents were there, and all that I had been
+accustomed to in the hours of childhood and infancy was there; and there
+my anxious little heart panted also to be. We remained at Mr. Coles that
+night, and early in the morning I felt that I couldn't stay; so, taking
+leave of my friends the waggoners, I went forward on foot, until I was
+fortunately overtaken by a gentleman, who was returning from market, to
+which he had been with a drove of horses. He had a led horse, with a
+bridle and saddle on him, and he kindly offered to let me get on his
+horse and ride him. I did so, and was glad of the chance, for I was
+tired, and was, moreover, near the first crossing of Roanoke, which I
+would have been compelled to wade, cold as the water was, if I had not
+fortunately met this good man. I travelled with him in this way, without
+any thing turning up worth recording, until we got within fifteen miles
+of my father's house. There we parted, and he went on to Kentucky and I
+trudged on homeward, which place I reached that evening. The name of
+this kind gentleman I have entirely forgotten, and I am sorry for it;
+for it deserves a high place in my little book. A remembrance of his
+kindness to a little straggling boy, and a stranger to him, has however
+a resting place in my heart, and there it will remain as long as I
+live.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER II.
+
+
+Having gotten home, as I have just related, I remained with my father
+until the next fall, at which time he took it into his head to send me
+to a little country school, which was kept in the neighbourhood by a man
+whose name was Benjamin Kitchen; though I believe he was no way
+connected with the cabinet. I went four days, and had just began to
+learn my letters a little, when I had an unfortunate falling out with
+one of the scholars,--a boy much larger and older than myself. I knew
+well enough that though the school-house might do for a still hunt, it
+wouldn't do for _a drive_, and so I concluded to wait until I could get
+him out, and then I was determined to give him salt and vinegar. I
+waited till in the evening, and when the larger scholars were spelling,
+I slip'd out, and going some distance along his road, I lay by the
+way-side in the bushes, waiting for him to come along. After a while he
+and his company came on sure enough, and I pitched out from the bushes
+and set on him like a wild cat. I scratched his face all to a flitter
+jig, and soon made him cry out for quarters in good earnest. The fight
+being over, I went on home, and the next morning was started again to
+school; but do you think I went? No, indeed. I was very clear of it; for
+I expected the master would lick me up, as bad as I had the boy. So,
+instead of going to the school-house, I laid out in the woods all day
+until in the evening the scholars were dismissed, and my brothers, who
+were also going to school, came along, returning home. I wanted to
+conceal this whole business from my father, and I therefore persuaded
+them not to tell on me, which they agreed to.
+
+Things went on in this way for several days; I starting with them to
+school in the morning, and returning with them in the evening, but lying
+out in the woods all day. At last, however, the master wrote a note to
+my father, inquiring why I was not sent to school. When he read this
+note, he called me up, and I knew very well that I was in a devil of a
+hobble, for my father had been taking a few _horns_, and was in a good
+condition to make the fur fly. He called on me to know why I had not
+been at school? I told him I was afraid to go, and that the master
+would whip me; for I knew quite well if I was turned over to this old
+Kitchen, I should be cooked up to a cracklin, in little or no time. But
+I soon found that I was not to expect a much better fate at home; for my
+father told me, in a very angry manner, that he would whip me an eternal
+sight worse than the master, if I didn't start immediately to the
+school. I tried again to beg off; but nothing would do, but to go to the
+school. Finding me rather too slow about starting, he gathered about a
+two year old hickory, and broke after me. I put out with all my might,
+and soon we were both up to the top of our speed. We had a tolerable
+tough race for about a mile; but mind me, not on the school-house road,
+for I was trying to get as far the t'other way as possible. And I yet
+believe, if my father and the schoolmaster could both have levied on me
+about that time, I should never have been called on to sit in the
+councils of the nation, for I think they would have used me up. But
+fortunately for me, about this time, I saw just before me a hill, over
+which I made headway, like a young steamboat. As soon as I had passed
+over it, I turned to one side, and hid myself in the bushes. Here I
+waited until the old gentleman passed by, puffing and blowing, as tho'
+his steam was high enough to burst his boilers. I waited until he gave
+up the hunt, and passed back again: I then cut out, and went to the
+house of an acquaintance a few miles off, who was just about to start
+with a drove. His name was Jesse Cheek, and I hired myself to go with
+him, determining not to return home, as home and the school-house had
+both become too hot for me. I had an elder brother, who also hired to go
+with the same drove. We set out and went on through Abbingdon, and the
+county seat of Withe county, in the state of Virginia; and then through
+Lynchburgh, by Orange court-house, and Charlottesville, passing through
+what was called Chester Gap, on to a town called Front Royal, where my
+employer sold out his drove to a man by the name of Vanmetre; and I was
+started homeward again, in company with a brother of the first owner of
+the drove, with one horse between us; having left my brother to come on
+with the balance of the company.
+
+I traveled on with my new comrade about three days' journey; but much to
+his discredit, as I then thought, and still think, he took care all the
+time to ride, but never to tie; at last I told him to go ahead, and I
+would come when I got ready. He gave me four dollars to bear my expenses
+upwards of four hundred miles, and then cut out and left me.
+
+I purchased some provisions, and went on slowly, until at length I fell
+in with a waggoner, with whom I was disposed to scrape up a hasty
+acquaintance. I inquired where he lived, and where he was going, and all
+about his affairs. He informed me that he lived in Greenville,
+Tennessee, and was on his way to a place called Gerardstown, fifteen
+miles below Winchester. He also said, that after he should make his
+journey to that place, he would immediately return to Tennessee. His
+name was Adam Myers, and a jolly good fellow he seemed to be. On a
+little reflection, I determined to turn back and go with him, which I
+did; and we journeyed on slowly as waggons commonly do, but merrily
+enough. I often thought of home, and, indeed, wished bad enough to be
+there; but, when I thought of the school-house, and Kitchen, my master,
+and the race with my father, and the big hickory he carried, and of the
+fierceness of the storm of wrath that I had left him in, I was afraid to
+venture back; for I knew my father's nature so well, that I was certain
+his anger would hang on to him like a turkle does to a fisherman's toe,
+and that, if I went back in a hurry, he would give me the devil in three
+or four ways But I and the waggoner had traveled two days, when we met
+my brother, who, I before stated, I had left behind when the drove was
+sold out. He persuaded me to go home, but I refused. He pressed me hard,
+and brought up a great many mighty strong arguments to induce me to turn
+back again. He pictured the pleasure of meeting my mother, and my
+sisters, who all loved me dearly, and told me what uneasiness they had
+already suffered about me. I could not help shedding tears, which I did
+not often do, and my affections all pointed back to those dearest
+friends, and as I thought, nearly the only ones I had in the world; but
+then the promised whipping--that was the thing. It came right slap down
+on every thought of home; and I finally determined that make or break,
+hit or miss, I would just hang on to my journey, and go ahead with the
+waggoner. My brother was much grieved at our parting, but he went his
+way, and so did I. We went on until at last we got to Gerardstown, where
+the waggoner tried to get a back load, but he could not without going to
+Alexandria. He engaged to go there, and I concluded that I would wait
+until he returned. I set in to work for a man by the name of John Gray,
+at twenty-five cents per day. My labour, however, was light, such as
+ploughing in some small grain, in which I succeeded in pleasing the old
+man very well. I continued working for him until the waggoner got back,
+and for a good long time afterwards, as he continued to run his team
+back and forward, hauling to and from Baltimore. In the next spring,
+from the proceeds of my daily labour, small as it was, I was able to get
+me some decent clothes, and concluded I would make a trip with the
+waggoner to Baltimore, and see what sort of a place that was, and what
+sort of folks lived there. I gave him the balance of what money I had
+for safe keeping, which, as well as I recollect, was about seven
+dollars. We got on well enough until we came near Ellicott's Mills. Our
+load consisted of flour, in barrels. Here I got into the waggon for the
+purpose of changing my clothing, not thinking that I was in any danger;
+but while I was in there we were met by some wheel-barrow men, who were
+working on the road, and the horses took a scare and away they went,
+like they had seen a ghost. They made a sudden wheel around, and broke
+the waggon tongue slap, short off, as a pipe-stem; and snap went both of
+the axletrees at the same time, and of all devlish flouncing about of
+flour barrels that ever was seen, I reckon this took the beat. Even _a
+rat_ would have stood a bad chance in a _straight_ race among them, and
+not much better in a crooked one; for he would have been in a good way
+to be ground up as fine as ginger by their rolling over him. But this
+proved to me, that if a fellow is born to be hung, he will never be
+drowned; and, further, that if he is born for a seat in Congress, even
+flour barrels can't make a mash of him. All these dangers I escaped
+unhurt, though, like most of the office-holders of these times, for a
+while I was afraid to say my soul was my own; for I didn't know how soon
+I should be knocked into a cocked hat, and get my walking papers for
+another country.
+
+We put our load into another waggon, and hauled ours to a workman's shop
+in Baltimore, having delivered the flour, and there we intended to
+remain two or three days, which time was necessary to repair the runaway
+waggon. While I was there, I went, one day, down to the wharf, and was
+much delighted to see the big ships, and their sails all flying; for I
+had never seen any such things before, and, indeed, I didn't believe
+there were any such things in all nature. After a short time my
+curiosity induced me to step aboard of one, where I was met by the
+captain, who asked me if I didn't wish to take a voyage to London? I
+told him I did, for by this time I had become pretty well weaned from
+home, and I cared but little where I was, or where I went, or what
+become of me. He said he wanted just such a boy as I was, which I was
+glad to hear. I told him I would go and get my clothes, and go with him.
+He enquired about my parents, where they lived, and all about them. I
+let him know that they lived in Tennessee, many hundred miles off. We
+soon agreed about my intended voyage, and I went back to my friend, the
+waggoner, and informed him that I was going to London, and wanted my
+money and my clothes. He refused to let me have either, and swore that
+he would confine me, and take me back to Tennessee. I took it to heart
+very much, but he kept so close and constant a watch over me, that I
+found it impossible to escape from him, until he had started homeward,
+and made several days' journey on the road. He was, during this time,
+very ill to me, and threatened me with his waggon whip on several
+occasions. At length I resolved to leave him at all hazards; and so,
+before day, one morning, I got my clothes out of his waggon, and cut
+out, on foot, without a farthing of money to bear my expenses. For all
+other friends having failed, I determined then to throw myself on
+Providence, and see how that would use me. I had gone, however, only a
+few miles when I came up with another waggoner, and such was my
+situation, that I felt more than ever the necessity of endeavouring to
+find a friend. I therefore concluded I would seek for one in him. He was
+going westwardly, and very kindly enquired of me where I was travelling?
+My youthful resolution, which had brooked almost every thing else,
+rather gave way at this enquiry; for it brought the loneliness of my
+situation, and every thing else that was calculated to oppress me,
+directly to view. My first answer to his question was in a sprinkle of
+tears, for if the world had been given to me, I could not, at that
+moment, have helped crying. As soon as the storm of feeling was over, I
+told him how I had been treated by the waggoner but a little before, who
+kept what little money I had, and left me without a copper to buy even a
+morsel of food.
+
+He became exceedingly angry, and swore that he would make the other
+waggoner give up my money, pronouncing him a scoundrel, and many other
+hard names. I told him I was afraid to see him, for he had threatened me
+with his waggon whip, and I believed he would injure me. But my new
+friend was a very large, stout-looking man, and as resolute as a tiger.
+He bid me not to be afraid, still swearing he would have my money, or
+whip it out of the wretch who had it.
+
+We turned and went back about two miles, when we reached the place where
+he was. I went reluctantly; but I depended on my friend for protection.
+When we got there, I had but little to say; but approaching the
+waggoner, my friend said to him, "You damn'd rascal, you have treated
+this boy badly." To which he replied, it was my fault. He was then
+asked, if he did not get seven dollars of my money, which he confessed.
+It was then demanded of him; but he declared most solemnly, that he had
+not that amount in the world; that he had spent my money, and intended
+paying it back to me when we got to Tennessee. I then felt reconciled,
+and persuaded my friend to let him alone, and we returned to his waggon,
+geared up, and started. His name I shall never forget while my memory
+lasts; it was Henry Myers. He lived in Pennsylvania, and I found him
+what he professed to be, a faithful friend and a clever fellow.
+
+We traveled together for several days, but at length I concluded to
+endeavour to make my way homeward; and for that purpose set out again on
+foot, and alone. But one thing I must not omit. The last night I staid
+with Mr. Myers, was at a place where several other waggoners also
+staid. He told them, before we parted, that I was a poor little
+straggling boy, and how I had been treated; and that I was without
+money, though I had a long journey before me, through a land of
+strangers, where it was not even a wilderness.
+
+They were good enough to contribute a sort of money-purse, and presented
+me with three dollars. On this amount I travelled as far as Montgomery
+court-house, in the state of Virginia, where it gave out. I set in to
+work for a man by the name of James Caldwell, a month, for five dollars,
+which was about a shilling a day. When this time was out, I bound myself
+to a man by the name of Elijah Griffith, by trade a hatter, agreeing to
+work for him four years. I remained with him about eighteen months, when
+he found himself so involved in debt, that he broke up, and left the
+country. For this time I had received nothing, and was, of course, left
+without money, and with but very few clothes, and them very indifferent
+ones. I, however, set in again, and worked about as I could catch
+employment, until I got a little money, and some clothing; and once more
+cut out for home. When I reached New River, at the mouth of a small
+stream, called Little River, the white caps were flying so, that I
+couldn't get any body to attempt to put me across. I argued the case as
+well as I could, but they told me there was great danger of being
+capsized, and drowned, if I attempted to cross. I told them if I could
+get a canoe I would venture, caps or no caps. They tried to persuade me
+out of it; but finding they could not, they agreed I might take a canoe,
+and so I did, and put off. I tied my clothes to the rope of the canoe,
+to have them safe, whatever might happen. But I found it a mighty
+ticklish business, I tell you. When I got out fairly on the river, I
+would have given the world, if it had belonged to me, to have been back
+on shore. But there was no time to lose now, so I just determined to do
+the best I could, and the devil take the hindmost. I turned the canoe
+across the waves, to do which, I had to turn it nearly up the river, as
+the wind came from that way; and I went about two miles before I could
+land. When I struck land, my canoe was about half full of water, and I
+was as wet as a drowned rat. But I was so much rejoiced, that I scarcely
+felt the cold, though my clothes were frozen on me; and in this
+situation, I had to go above three miles, before I could find any house,
+or fire to warm at. I, however, made out to get to one at last, and then
+I thought I would warm the inside a little, as well as the outside,
+that there might be no grumbling.
+
+So I took "a leetle of the creater,"--that warmer of the cold, and
+cooler of the hot,--and it made me feel so good that I concluded it was
+like the negro's rabbit, "good any way." I passed on until I arrived in
+Sullivan county, in the state of Tennessee, and there I met with my
+brother, who had gone with me when I started from home with the cattle
+drove.
+
+I staid with him a few weeks, and then went on to my father's, which
+place I reached late in the evening. Several waggons were there for the
+night, and considerable company about the house. I enquired if I could
+stay all night, for I did not intend to make myself known, until I saw
+whether any of the family would find me out. I was told that I could
+stay, and went in, but had mighty little to say to any body. I had been
+gone so long, and had grown so much, that the family did not at first
+know me. And another, and perhaps a stronger reason was, they had no
+thought or expectation of me, for they all had long given me up for
+finally lost.
+
+After a while, we were all called to supper. I went with the rest. We
+had sat down to the table and begun to eat, when my eldest sister
+recollected me: she sprung up, ran and seized me around the neck, and
+exclaimed, "Here is my lost brother."
+
+My feelings at this time it would be vain and foolish for me to attempt
+to describe. I had often thought I felt before, and I suppose I had, but
+sure I am, I never had felt as I then did. The joy of my sisters and my
+mother, and, indeed, of all the family, was such that it humbled me, and
+made me sorry that I hadn't submitted to a hundred whippings, sooner
+than cause so much affliction as they had suffered on my account. I
+found the family had never heard a word of me from the time my brother
+left me. I was now almost _fifteen_ years old; and my increased age and
+size, together with the joy of my father, occasioned by my unexpected
+return, I was sure would secure me against my long dreaded whipping; and
+so they did. But it will be a source of astonishment to many, who
+reflect that I am now a member of the American Congress,--the most
+enlightened body of men in the world,--that at so advanced an age, the
+age of fifteen, I did not know the first letter in the book.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER III.
+
+
+I had remained for some short time at home with my father, when he
+informed me that he owed a man, whose name was Abraham Wilson, the sum
+of thirty-six dollars, and that if I would set in and work out the note,
+so as to lift it for him, he would discharge me from his service, and I
+might go free. I agreed to do this, and went immediately to the man who
+held my father's note, and contracted with him to work six months for
+it. I set in, and worked with all my might, not losing a single day in
+the six months. When my time was out, I got my father's note, and then
+declined working with the man any longer, though he wanted to hire me
+mighty bad. The reason was, it was a place where a heap of bad company
+met to drink and gamble, and I wanted to get away from them, for I
+know'd very well if I staid there, I should get a bad name, as nobody
+could be respectable that would live there. I therefore returned to my
+father, and gave him up his paper, which seemed to please him mightily,
+for though he was poor, he was an honest man, and always tried mighty
+hard to pay off his debts.
+
+I next went to the house of an honest old Quaker, by the name of John
+Kennedy, who had removed from North Carolina, and proposed to hire
+myself to him, at two shillings a day. He agreed to take me a week on
+trial; at the end of which he appeared pleased with my work, and
+informed me that he held a note on my father for forty dollars, and that
+he would give me that note if I would work for him six months. I was
+certain enough that I should never get any part of the note; but then I
+remembered it was my father that owed it, and I concluded it was my duty
+as a child to help him along, and ease his lot as much as I could. I
+told the Quaker I would take him up at his offer, and immediately went
+to work. I never visited my father's house during the whole time of this
+engagement, though he lived only fifteen miles off. But when it was
+finished, and I had got the note, I borrowed one of my employer's
+horses, and, on a Sunday evening, went to pay my parents a visit. Some
+time after I got there, I pulled out the note and handed it to my
+father, who supposed Mr. Kennedy had sent it for collection. The old man
+looked mighty sorry, and said to me he had not the money to pay it, and
+didn't know what he should do. I then told him I had paid it for him,
+and it was then his own; that it was not presented for collection, but
+as a present from me. At this, he shed a heap of tears; and as soon as
+he got a little over it, he said he was sorry he couldn't give me any
+thing, but he was not able, he was too poor.
+
+The next day, I went back to my old friend, the Quaker, and set in to
+work for him for some clothes; for I had now worked a year without
+getting any money at all, and my clothes were nearly all worn out, and
+what few I had left were mighty indifferent. I worked in this way for
+about two months; and in that time a young woman from North Carolina,
+who was the Quaker's niece, came on a visit to his house. And now I am
+just getting on a part of my history that I know I never can forget. For
+though I have heard people talk about hard loving, yet I reckon no poor
+devil in this world was ever cursed with such hard love as mine has
+always been, when it came on me. I soon found myself head over heels in
+love with this girl, whose name the public could make no use of; and I
+thought that if all the hills about there were pure chink, and all
+belonged to me, I would give them if I could just talk to her as I
+wanted to; but I was afraid to begin, for when I would think of saying
+any thing to her, my heart would begin to flutter like a duck in a
+puddle; and if I tried to outdo it and speak, it would get right smack
+up in my throat, and choak me like a cold potatoe. It bore on my mind in
+this way, till at last I concluded I must die if I didn't broach the
+subject; and so I determined to begin and hang on a trying to speak,
+till my heart would get out of my throat one way or t'other. And so one
+day at it I went, and after several trials I could say a little. I told
+her how well I loved her; that she was the darling object of my soul and
+body; and I must have her, or else I should pine down to nothing, and
+just die away with the consumption.
+
+I found my talk was not disagreeable to her; but she was an honest girl,
+and didn't want to deceive nobody. She told me she was engaged to her
+cousin, a son of the old Quaker. This news was worse to me than war,
+pestilence, or famine; but still I knowed I could not help myself. I saw
+quick enough my cake was dough, and I tried to cool off as fast as
+possible; but I had hardly safety pipes enough, as my love was so hot
+as mighty nigh to burst my boilers. But I didn't press my claims any
+more, seeing there was no chance to do any thing.
+
+I began now to think, that all my misfortunes growed out of my want of
+learning. I had never been to school but four days, as the reader has
+already seen, and did not yet know a letter.
+
+I thought I would try to go to school some; and as the Quaker had a
+married son, who was living about a mile and a half from him, and
+keeping a school, I proposed to him that I would go to school four days
+in the week, and work for him the other two, to pay my board and
+schooling. He agreed I might come on those terms; and so at it I went,
+learning and working back and forwards, until I had been with him nigh
+on to six months. In this time I learned to read a little in my primer,
+to write my own name, and to cypher some in the three first rules in
+figures. And this was all the schooling I ever had in my life, up to
+this day. I should have continued longer, if it hadn't been that I
+concluded I couldn't do any longer without a wife; and so I cut out to
+hunt me one.
+
+I found a family of very pretty little girls that I had known when very
+young. They had lived in the same neighborhood with me, and I had
+thought very well of them. I made an offer to one of them, whose name
+is nobody's business, no more than the Quaker girl's was, and I found
+she took it very well. I still continued paying my respects to her,
+until I got to love her as bad as I had the Quaker's niece; and I would
+have agreed to fight a whole regiment of wild cats if she would only
+have said she would have me. Several months passed in this way, during
+all of which time she continued very kind and friendly. At last, the son
+of the old Quaker and my first girl had concluded to bring their matter
+to a close, and my little queen and myself were called on to wait on
+them. We went on the day, and performed our duty as attendants. This
+made me worse than ever; and after it was over, I pressed my claim very
+hard on her, but she would still give me a sort of an evasive answer.
+However, I gave her mighty little peace, till she told me at last she
+would have me. I thought this was glorification enough, even without
+spectacles. I was then about eighteen years old. We fixed the time to be
+married; and I thought if that day come, I should be the happiest man in
+the created world, or in the moon, or any where else.
+
+I had by this time got to be mighty fond of the rifle, and had bought a
+capital one. I most generally carried her with me whereever I went, and
+though I had got back to the old Quaker's to live, who was a very
+particular man, I would sometimes slip out and attend the shooting
+matches, where they shot for beef; I always tried, though, to keep it a
+secret from him. He had at the same time a bound boy living with him,
+who I had gotten into almost as great a notion of the girls as myself.
+He was about my own age, and was deeply smitten with the sister to my
+intended wife. I know'd it was in vain to try to get the leave of the
+old man for my young associate to go with me on any of my courting
+frolics; but I thought I could fix a plan to have him along, which would
+not injure the Quaker, as we had no notion that he should ever know it.
+We commonly slept up-stairs, and at the gable end of the house there was
+a window. So one Sunday, when the old man and his family were all gone
+to meeting, we went out and cut a long pole, and, taking it to the
+house, we set it up on end in the corner, reaching up the chimney as
+high as the window. After this we would go up-stairs to bed, and then
+putting on our Sunday clothes, would go out at the window, and climb
+down the pole, take a horse apiece, and ride about ten miles to where
+his sweetheart lived, and the girl I claimed as my wife. I was always
+mighty careful to be back before day, so as to escape being found out;
+and in this way I continued my attentions very closely until a few days
+before I was to be married, or at least thought I was, for I had no fear
+that any thing was about to go wrong.
+
+Just now I heard of a shooting-match in the neighbourhood, right between
+where I lived and my girl's house; and I determined to kill two birds
+with one stone,--to go to the shooting match first, and then to see her.
+I therefore made the Quaker believe I was going to hunt for deer, as
+they were pretty plenty about in those parts; but, instead of hunting
+them, I went straight on to the shooting-match, where I joined in with a
+partner, and we put in several shots for the beef. I was mighty lucky,
+and when the match was over I had won the whole beef. This was on a
+Saturday, and my success had put me in the finest humour in the world.
+So I sold my part of the beef for five dollars in the real grit, for I
+believe that was before bank-notes was invented; at least, I had never
+heard of any. I now started on to ask for my wife; for, though the next
+Thursday was our wedding day, I had never said a word to her parents
+about it. I had always dreaded the undertaking so bad, that I had put
+the evil hour off as long as possible; and, indeed, I calculated they
+knowed me so well, they wouldn't raise any objection to having me for
+their son-in-law. I had a great deal better opinion of myself, I found,
+than other people had of me; but I moved on with a light heart, and my
+five dollars jingling in my pocket, thinking all the time there was but
+few greater men in the world than myself.
+
+In this flow of good humour I went ahead, till I got within about two
+miles of the place, when I concluded I would stop awhile at the house of
+the girl's uncle; where I might enquire about the family, and so forth,
+and so on. I was indeed just about ready to consider her uncle, my
+uncle; and her affairs, my affairs. When I went in, tho', I found her
+sister there. I asked how all was at home? In a minute I found from her
+countenance something was wrong. She looked mortified, and didn't answer
+as quick as I thought she ought, being it was her _brother-in-law_
+talking to her. However, I asked her again. She then burst into tears,
+and told me her sister was going to deceive me; and that she was to be
+married to another man the next day. This was as sudden to me as a clap
+of thunder of a bright sunshiny day. It was the cap-stone of all the
+afflictions I had ever met with; and it seemed to me, that it was more
+than any human creature could endure. It struck me perfectly speechless
+for some time, and made me feel so weak, that I thought I should sink
+down. I however recovered from my shock after a little, and rose and
+started without any ceremony, or even bidding any body good-bye. The
+young woman followed me out to the gate, and entreated me to go on to
+her father's, and said she would go with me. She said the young man, who
+was going to marry her sister, had got his license, and had asked for
+her; but she assured me her father and mother both preferred me to him;
+and that she had no doubt but that, if I would go on, I could break off
+the match. But I found I could go no further. My heart was bruised, and
+my spirits were broken down; so I bid her farewell, and turned my
+lonesome and miserable steps back again homeward, concluding that I was
+only born for hardships, misery, and disappointment. I now began to
+think, that in making me, it was entirely forgotten to make my mate;
+that I was born odd, and should always remain so, and that nobody would
+have me.
+
+But all these reflections did not satisfy my mind, for I had no peace
+day nor night for several weeks. My appetite failed me, and I grew
+daily worse and worse. They all thought I was sick; and so I was. And it
+was the worst kind of sickness,--a sickness of the heart, and all the
+tender parts, produced by disappointed love.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IV.
+
+
+I continued in this down-spirited situation for a good long time, until
+one day I took my rifle and started a hunting. While out, I made a call
+at the house of a Dutch widow, who had a daughter that was well enough
+as to smartness, but she was as ugly as a stone fence. She was, however,
+quite talkative, and soon begun to laugh at me about my disappointment.
+
+She seemed disposed, though, to comfort me as much as she could; and,
+for that purpose, told me to keep in good heart, that "there was as good
+fish in the sea as had ever been caught out of it." I doubted this very
+much; but whether or not, I was certain that she was not one of them,
+for she was so homely that it almost give me a pain in the eyes to look
+at her.
+
+But I couldn't help thinking, that she had intended what she had said as
+a banter for me to court her!!!--the last thing in creation I could
+have thought of doing. I felt little inclined to talk on the subject, it
+is true; but, to pass off the time, I told her I thought I was born odd,
+and that no fellow to me could be found. She protested against this, and
+said if I would come to their reaping, which was not far off, she would
+show me one of the prettiest little girls there I had ever seen. She
+added that the one who had deceived me was nothing to be compared with
+her. I didn't believe a word of all this, for I had thought that such a
+piece of flesh and blood as she was had never been manufactured, and
+never would again. I agreed with her, though, that the little varment
+had treated me so bad, that I ought to forget her, and yet I couldn't do
+it. I concluded the best way to accomplish it was to cut out again, and
+see if I could find any other that would answer me; and so I told the
+Dutch girl I would be at the reaping, and would bring as many as I could
+with me.
+
+I employed my time pretty generally in giving information of it, as far
+as I could, until the day came; and I then offered to work for my old
+friend, the Quaker, two days, if he would let his bound boy go with me
+one to the reaping. He refused, and reproved me pretty considerable
+roughly for my proposition; and said, if he was in my place he wouldn't
+go; that there would be a great deal of bad company there; and that I
+had been so good a boy, he would be sorry for me to get a bad name. But
+I knowed my promise to the Dutch girl, and I was resolved to fulfil it;
+so I shouldered my rifle, and started by myself. When I got to the
+place, I found a large company of men and women, and among them an old
+Irish woman, who had a great deal to say. I soon found out from my Dutch
+girl, that this old lady was the mother of the little girl she had
+promised me, though I had not yet seen her. She was in an out-house with
+some other youngsters, and had not yet made her appearance. Her mamma,
+however, was no way bashful. She came up to me, and began to praise my
+red cheeks, and said she had a sweetheart for me. I had no doubt she had
+been told what I come for, and all about it. In the evening I was
+introduced to her daughter, and I must confess, I was plaguy well
+pleased with her from the word go. She had a good countenance, and was
+very pretty, and I was full bent on making up an acquaintance with her.
+
+It was not long before the dancing commenced, and I asked her to join me
+in a reel. She very readily consented to do so; and after we had
+finished our dance, I took a seat alongside of her, and entered into a
+talk. I found her very interesting; while I was setting by her, making
+as good a use of my time as I could, her mother came to us, and very
+jocularly called me her son-in-law. This rather confused me, but I
+looked on it as a joke of the old lady, and tried to turn it off as well
+as I could; but I took care to pay as much attention to her through the
+evening as I could. I went on the old saying, of salting the cow to
+catch the calf. I soon become so much pleased with this little girl,
+that I began to think the Dutch girl had told me the truth, when she
+said there was still good fish in the sea.
+
+We continued our frolic till near day, when we joined in some plays,
+calculated to amuse youngsters. I had not often spent a more agreeable
+night. In the morning, however, we all had to part; and I found my mind
+had become much better reconciled than it had been for a long time. I
+went home to the Quaker's, and made a bargain to work with his son for a
+low-priced horse. He was the first one I had ever owned, and I was to
+work six months for him. I had been engaged very closely five or six
+weeks, when this little girl run in my mind so, that I concluded I must
+go and see her, and find out what sort of people they were at home. I
+mounted my horse and away I went to where she lived, and when I got
+there I found her father a very clever old man, and the old woman as
+talkative as ever. She wanted badly to find out all about me, and as I
+thought to see how I would do for her girl. I had not yet seen her
+about, and I began to feel some anxiety to know where she was.
+
+In a short time, however, my impatience was relieved, as she arrived at
+home from a meeting to which she had been. There was a young man with
+her, who I soon found was disposed to set up claim to her, as he was so
+attentive to her that I could hardly get to slip in a word edgeways. I
+began to think I was barking up the wrong tree again; but I was
+determined to stand up to my rack, fodder or no fodder. And so, to know
+her mind a little on the subject, I began to talk about starting, as I
+knowed she would then show some sign, from which I could understand
+which way the wind blowed. It was then near night, and my distance was
+fifteen miles home. At this my little girl soon began to indicate to the
+other gentleman that his room would be the better part of his company.
+At length she left him, and came to me, and insisted mighty hard that I
+should not go that evening; and, indeed, from all her actions and the
+attempts she made to get rid of him, I saw that she preferred me all
+holler. But it wasn't long before I found trouble enough in another
+quarter. Her mother was deeply enlisted for my rival, and I had to fight
+against her influence as well as his. But the girl herself was the prize
+I was fighting for; and as she welcomed me, I was determined to lay
+siege to her, let what would happen. I commenced a close courtship,
+having cornered her from her old beau; while he set off, looking on,
+like a poor man at a country frolic, and all the time almost gritting
+his teeth with pure disappointment. But he didn't dare to attempt any
+thing more, for now I had gotten a start, and I looked at him every once
+in a while as fierce as a wild-cat. I staid with her until Monday
+morning, and then I put out for home.
+
+It was about two weeks after this that I was sent for to engage in a
+wolf hunt, where a great number of men were to meet, with their dogs and
+guns, and where the best sort of sport was expected. I went as large as
+life, but I had to hunt in strange woods, and in a part of the country
+which was very thinly inhabited. While I was out it clouded up, and I
+began to get scared; and in a little while I was so much so, that I
+didn't know which way home was, nor any thing about it. I set out the
+way I thought it was, but it turned out with me, as it always does with
+a lost man, I was wrong, and took exactly the contrary direction from
+the right one. And for the information of young hunters, I will just
+say, in this place, that whenever a fellow gets bad lost, the way home
+is just the way he don't think it is. This rule will hit nine times out
+of ten. I went ahead, though, about six or seven miles, when I found
+night was coming on fast; but at this distressing time I saw a little
+woman streaking it along through the woods like all wrath, and so I cut
+on too, for I was determined I wouldn't lose sight of her that night any
+more. I run on till she saw me, and she stopped; for she was as glad to
+see me as I was to see her, as she was lost as well as me. When I came
+up to her, who should she be but my little girl, that I had been paying
+my respects to. She had been out hunting her father's horses, and had
+missed her way, and had no knowledge where she was, or how far it was to
+any house, or what way would take us there. She had been travelling all
+day, and was mighty tired; and I would have taken her up, and toated
+her, if it hadn't been that I wanted her just where I could see her all
+the time, for I thought she looked sweeter than sugar; and by this time
+I loved her almost well enough to eat her.
+
+At last I came to a path, that I know'd must go somewhere, and so we
+followed it, till we came to a house, at about dark. Here we staid all
+night. I set up all night courting; and in the morning we parted. She
+went to her home, from which we were distant about seven miles, and I to
+mine, which was ten miles off.
+
+I now turned in to work again; and it was about four weeks before I went
+back to see her. I continued to go occasionally, until I had worked long
+enough to pay for my horse, by putting in my gun with my work, to the
+man I had purchased from; and then I began to count whether I was to be
+deceived again or not. At our next meeting we set the day for our
+wedding; and I went to my father's, and made arrangements for an infair,
+and returned to ask her parents for her. When I got there, the old lady
+appeared to be mighty wrathy; and when I broached the subject, she
+looked at me as savage as a meat axe. The old man appeared quite
+willing, and treated me very clever. But I hadn't been there long,
+before the old woman as good as ordered me out of her house. I thought I
+would put her in mind of old times, and see how that would go with her.
+I told her she had called me her son-in-law before I had attempted to
+call her my mother-in-law and I thought she ought to cool off. But her
+Irish was up too high to do any thing with her, and so I quit trying.
+All I cared for was, to have her daughter on my side, which I knowed was
+the case then; but how soon some other fellow might knock my nose out of
+joint again, I couldn't tell. I however felt rather insulted at the old
+lady, and I thought I wouldn't get married in her house. And so I told
+her girl, that I would come the next Thursday, and bring a horse,
+bridle, and saddle for her, and she must be ready to go. Her mother
+declared I shouldn't have her; but I know'd I should, if somebody else
+didn't get her before Thursday. I then started, bidding them good day,
+and went by the house of a justice of the peace, who lived on the way to
+my father's, and made a bargain with him to marry me.
+
+When Thursday came, all necessary arrangements were made at my father's
+to receive my wife; and so I took my eldest brother and his wife, and
+another brother, and a single sister that I had, and two other young men
+with me, and cut out to her father's house to get her. We went on, until
+we got within two miles of the place, where we met a large company that
+had heard of the wedding, and were waiting. Some of that company went on
+with my brother and sister, and the young man I had picked out to wait
+on me. When they got there, they found the old lady as wrathy as ever.
+However the old man filled their bottle, and the young men returned in a
+hurry. I then went on with my company, and when I arrived I never
+pretended to dismount from my horse, but rode up to the door, and asked
+the girl if she was ready; and she said she was. I then told her to
+light on the horse I was leading; and she did so. Her father, though,
+had gone out to the gate, and when I started he commenced persuading me
+to stay and marry there; that he was entirely willing to the match, and
+that his wife, like most women, had entirely too much tongue; but that I
+oughtn't to mind her. I told him if she would ask me to stay and marry
+at her house, I would do so. With that he sent for her, and after they
+had talked for some time out by themselves, she came to me and looked at
+me mighty good, and asked my pardon for what she had said, and invited
+me stay. She said it was the first child she had ever had to marry; and
+she couldn't bear to see her go off in that way; that if I would light,
+she would do the best she could for us. I couldn't stand every thing,
+and so I agreed, and we got down, and went in. I sent off then for my
+parson, and got married in a short time; for I was afraid to wait long,
+for fear of another defeat. We had as good treatment as could be
+expected; and that night all went on well. The next day we cut out for
+my father's, where we met a large company of people, that had been
+waiting a day and a night for our arrival. We passed the time quite
+merrily, until the company broke up; and having gotten my wife, I
+thought I was completely made up, and needed nothing more in the whole
+world. But I soon found this was all a mistake--for now having a wife, I
+wanted every thing else; and, worse than all, I had nothing to give for
+it.
+
+I remained a few days at my father's, and then went back to my new
+father-in-law's; where, to my surprise, I found my old Irish mother in
+the finest humour in the world.
+
+She gave us two likely cows and calves, which, though it was a small
+marriage-portion, was still better than I had expected, and, indeed, it
+was about all I ever got. I rented a small farm and cabin, and went to
+work; but I had much trouble to find out a plan to get any thing to put
+in my house. At this time, my good old friend the Quaker came forward to
+my assistance, and gave me an order to a store for fifteen dollars'
+worth of such things as my little wife might choose. With this, we
+fixed up pretty grand, as we thought, and allowed to get on very well.
+My wife had a good wheel, and knowed exactly how to use it. She was also
+a good weaver, as most of the Irish are, whether men or women; and being
+very industrious with her wheel, she had, in little or no time, a fine
+web of cloth, ready to make up; and she was good at that too, and at
+almost any thing else that a woman could do.
+
+We worked on for some years, renting ground, and paying high rent, until
+I found it wan't the thing it was cracked up to be; and that I couldn't
+make a fortune at it just at all. So I concluded to quit it, and cut out
+for some new country. In this time we had two sons, and I found I was
+better at increasing my family than my fortune. It was therefore the
+more necessary that I should hunt some better place to get along; and as
+I knowed I would have to move at some time, I thought it was better to
+do it before my family got too large, that I might have less to carry.
+
+The Duck and Elk river country was just beginning to settle, and I
+determined to try that. I had now one old horse, and a couple of two
+year old colts. They were both broke to the halter, and my father-in-law
+proposed, that, if I went, he would go with me, and take one horse to
+help me move. So we all fixed up, and I packed my two colts with as many
+of my things as they could bear; and away we went across the mountains.
+We got on well enough, and arrived safely in Lincoln county, on the head
+of the Mulberry fork of Elk river. I found this a very rich country, and
+so new, that game, of different sorts, was very plenty. It was here that
+I began to distinguish myself as a hunter, and to lay the foundation for
+all my future greatness; but mighty little did I know of what sort it
+was going to be. Of deer and smaller game I killed abundance; but the
+bear had been much hunted in those parts before, and were not so plenty
+as I could have wished. I lived here in the years 1809 and '10, to the
+best of my recollection, and then I moved to Franklin county, and
+settled on Beans creek, where I remained till after the close of the
+last war.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER V.
+
+
+I was living ten miles below Winchester when the Creek war commenced;
+and as military men are making so much fuss in the world at this time, I
+must give an account of the part I took in the defence of the country.
+If it should make me president, why I can't help it; such things will
+sometimes happen; and my pluck is, never "to seek, nor decline office."
+
+It is true, I had a little rather not; but yet, if the government can't
+get on without taking another president from Tennessee, to finish the
+work of "retrenchment and reform," why, then, I reckon I must go in for
+it. But I must begin about the war, and leave the other matter for the
+people to begin on.
+
+The Creek Indians had commenced their open hostilities by a most bloody
+butchery at Fort Mimms. There had been no war among us for so long, that
+but few, who were not too old to bear arms, knew any thing about the
+business. I, for one, had often thought about war, and had often heard
+it described; and I did verily believe in my own mind, that I couldn't
+fight in that way at all; but my after experience convinced me that this
+was all a notion. For when I heard of the mischief which was done at the
+fort, I instantly felt like going, and I had none of the dread of dying
+that I expected to feel. In a few days a general meeting of the militia
+was called for the purpose of raising volunteers; and when the day
+arrived for that meeting, my wife, who had heard me say I meant to go to
+the war, began to beg me not to turn out. She said she was a stranger in
+the parts where we lived, had no connexions living near her, and that
+she and our little children would be left in a lonesome and unhappy
+situation if I went away. It was mighty hard to go against such
+arguments as these; but my countrymen had been murdered, and I knew that
+the next thing would be, that the Indians would be scalping the women
+and children all about there, if we didn't put a stop to it. I reasoned
+the case with her as well as I could, and told her, that if every man
+would wait till his wife got willing for him to go to war, there would
+be no fighting done, until we would all be killed in our own houses;
+that I was as able to go as any man in the world; and that I believed
+it was a duty I owed to my country. Whether she was satisfied with this
+reasoning or not, she did not tell me; but seeing I was bent on it, all
+she did was to cry a little, and turn about to her work. The truth is,
+my dander was up, and nothing but war could bring it right again.
+
+I went to Winchester, where the muster was to be, and a great many
+people had collected, for there was as much fuss among the people about
+the war as there is now about moving the deposites. When the men were
+paraded, a lawyer by the name of Jones addressed us, and closed by
+turning out himself, and enquiring, at the same time, who among us felt
+like we could fight Indians? This was the same Mr. Jones who afterwards
+served in Congress, from the state of Tennessee. He informed us he
+wished to raise a company, and that then the men should meet and elect
+their own officers. I believe I was about the second or third man that
+step'd out; but on marching up and down the regiment a few times, we
+found we had a large company. We volunteered for sixty days, as it was
+supposed our services would not be longer wanted. A day or two after
+this we met and elected Mr. Jones our captain, and also elected our
+other officers. We then received orders to start on the next Monday
+week; before which time, I had fixed as well as I could to go, and my
+wife had equip'd me as well as she was able for the camp. The time
+arrived; I took a parting farewell of my wife and my little boys,
+mounted my horse, and set sail, to join my company. Expecting to be gone
+only a short time, I took no more clothing with me than I supposed would
+be necessary, so that if I got into an Indian battle, I might not be
+pestered with any unnecessary plunder, to prevent my having a fair shake
+with them. We all met and went ahead, till we passed Huntsville, and
+camped at a large spring called Beaty's spring. Here we staid for
+several days, in which time the troops began to collect from all
+quarters. At last we mustered about thirteen hundred strong, all mounted
+volunteers, and all determined to fight, judging from myself, for I felt
+wolfish all over. I verily believe the whole army was of the real grit.
+Our captain didn't want any other sort; and to try them he several times
+told his men, that if any of them wanted to go back home, they might do
+so at any time, before they were regularly mustered into the service.
+But he had the honour to command all his men from first to last, as not
+one of them left him.
+
+Gen'l. Jackson had not yet left Nashville with his old foot volunteers,
+that had gone with him to Natchez in 1812, the year before. While we
+remained at the spring, a Major Gibson came, and wanted some volunteers
+to go with him across the Tennessee river and into the Creek nation, to
+find out the movements of the Indians. He came to my captain, and asked
+for two of his best woods-men, and such as were best with a rifle. The
+captain pointed me out to him, and said he would be security that I
+would go as far as the major would himself, or any other man. I
+willingly engaged to go with him, and asked him to let me choose my own
+mate to go with me, which he said I might do. I chose a young man by the
+name of George Russell, a son of old Major Russell, of Tennessee. I
+called him up, but Major Gibson said he thought he hadn't beard enough
+to please him,--he wanted men, and not boys. I must confess I was a
+little nettled at this; for I know'd George Russell, and I know'd there
+was no mistake in him; and I didn't think that courage ought to be
+measured by the beard, for fear a goat would have the preference over a
+man. I told the major he was on the wrong scent; that Russell could go
+as far as he could, and I must have him along. He saw I was a little
+wrathy, and said I had the best chance of knowing, and agreed that it
+should be as I wanted it. He told us to be ready early in the morning
+for a start; and so we were. We took our camp equipage, mounted our
+horses, and, thirteen in number, including the major, we cut out. We
+went on, and crossed the Tennessee river at a place called Ditto's
+Landing; and then traveled about seven miles further, and took up camp
+for the night. Here a man by the name of John Haynes overtook us. He had
+been an Indian trader in that part of the nation, and was well
+acquainted with it. He went with us as a pilot. The next morning,
+however, Major Gibson and myself concluded we should separate and take
+different directions to see what discoveries we could make; so he took
+seven of the men, and I five, making thirteen in all, including myself.
+He was to go by the house of a Cherokee Indian, named Dick Brown, and I
+was to go by Dick's father's; and getting all the information we could,
+we were to meet that evening where the roads came together, fifteen
+miles the other side of Brown's. At old Mr. Brown's I got a half blood
+Cherokee to agree to go with me, whose name was Jack Thompson. He was
+not then ready to start, but was to fix that evening, and overtake us at
+the fork road where I was to meet Major Gibson. I know'd it wouldn't be
+safe to camp right at the road; and so I told Jack, that when he got to
+the fork he must holler like an owl, and I would answer him in the same
+way; for I know'd it would be night before he got there. I and my men
+then started, and went on to the place of meeting, but Major Gibson was
+not there. We waited till almost dark, but still he didn't come. We then
+left the Indian trace a little distance, and turning into the head of a
+hollow, we struck up camp. It was about ten o'clock at night, when I
+heard my owl, and I answered him. Jack soon found us, and we determined
+to rest there during the night. We staid also next morning till after
+breakfast: but in vain, for the major didn't still come.
+
+I told the men we had set out to hunt a fight, and I wouldn't go back in
+that way; that we must go ahead, and see what the red men were at. We
+started, and went to a Cherokee town about twenty miles off; and after a
+short stay there, we pushed on to the house of a man by the name of
+Radcliff. He was a white man, but had married a Creek woman, and lived
+just in the edge of the Creek nation. He had two sons, large likely
+fellows, and a great deal of potatoes and corn, and, indeed, almost
+every thing else to go on; so we fed our horses and got dinner with
+him, and seemed to be doing mighty well. But he was bad scared all the
+time. He told us there had been ten painted warriors at his house only
+an hour before, and if we were discovered there, they would kill us, and
+his family with us. I replied to him, that my business was to hunt for
+just such fellows as he had described, and I was determined not to go
+back until I had done it. Our dinner being over, we saddled up our
+horses, and made ready to start. But some of my small company I found
+were disposed to return. I told them, if we were to go back then, we
+should never hear the last of it; and I was determined to go ahead. I
+knowed some of them would go with me, and that the rest were afraid to
+go back by themselves; and so we pushed on to the camp of some of the
+friendly Creeks, which was distant about eight miles. The moon was about
+the full, and the night was clear; we therefore had the benefit of her
+light from night to morning, and I knew if we were placed in such danger
+as to make a retreat necessary, we could travel by night as well as in
+the day time.
+
+We had not gone very far, when we met two negroes, well mounted on
+Indian ponies, and each with a good rifle. They had been taken from
+their owners by the Indians, and were running away from them, and trying
+to get back to their masters again. They were brothers, both very large
+and likely, and could talk Indian as well as English. One of them I sent
+on to Ditto's Landing, the other I took back with me. It was after dark
+when we got to the camp, where we found about forty men, women, and
+children.
+
+They had bows and arrows, and I turned in to shooting with their boys by
+a pine light. In this way we amused ourselves very well for a while; but
+at last the negro, who had been talking to the Indians, came to me and
+told me they were very much alarmed, for the "red sticks," as they
+called the war party of the Creeks, would come and find us there; and,
+if so, we should all be killed. I directed him to tell them that I would
+watch, and if one would come that night, I would carry the skin of his
+head home to make me a mockasin. When he made this communication, the
+Indians laughed aloud. At about ten o'clock at night we all concluded to
+try to sleep a little; but that our horses might be ready for use, as
+the treasurer said of the drafts on the United States' bank, on certain
+"contingences," we tied them up with our saddles on them, and every
+thing to our hand, if in the night our quarters should get
+uncomfortable. We lay down with our guns in our arms, and I had just
+gotten into a dose of sleep, when I heard the sharpest scream that ever
+escaped the throat of a human creature. It was more like a wrathy
+painter than any thing else. The negro understood it, and he sprang to
+me; for tho' I heard the noise well enough, yet I wasn't wide awake
+enough to get up. So the negro caught me, and said the red sticks was
+coming. I rose quicker then, and asked what was the matter? Our negro
+had gone and talked with the Indian who had just fetched the scream, as
+he come into camp, and learned from him, that the war party had been
+crossing the Coosa river all day at the Ten islands; and were going on
+to meet Jackson, and this Indian had come as a runner. This news very
+much alarmed the friendly Indians in camp, and they were all off in a
+few minutes. I felt bound to make this intelligence known as soon as
+possible to the army we had left at the landing; and so we all mounted
+our horses, and put out in a long lope to make our way back to that
+place. We were about sixty-five miles off. We went on to the same
+Cherokee town we had visited on our way out, having first called at
+Radcliff's, who was off with his family; and at the town we found
+large fires burning, but not a single Indian was to be seen. They were
+all gone. These circumstances were calculated to lay our dander a
+little, as it appeared we must be in great danger; though we could
+easily have licked any force of not more than five to one. But we
+expected the whole nation would be on us, and against such fearful odds
+we were not so rampant for a fight.
+
+We therefore staid only a short time in the light of the fires about the
+town, preferring the light of the moon and the shade of the woods. We
+pushed on till we got again to old Mr. Brown's, which was still about
+thirty miles from where we had left the main army. When we got there,
+the chickens were just at the first crowing for day. We fed our horses,
+got a morsel to eat ourselves, and again cut out. About ten o'clock in
+the morning we reached the camp, and I reported to Col. Coffee the news.
+He didn't seem to mind my report a bit, and this raised my dander higher
+than ever; but I knowed I had to be on my best behaviour, and so I kept
+it all to myself; though I was so mad that I was burning inside like a
+tar-kiln, and I wonder that the smoke hadn't been pouring out of me at
+all points.
+
+Major Gibson hadn't yet returned, and we all began to think he was
+killed; and that night they put out a double guard. The next day the
+major got in, and brought a worse tale than I had, though he stated the
+same facts, so far as I went. This seemed to put our colonel all in a
+fidget; and it convinced me, clearly, of one of the hateful ways of the
+world. When I made my report, it wasn't believed, because I was no
+officer; I was no great man, but just a poor soldier. But when the same
+thing was reported by Major Gibson!! why, then, it was all as true as
+preaching, and the colonel believed it every word.
+
+He, therefore, ordered breastworks to be thrown up, near a quarter of a
+mile long, and sent an express to Fayetteville, where General Jackson
+and his troops was, requesting them to push on like the very mischief,
+for fear we should all be cooked up to a cracklin before they could get
+there. Old Hickory-face made a forced march on getting the news; and on
+the next day, he and his men got into camp, with their feet all
+blistered from the effects of their swift journey. The volunteers,
+therefore, stood guard altogether, to let them rest.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VI.
+
+
+About eight hundred of the volunteers, and of that number I was one,
+were now sent back, crossing the Tennessee river, and on through
+Huntsville, so as to cross the river again at another place, and to get
+on the Indians in another direction. After we passed Huntsville, we
+struck on the river at the Muscle Shoals, and at a place on them called
+Melton's Bluff. This river is here about two miles wide, and a rough
+bottom; so much so, indeed, in many places, as to be dangerous; and in
+fording it this time, we left several of the horses belonging to our
+men, with their feet fast in the crevices of the rocks. The men, whose
+horses were thus left, went ahead on foot. We pushed on till we got to
+what was called the Black Warrior's town, which stood near the very spot
+where Tuscaloosa now stands, which is the seat of government for the
+state of Alabama.
+
+This Indian town was a large one; but when we arrived we found the
+Indians had all left it. There was a large field of corn standing out,
+and a pretty good supply in some cribs. There was also a fine quantity
+of dried beans, which were very acceptable to us; and without delay we
+secured them as well as the corn, and then burned the town to ashes;
+after which we left the place.
+
+In the field where we gathered the corn we saw plenty of fresh Indian
+tracks, and we had no doubt they had been scared off by our arrival.
+
+We then went on to meet the main army at the fork road, where I was
+first to have met Major Gibson. We got that evening as far back as the
+encampment we had made the night before we reached the Black Warrior's
+town, which we had just destroyed. The next day we were entirely out of
+meat. I went to Col. Coffee, who was then in command of us, and asked
+his leave to hunt as we marched. He gave me leave, but told me to take
+mighty good care of myself. I turned aside to hunt, and had not gone far
+when I found a deer that had just been killed and skinned, and his flesh
+was still warm and smoking. From this I was sure that the Indian who had
+killed it had been gone only a very few minutes; and though I was never
+much in favour of one hunter stealing from another, yet meat was so
+scarce in camp, that I thought I must go in for it. So I just took up
+the deer on my horse before me, and carried it on till night. I could
+have sold it for almost any price I would have asked; but this wasn't my
+rule, neither in peace nor war. Whenever I had any thing, and saw a
+fellow being suffering, I was more anxious to relieve him than to
+benefit myself. And this is one of the true secrets of my being a poor
+man to this day. But it is my way; and while it has often left me with
+an empty purse, which is as near the devil as any thing else I have
+seen, yet it has never left my heart empty of consolations which money
+couldn't buy,--the consolations of having sometimes fed the hungry and
+covered the naked.
+
+I gave all my deer away, except a small part I kept for myself, and just
+sufficient to make a good supper for my mess; for meat was getting to be
+a rarity to us all. We had to live mostly on parched corn. The next day
+we marched on, and at night took up camp near a large cane brake. While
+here, I told my mess I would again try for some meat; so I took my rifle
+and cut out, but hadn't gone far, when I discovered a large gang of
+hogs. I shot one of them down in his tracks, and the rest broke directly
+towards the camp. In a few minutes, the guns began to roar, as bad as if
+the whole army had been in an Indian battle; and the hogs to squeal as
+bad as the pig did, when the devil turned barber. I shouldered my hog,
+and went on to the camp; and when I got there I found they had killed a
+good many of the hogs, and a fine fat cow into the bargain, that had
+broke out of the cane brake. We did very well that night, and the next
+morning marched on to a Cherokee town, where our officers stop'd, and
+gave the inhabitants an order on Uncle Sam for their cow, and the hogs
+we had killed. The next day we met the main army, having had, as we
+thought, hard times, and a plenty of them, though we had yet seen hardly
+the beginning of trouble.
+
+After our meeting we went on to Radcliff's, where I had been before
+while out as a spy; and when we got there, we found he had hid all his
+provisions. We also got into the secret, that he was the very rascal who
+had sent the runner to the Indian camp, with the news that the "red
+sticks" were crossing at the Ten Islands; and that his object was to
+scare me and my men away, and send us back with a false alarm.
+
+To make some atonement for this, we took the old scroundrell's two big
+sons with us, and made them serve in the war.
+
+We then marched to a place, which we called Camp Wills; and here it was
+that Captain Cannon was promoted to a colonel, and Colonel Coffee to a
+general. We then marched to the Ten Islands, on the Coosa river, where
+we established a fort; and our spy companies were sent out. They soon
+made prisoners of Bob Catala and his warriors, and, in a few days
+afterwards, we heard of some Indians in a town about eight miles off. So
+we mounted our horses, and put out for that town, under the direction of
+two friendly Creeks we had taken for pilots. We had also a Cherokee
+colonel, Dick Brown, and some of his men with us. When we got near the
+town we divided; one of our pilots going with each division. And so we
+passed on each side of the town, keeping near to it, until our lines met
+on the far side. We then closed up at both ends, so as to surround it
+completely; and then we sent Captain Hammond's company of rangers to
+bring on the affray. He had advanced near the town, when the Indians saw
+him, and they raised the yell, and came running at him like so many red
+devils. The main army was now formed in a hollow square around the town,
+and they pursued Hammond till they came in reach of us. We then gave
+them a fire, and they returned it, and then ran back into their town. We
+began to close on the town by making our files closer and closer, and
+the Indians soon saw they were our property. So most of them wanted us
+to take them prisoners; and their squaws and all would run and take hold
+of any of us they could, and give themselves up. I saw seven squaws have
+hold of one man, which made me think of the Scriptures. So I hollered
+out the Scriptures was fulfilling; that there was seven women holding to
+one man's coat tail. But I believe it was a hunting-shirt all the time.
+We took them all prisoners that came out to us in this way; but I saw
+some warriors run into a house, until I counted forty-six of them. We
+pursued them until we got near the house, when we saw a squaw sitting in
+the door, and she placed her feet against the bow she had in her hand,
+and then took an arrow, and, raising her feet, she drew with all her
+might, and let fly at us, and she killed a man, whose name, I believe,
+was Moore. He was a lieutenant, and his death so enraged us all, that
+she was fired on, and had at least twenty balls blown through her. This
+was the first man I ever saw killed with a bow and arrow. We now shot
+them like dogs; and then set the house on fire, and burned it up with
+the forty-six warriors in it. I recollect seeing a boy who was shot down
+near the house. His arm and thigh was broken, and he was so near the
+burning house that the grease was stewing out of him. In this situation
+he was still trying to crawl along; but not a murmur escaped him, though
+he was only about twelve years old. So sullen is the Indian, when his
+dander is up, that he had sooner die than make a noise, or ask for
+quarters.
+
+The number that we took prisoners, being added to the number we killed,
+amounted to one hundred and eighty-six; though I don't remember the
+exact number of either. We had five of our men killed. We then returned
+to our camp, at which our fort was erected, and known by the name of
+Fort Strother. No provisions had yet reached us, and we had now been for
+several days on half rations. However we went back to our Indian town on
+the next day, when many of the carcasses of the Indians were still to be
+seen. They looked very awful, for the burning had not entirely consumed
+them, but given them a very terrible appearance, at least what remained
+of them. It was, somehow or other, found out that the house had a
+potatoe cellar under it, and an immediate examination was made, for we
+were all as hungry as wolves. We found a fine chance of potatoes in it,
+and hunger compelled us to eat them, though I had a little rather not,
+if I could have helped it, for the oil of the Indians we had burned up
+on the day before had run down on them, and they looked like they had
+been stewed with fat meat. We then again returned to the army, and
+remained there for several days almost starving, as all our beef was
+gone. We commenced eating the beef-hides, and continued to eat every
+scrap we could lay our hands on. At length an Indian came to our guard
+one night, and hollered, and said he wanted to see "Captain Jackson." He
+was conducted to the general's markee, into which he entered, and in a
+few minutes we received orders to prepare for marching.
+
+In an hour we were all ready, and took up the line of march. We crossed
+the Coosa river, and went on in the direction to Fort Taladega. When we
+arrived near the place, we met eleven hundred painted warriors, the very
+choice of the Creek nation. They had encamped near the fort, and had
+informed the friendly Indians who were in it, that if they didn't come
+out, and fight with them against the whites, they would take their fort
+and all their ammunition and provision. The friendly party asked three
+days to consider of it, and agreed that if on the third day they didn't
+come out ready to fight with them, they might take their fort. Thus
+they put them off. They then immediately started their runner to General
+Jackson, and he and the army pushed over, as I have just before stated.
+
+The camp of warriors had their spies out, and discovered us coming, some
+time before we got to the fort. They then went to the friendly Indians,
+and told them Captain Jackson was coming, and had a great many fine
+horses, and blankets, and guns, and every thing else; and if they would
+come out and help to whip him, and to take his plunder, it should all be
+divided with those in the fort. They promised that when Jackson came,
+they would then come out and help to whip him. It was about an hour by
+sun in the morning, when we got near the fort. We were piloted by
+friendly Indians, and divided as we had done on a former occasion, so as
+to go to the right and left of the fort, and, consequently, of the
+warriors who were camped near it. Our lines marched on, as before, till
+they met in front, and then closed in the rear, forming again into a
+hollow square. We then sent on old Major Russell, with his spy company,
+to bring on the battle; Capt. Evans' company went also. When they got
+near the fort, the top of it was lined with the friendly Indians,
+crying out as loud as they could roar, "How-dy-do, brother, how-dy-do?"
+They kept this up till Major Russel had passed by the fort, and was
+moving on towards the warriors. They were all painted as red as scarlet,
+and were just as naked as they were born. They had concealed themselves
+under the bank of a branch, that ran partly around the fort, in the
+manner of a half moon. Russel was going right into their circle, for he
+couldn't see them, while the Indians on the top of the fort were trying
+every plan to show him his danger. But he couldn't understand them. At
+last, two of them jumped from it, and ran, and took his horse by the
+bridle, and pointing to where they were, told him there were thousands
+of them lying under the bank. This brought them to a halt, and about
+this moment the Indians fired on them, and came rushing forth like a
+cloud of Egyptian locusts, and screaming like all the young devils had
+been turned loose, with the old devil of all at their head. Russel's
+company quit their horses, and took into the fort, and their horses ran
+up to our line, which was then in full view. The warriors then came
+yelling on, meeting us, and continued till they were within shot of us,
+when we fired and killed a considerable number of them. They then broke
+like a gang of steers, and ran across to our other line, where they
+were again fired on; and so we kept them running from one line to the
+other, constantly under a heavy fire, until we had killed upwards of
+four hundred of them. They fought with guns, and also with their bows
+and arrows; but at length they made their escape through a part of our
+line, which was made up of drafted militia, which broke ranks, and they
+passed. We lost fifteen of our men, as brave fellows as ever lived or
+died. We buried them all in one grave, and started back to our fort; but
+before we got there, two more of our men died of wounds they had
+received; making our total loss seventeen good fellows in that battle.
+
+We now remained at the fort a few days, but no provision came yet, and
+we were all likely to perish. The weather also began to get very cold;
+and our clothes were nearly worn out, and horses getting very feeble and
+poor. Our officers proposed to Gen'l. Jackson to let us return home and
+get fresh horses, and fresh clothing, so as to be better prepared for
+another campaign; for our sixty days had long been out, and that was the
+time we entered for.
+
+But the general took "the responsibility" on himself, and refused. We
+were, however, determined to go, as I am to put back the deposites, _if
+I can_. With this, the general issued his orders against it, as he has
+against the bank. But we began to fix for a start, as provisions were
+too scarce; just as Clay, and Webster, and myself are preparing to fix
+bank matters, on account of the scarcity of money. The general went and
+placed his cannon on a bridge we had to cross, and ordered out his
+regulars and drafted men to keep us from crossing; just as he has
+planted his Globe and K. C. to alarm the bank men, while his regulars
+and militia in Congress are to act as artillery men. But when the
+militia started to guard the bridge, they would holler back to us to
+bring their knapsacks along when we come, for they wanted to go as bad
+as we did; just as many a good fellow now wants his political knapsack
+brought along, that if, when we come to vote, he sees he has a _fair
+shake to go_, he may join in and help us to take back the deposites.
+
+We got ready and moved on till we came near the bridge, where the
+general's men were all strung along on both sides, just like the
+office-holders are now, to keep us from getting along to the help of the
+country and the people. But we all had our flints ready picked, and our
+guns ready primed, that if we were fired on we might fight our way
+through, or all die together; just as we are now determined to save the
+country from ready ruin, or to sink down with it. When we came still
+nearer the bridge we heard the guards cocking their guns, and we did the
+same; just as we have had it in Congress, while the "government"
+regulars and the people's volunteers have all been setting their
+political triggers. But, after all, we marched boldly on, and not a gun
+was fired, nor a life lost; just as I hope it will be again, that we
+shall not be afraid of the general's Globe, nor his K. C., nor his
+regulars, nor their trigger snapping; but just march boldly over the
+executive bridge, and take the deposites back where the law placed them,
+and where they ought to be. When we had passed, no further attempt was
+made to stop us; but the general said, we were "the damned'st volunteers
+he had ever seen in his life; that we would volunteer and go out and
+fight, and then at our pleasure would _volunteer_ and go home again, in
+spite of the devil." But we went on; and near Huntsville we met a
+reinforcement who were going on to join the army. It consisted of a
+regiment of volunteers, and was under the command of some one whose name
+I can't remember. They were sixty-day volunteers.
+
+We got home pretty safely, and in a short time we had procured fresh
+horses and a supply of clothing better suited for the season; and then
+we returned to Fort Deposite, where our officers held a sort of a
+"_national convention_" on the subject of a message they had received
+from General Jackson,--demanding that on our return we should serve out
+_six months_. We had already served three months instead of two, which
+was the time we had volunteered for. On the next morning the officers
+reported to us the conclusions they had come to; and told us, if any of
+us felt bound to go on and serve out the six months, we could do so; but
+that they intended to go back home. I knowed if I went back home I
+couldn't rest, for I felt it my duty to be out; and when out was,
+somehow or other, always delighted to be in the very thickest of the
+danger. A few of us, therefore, determined to push on and join the army.
+The number I do not recollect, but it was very small.
+
+When we got out there, I joined Major Russel's company of spies. Before
+we reached the place, General Jackson had started. We went on likewise,
+and overtook him at a place where we established a fort, called Fort
+Williams, and leaving men to guard it, we went ahead; intending to go to
+a place called the Horse-shoe bend of the Talapoosa river. When we came
+near that place, we began to find Indian sign plenty, and we struck up
+camp for the night. About two hours before day, we heard our guard
+firing, and we were all up in little or no time. We mended up our camp
+fires, and then fell back in the dark, expecting to see the Indians
+pouring in; and intending, when they should do so, to shoot them by the
+light of our own fires. But it happened that they did not rush in as we
+had expected, but commenced a fire on us as we were. We were encamped in
+a hollow square, and we not only returned the fire, but continued to
+shoot as well as we could in the dark, till day broke, when the Indians
+disappeared. The only guide we had in shooting was to notice the flash
+of their guns, and then shoot as directly at the place as we could
+guess.
+
+In this scrape we had four men killed, and several wounded; but whether
+we killed any of the Indians or not we never could tell, for it is their
+custom always to carry off their dead, if they can possibly do so. We
+buried ours, and then made a large log heap over them, and set it on
+fire, so that the place of their deposite might not be known to the
+savages, who, we knew, would seek for them, that they might scalp them.
+We made some horse litters for our wounded, and took up a retreat. We
+moved on till we came to a large creek which we had to cross; and about
+half of our men had crossed, when the Indians commenced firing on our
+left wing, and they kept it up very warmly. We had left Major Russel and
+his brother at the camp we had moved from that morning, to see what
+discovery they could make as to the movements of the Indians; and about
+this time, while a warm fire was kept up on our left, as I have just
+stated, the major came up in our rear, and was closely pursued by a
+large number of Indians, who immediately commenced a fire on our
+artillery men. They hid themselves behind a large log, and could kill
+one of our men almost every shot, they being in open ground and exposed.
+The worst of all was, two of our colonels just at this trying moment
+left their men, and by _a forced march_, crossed the creek out of the
+reach of the fire. Their names, at this late day, would do the world no
+good, and my object is history alone, and not the slightest interference
+with character. An opportunity was now afforded for Governor Carroll to
+distinguish himself, and on this occasion he did so, by greater bravery
+than I ever saw any other man display. In truth, I believe, as firmly as
+I do that General Jackson is president, that if it hadn't been for
+Carroll, we should all have been genteely licked that time, for we were
+in a devil of a fix; part of our men on one side of the creek, and part
+on the other, and the Indians all the time pouring it on us, as hot as
+fresh mustard to a sore shin. I will not say exactly that the old
+general was whip'd; but I will say, that if we escaped it at all, it was
+like old Henry Snider going to heaven, "mita tam tite squeeze." I think
+he would confess himself, that he was nearer whip'd this time than he
+was at any other, for I know that all the world couldn't make him
+acknowledge that he was _pointedly_ whip'd. I know I was mighty glad
+when it was over, and the savages quit us, for I had begun to think
+there was one behind every tree in the woods.
+
+We buried our dead, the number of whom I have also forgotten; and again
+made horse litters to carry our wounded, and so we put out, and returned
+to Fort Williams, from which place we had started. In the mean time, my
+horse had got crippled, and was unfit for service, and as another
+reinforcement had arrived, I thought they could get along without me for
+a short time; so I got a furlough and went home, for we had had hard
+times again on this hunt, and I began to feel as though I had done
+Indian fighting enough for one time. I remained at home until after the
+army had returned to the Horse-shoe bend, and fought the battle there.
+But not being with them at that time, of course no history of that fight
+can be expected of me.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VII.
+
+
+Soon after this, an army was to be raised to go to Pensacola, and I
+determined to go again with them, for I wanted a small taste of British
+fighting, and I supposed they would be there.
+
+Here again the entreaties of my wife were thrown in the way of my going,
+but all in vain; for I always had a way of just going ahead, at whatever
+I had a mind to. One of my neighbours, hearing I had determined to go,
+came to me, and offered me a hundred dollars to go in his place as a
+substitute, as he had been drafted. I told him I was better raised than
+to hire myself out to be shot at; but that I would go, and he should go
+too, and in that way the government would have the services of us both.
+But we didn't call General Jackson "the government" in those days,
+though we used to go and fight under him in the war.
+
+I fixed up, and joined old Major Russel again; but we couldn't start
+with the main army, but followed on, in a little time, after them. In a
+day or two, we had a hundred and thirty men in our company; and we went
+over and crossed the Muscle Shoals at the same place where I had crossed
+when first out, and when we burned the Black Warriors' town. We passed
+through the Choctaw and Chickesaw nations, on to Fort Stephens, and from
+thence to what is called the Cut-off, at the junction of the Tom-Bigby
+with the Alabama river. This place is near the old Fort Mimms, where the
+Indians committed the great butchery at the commencement of the war.
+
+We were here about two days behind the main army, who had left their
+horses at the Cut-off, and taken it on foot; and they did this because
+there was no chance for forage between there and Pensacola. We did the
+same, leaving men enough to take care of our horses, and cut out on foot
+for that place. It was about eighty miles off; but in good heart we
+shouldered our guns, blankets, and provisions, and trudged merrily on.
+About twelve o'clock the second day, we reached the encampment of the
+main army, which was situated on a hill, overlooking the city of
+Pensacola. My commander, Major Russel, was a great favourite with Gen'l.
+Jackson, and our arrival was hailed with great applause, though we were
+a little after the feast; for they had taken the town and fort before we
+got there. That evening we went down into the town, and could see the
+British fleet lying in sight of the place. We got some liquor, and took
+a "horn" or so, and went back to the camp. We remained there that night,
+and in the morning we marched back towards the Cut-off. We pursued this
+direction till we reached old Fort Mimms, where we remained two or three
+days. It was here that Major Russel was promoted from his command, which
+was only that of a captain of spies, to the command of a major in the
+line. He had been known long before at home as old Major Russel, and so
+we all continued to call him in the army. A Major Childs, from East
+Tennessee, also commanded a battalion, and his and the one Russel was
+now appointed to command, composed a regiment, which, by agreement with
+General Jackson, was to quit his army and go to the south, to kill up
+the Indians on the Scamby river.
+
+General Jackson and the main army set out the next morning for New
+Orleans, and a Colonel Blue took command of the regiment which I have
+before described. We remained, however, a few days after the general's
+departure, and then started also on our route.
+
+As it gave rise to so much war and bloodshed, it may not be improper
+here to give a little description of Fort Mimms, and the manner in which
+the Indian war commenced. The fort was built right in the middle of a
+large old field, and in it the people had been forted so long and so
+quietly, that they didn't apprehend any danger at all, and had,
+therefore, become quite careless. A small negro boy, whose business it
+was to bring up the calves at milking time, had been out for that
+purpose, and on coming back, he said he saw a great many Indians. At
+this the inhabitants took the alarm, and closed their gates and placed
+out their guards, which they continued for a few days. But finding that
+no attack was made, they concluded the little negro had lied; and again
+threw their gates open, and set all their hands out to work their
+fields. The same boy was out again on the same errand, when, returning
+in great haste and alarm, he informed them that he had seen the Indians
+as thick as trees in the woods. He was not believed, but was tucked up
+to receive a flogging for the supposed lie; and was actually getting
+badly licked at the very moment when the Indians came in a troop, loaded
+with rails, with which they stop'd all the port-holes of the fort on one
+side except the bastion; and then they fell in to cutting down the
+picketing. Those inside the fort had only the bastion to shoot from, as
+all the other holes were spiked up; and they shot several of the
+Indians, while engaged in cutting. But as fast as one would fall,
+another would seize up the axe and chop away, until they succeeded in
+cutting down enough of the picketing to admit them to enter. They then
+began to rush through, and continued until they were all in. They
+immediately commenced scalping, without regard to age or sex; having
+forced the inhabitants up to one side of the fort, where they carried on
+the work of death as a butcher would in a slaughter pen.
+
+The scene was particularly described to me by a young man who was in the
+fort when it happened, and subsequently went on with us to Pensacola. He
+said that he saw his father, and mother, his four sisters, and the same
+number of brothers, all butchered in the most shocking manner, and that
+he made his escape by running over the heads of the crowd, who were
+against the fort wall, to the top of the fort, and then jumping off, and
+taking to the woods. He was closely pursued by several Indians, until he
+came to a small byo, across which there was a log. He knew the log was
+hollow on the under side, so he slip'd under the log and hid himself.
+He said he heard the Indians walk over him several times back and
+forward. He remained, nevertheless, still till night, when he came out,
+and finished his escape. The name of this young man has entirely escaped
+my recollection, though his tale greatly excited my feelings. But to
+return to my subject. The regiment marched from where Gen'l. Jackson had
+left us to Fort Montgomery, which was distant from Fort Mimms about a
+mile and a half, and there we remained for some days.
+
+Here we supplied ourselves pretty well with beef, by killing wild cattle
+which had formerly belonged to the people who perished in the fort, but
+had gone wild after their massacre.
+
+When we marched from Fort Montgomery, we went some distance back towards
+Pensacola; then we turned to the left, and passed through a poor piny
+country, till we reached the Scamby river, near which we encamped. We
+had about one thousand men, and as a part of that number, one hundred
+and eighty-six Chickesaw and Choctaw Indians with us. That evening a
+boat landed from Pensacola, bringing many articles that were both good
+and necessary; such as sugar and coffee, and liquors of all kinds. The
+same evening, the Indians we had along proposed to cross the river, and
+the officers thinking it might be well for them to do so, consented; and
+Major Russell went with them, taking sixteen white men, of which number
+I was one. We camped on the opposite bank that night, and early in the
+morning we set out. We had not gone far before we came to a place where
+the whole country was covered with water, and looked like a sea. We
+didn't stop for this, tho', but just put in like so many spaniels, and
+waded on, sometimes up to our armpits, until we reached the pine hills,
+which made our distance through the water about a mile and a half. Here
+we struck up a fire to warm ourselves, for it was cold, and we were
+chilled through by being so long in the water. We again moved on,
+keeping our spies out; two to our left near the bank of the river, two
+straight before us, and two others on our right. We had gone in this way
+about six miles up the river, when our spies on the left came to us
+leaping the brush like so many old bucks, and informed us that they had
+discovered a camp of Creek Indians, and that we must kill them. Here we
+paused for a few minutes, and the prophets pow-wowed over their men
+awhile, and then got out their paint, and painted them, all according to
+their custom when going into battle. They then brought their paint to
+old Major Russell, and said to him, that as he was an officer, he must
+be painted too. He agreed, and they painted him just as they had done
+themselves. We let the Indians understand that we white men would first
+fire on the camp, and then fall back, so as to give the Indians a chance
+to rush in and scalp them. The Chickasaws marched on our left hand, and
+the Choctaws on our right, and we moved on till we got in hearing of the
+camp, where the Indians were employed in beating up what they called
+chainy briar root. On this they mostly subsisted. On a nearer approach
+we found they were on an island, and that we could not get to them.
+While we were chatting about this matter, we heard some guns fired, and
+in a very short time after a keen whoop, which satisfied us, that
+whereever it was, there was war on a small scale. With that we all
+broke, like quarter horses, for the firing; and when we got there we
+found it was our two front spies, who related to us the following
+story:--As they were moving on, they had met with two Creeks who were
+out hunting their horses; as they approached each other, there was a
+large cluster of green bay bushes exactly between them, so that they
+were within a few feet of meeting before either was discovered. Our
+spies walked up to them, and speaking in the Shawnee tongue, informed
+them that General Jackson was at Pensacola, and they were making their
+escape, and wanted to know where they could get something to eat. The
+Creeks told them that nine miles up the Conaker, the river they were
+then on, there was a large camp of Creeks, and they had cattle and
+plenty to eat; and further, that their own camp was on an island about a
+mile off, and just below the mouth of the Conaker. They held their
+conversation and struck up a fire, and smoked together, and shook hands,
+and parted. One of the Creeks had a gun, the other had none; and as soon
+as they had parted, our Choctaws turned round and shot down the one that
+had the gun, and the other attempted to run off. They snapped several
+times at him, but the gun still missing fire, they took after him, and
+overtaking him, one of them struck him over the head with his gun, and
+followed up his blows till he killed him.
+
+The gun was broken in the combat, and they then fired off the gun of the
+Creek they had killed, and raised the war-whoop. When we reached them,
+they had cut off the heads of both the Indians; and each of those
+Indians with us would walk up to one of the heads, and taking his war
+club would strike on it. This was done by every one of them; and when
+they had got done, I took one of their clubs, and walked up as they had
+done, and struck it on the head also. At this they all gathered round
+me, and patting me on the shoulder, would call me "Warrior--warrior."
+
+They scalped the heads, and then we moved on a short distance to where
+we found a trace leading in towards the river. We took this trace and
+pursued it, till we came to where a Spaniard had been killed and
+scalped, together with a woman, who we supposed to be his wife, and also
+four children. I began to feel mighty ticklish along about this time,
+for I knowed if there was no danger then, there had been; and I felt
+exactly like there still was. We, however, went on till we struck the
+river, and then continued down it till we came opposite to the Indian
+camp, where we found they were still beating their roots.
+
+It was now late in the evening, and they were in a thick cane brake. We
+had some few friendly Creeks with us, who said they could decoy them. So
+we all hid behind trees and logs, while the attempt was made. The
+Indians would not agree that we should fire, but pick'd out some of
+their best gunners, and placed them near the river. Our Creeks went down
+to the river's side, and hailed the camp in the Creek language. We heard
+an answer, and an Indian man started down towards the river, but didn't
+come in sight. He went back and again commenced beating his roots, and
+sent a squaw. She came down, and talked with our Creeks until dark came
+on. They told her they wanted her to bring them a canoe. To which she
+replied, that their canoe was on our side; that two of their men had
+gone out to hunt their horses and hadn't yet returned. They were the
+same two we had killed. The canoe was found, and forty of our picked
+Indian warriors were crossed over to take the camp. There was at last
+only one man in it, and he escaped; and they took two squaws, and ten
+children, but killed none of them, of course.
+
+We had run nearly out of provisions, and Major Russell had determined to
+go up the Conaker to the camp we had heard of from the Indians we had
+killed. I was one that he selected to go down the river that night for
+provisions, with the canoe, to where we had left our regiment. I took
+with me a man by the name of John Guess, and one of the friendly Creeks,
+and cut out. It was very dark, and the river was so full that it
+overflowed the banks and the adjacent low bottoms. This rendered it very
+difficult to keep the channel, and particularly as the river was very
+crooked. At about ten o'clock at night we reached the camp, and were to
+return by morning to Major Russell, with provisions for his trip up the
+river; but on informing Colonel Blue of this arrangement, he vetoed it
+as quick as General Jackson did the bank bill; and said, if Major
+Russell didn't come back the next day, it would be bad times for him. I
+found we were not to go up the Conaker to the Indian camp, and a man of
+my company offered to go up in my place to inform Major Russell. I let
+him go; and they reached the major, as I was told, about sunrise in the
+morning, who immediately returned with those who were with him to the
+regiment, and joined us where we crossed the river, as hereafter stated.
+
+The next morning we all fixed up, and marched down the Scamby to a place
+called Miller's Landing, where we swam our horses across, and sent on
+two companies down on the side of the bay opposite to Pensacola, where
+the Indians had fled when the main army first marched to that place. One
+was the company of Captain William Russell, a son of the old major, and
+the other was commanded by a Captain Trimble. They went on, and had a
+little skirmish with the Indians. They killed some, and took all the
+balance prisoners, though I don't remember the numbers. We again met
+those companies in a day or two, and sent the prisoners they had taken
+on to Fort Montgomery, in charge of some of our Indians.
+
+I did hear, that after they left us, the Indians killed and scalped all
+the prisoners, and I never heard the report contradicted. I cannot
+positively say it was true, but I think it entirely probable, for it is
+very much like the Indian character.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VIII.
+
+
+When we made a move from the point where we met the companies, we set
+out for Chatahachy, the place for which we had started when we left Fort
+Montgomery. At the start we had taken only twenty days' rations of
+flour, and eight days' rations of beef; and it was now thirty-four days
+before we reached that place. We were, therefore, in extreme suffering
+for want of something to eat, and exhausted with our exposure and the
+fatigues of our journey. I remember well, that I had not myself tasted
+bread but twice in nineteen days. I had bought a pretty good supply of
+coffee from the boat that had reached us from Pensacola, on the Scamby,
+and on that we chiefly subsisted. At length, one night our spies came
+in, and informed us they had found Holm's village on the Chatahachy
+river; and we made an immediate push for that place. We traveled all
+night, expecting to get something to eat when we got there. We arrived
+about sunrise, and near the place prepared for battle. We were all so
+furious, that even the certainty of a pretty hard fight could not have
+restrained us. We made a furious charge on the town, but to our great
+mortification and surprise, there wasn't a human being in it. The
+Indians had all run off and left it. We burned the town, however; but,
+melancholy to tell, we found no provision whatever. We then turned
+about, and went back to the camp we had left the night before, as nearly
+starved as any set of poor fellows ever were in the world.
+
+We staid there only a little while, when we divided our regiment; and
+Major Childs, with his men, went back the way we had come for a
+considerable distance, and then turned to Baton Rouge, where they joined
+General Jackson and the main army on their return from Orleans. Major
+Russell and his men struck for Fort Decatur, on the Talapoosa river.
+Some of our friendly Indians, who knew the country, went on ahead of us,
+as we had no trail except the one they made to follow. With them we sent
+some of our ablest horses and men, to get us some provisions, to prevent
+us from absolutely starving to death. As the army marched, I hunted
+every day, and would kill every hawk, bird, and squirrel that I could
+find. Others did the same; and it was a rule with us, that when we
+stop'd at night, the hunters would throw all they killed in a pile, and
+then we would make a general division among all the men. One evening I
+came in, having killed nothing that day. I had a very sick man in my
+mess, and I wanted something for him to eat, even if I starved myself.
+So I went to the fire of a Captain Cowen, who commanded my company after
+the promotion of Major Russell, and informed him that I was on the hunt
+of something for a sick man to eat. I knowed the captain was as bad off
+as the rest of us, but I found him broiling a turkey's gizzard. He said
+he had divided the turkey out among the sick, that Major Smiley had
+killed it, and that nothing else had been killed that day. I immediately
+went to Smiley's fire, where I found him broiling another gizzard. I
+told him, that it was the first turkey I had ever seen have two
+gizzards. But so it was, I got nothing for my sick man. And now seeing
+that every fellow must shift for himself, I determined that in the
+morning, I would come up missing; so I took my mess and cut out to go
+ahead of the army. We know'd that nothing more could happen to us if we
+went than if we staid, for it looked like it was to be starvation any
+way; we therefore determined to go on the old saying, root hog or die.
+We passed two camps, at which our men, that had gone on before us, had
+killed Indians. At one they had killed nine, and at the other three.
+About daylight we came to a small river, which I thought was the Scamby;
+but we continued on for three days, killing little or nothing to eat;
+till, at last, we all began to get nearly ready to give up the ghost,
+and lie down and die; for we had no prospect of provision, and we knew
+we couldn't go much further without it.
+
+We came to a large prairie, that was about six miles across it, and in
+this I saw a trail which I knowed was made by bear, deer, and turkeys.
+We went on through it till we came to a large creek, and the low grounds
+were all set over with wild rye, looking as green as a wheat field. We
+here made a halt, unsaddled our horses, and turned them loose to graze.
+
+One of my companions, a Mr. Vanzant, and myself, then went up the low
+grounds to hunt. We had gone some distance, finding nothing; when at
+last, I found a squirrel; which I shot, but he got into a hole in the
+tree. The game was small, but necessity is not very particular; so I
+thought I must have him, and I climbed that tree thirty feet high,
+without a limb, and pulled him out of his hole. I shouldn't relate such
+small matters, only to show what lengths a hungry man will go to, to
+get something to eat. I soon killed two other squirrels, and fired at a
+large hawk. At this a large gang of turkeys rose from the cane brake,
+and flew across the creek to where my friend was, who had just before
+crossed it. He soon fired on a large gobler, and I heard it fall. By
+this time my gun was loaded again, and I saw one sitting on my side of
+the creek, which had flew over when he fired; so I blazed away, and down
+I brought him. I gathered him up, and a fine turkey he was. I now began
+to think we had struck a breeze of luck, and almost forgot our past
+sufferings, in the prospect of once more having something to eat. I
+raised the shout, and my comrade came to me, and we went on to our camp
+with the game we had killed. While we were gone, two of our mess had
+been out, and each of them had found a bee tree. We turned into cooking
+some of our game, but we had neither salt nor bread. Just at this
+moment, on looking down the creek, we saw our men, who had gone on
+before us for provisions, coming to us. They came up, and measured out
+to each man a cupfull of flower. With this, we thickened our soup, when
+our turkey was cooked, and our friends took dinner with us, and then
+went on.
+
+We now took our tomahawks, and went and cut our bee-trees, out of which
+we got a fine chance of honey; though we had been starving so long that
+we feared to eat much at a time, till, like the Irish by hanging, we got
+used to it again. We rested that night without moving our camp; and the
+next morning myself and Vanzant again turned out to hunt. We had not
+gone far, before I wounded a fine buck very badly; and while pursuing
+him, I was walking on a large tree that had fallen down, when from the
+top of it, a large bear broke out and ran off. I had no dogs, and I was
+sorry enough for it; for of all the hunting I ever did, I have always
+delighted most in bear hunting. Soon after this, I killed a large buck;
+and we had just gotten him to camp, when our poor starved army came up.
+They told us, that to lessen their sufferings as much as possible,
+Captain William Russell had had his horse led up to be shot for them to
+eat, just at the moment that they saw our men returning, who had carried
+on the flour.
+
+We were now about fourteen miles from Fort Decatur, and we gave away all
+our meat, and honey, and went on with the rest of the army. When we got
+there, they could give us only one ration of meat, but not a mouthful of
+bread. I immediately got a canoe, and taking my gun, crossed over the
+river, and went to the Big Warrior's town. I had a large hat, and I
+offered an Indian a silver dollar for my hat full of corn. He told me
+that his corn was all "_shuestea_," which in English means, it was all
+gone. But he showed me where an Indian lived, who, he said, had corn. I
+went to him, and made the same offer. He could talk a little broken
+English, and said to me, "You got any powder? You got bullet?" I told
+him I had. He then said, "Me swap my corn, for powder and bullet." I
+took out about ten bullets, and showed him; and he proposed to give me a
+hat full of corn for them. I took him up, mighty quick. I then offered
+to give him ten charges of powder for another hat full of corn. To this
+he agreed very willingly. So I took off my hunting-shirt, and tied up my
+corn; and though it had cost me very little of my powder and lead, yet I
+wouldn't have taken fifty silver dollars for it. I returned to the camp,
+and the next morning we started for the Hickory Ground, which was thirty
+miles off. It was here that General Jackson met the Indians, and made
+peace with the body of the nation.
+
+We got nothing to eat at this place, and we had yet to go forty-nine
+miles, over a rough and wilderness country, to Fort Williams. Parched
+corn, and but little even of that, was our daily subsistence. When we
+reached Fort Williams, we got one ration of pork and one of flour, which
+was our only hope until we could reach Fort Strother.
+
+The horses were now giving out, and I remember to have seen thirteen
+good horses left in one day, the saddles and bridles being thrown away.
+It was thirty-nine miles to Fort Strother, and we had to pass directly
+by Fort Talladego, where we first had the big Indian battle with the
+eleven hundred painted warriors. We went through the old battle ground,
+and it looked like a great gourd patch; the sculls of the Indians who
+were killed still lay scattered all about, and many of their frames were
+still perfect, as the bones had not separated. But about five miles
+before we got to this battle ground, I struck a trail, which I followed
+until it led me to one of their towns. Here I swap'd some more of my
+powder and bullets for a little corn.
+
+I pursued on, by myself, till some time after night, when I came up with
+the rest of the army. That night my company and myself did pretty well,
+as I divided out my corn among them. The next morning we met the East
+Tennessee troops, who were on their road to Mobile, and my youngest
+brother was with them. They had plenty of corn and provisions, and they
+gave me what I wanted for myself and my horse. I remained with them
+that night, though my company went across the Coosa river to the fort,
+where they also had the good fortune to find plenty of provisions. Next
+morning, I took leave of my brother and all my old neighbours, for there
+were a good many of them with him, and crossed over to my men at the
+fort. Here I had enough to go on, and after remaining a few days, cut
+out for home. Nothing more, worthy of the reader's attention, transpired
+till I was safely landed at home once more with my wife and children. I
+found them all well and doing well; and though I was only a rough sort
+of a backwoodsman, they seemed mighty glad to see me, however little the
+quality folks might suppose it. For I do reckon we love as hard in the
+backwood country, as any people in the whole creation.
+
+But I had been home only a few days, when we received orders to start
+again, and go on to the Black Warrior and Cahawba rivers, to see if
+there was no Indians there. I know'd well enough there was none, and I
+wasn't willing to trust my craw any more where there was neither any
+fighting to do, nor any thing to go on; and so I agreed to give a young
+man, who wanted to go, the balance of my wages if he would serve out my
+time, which was about a month. He did so, and when they returned, sure
+enough they hadn't seen an Indian any more than if they had been all the
+time chopping wood in my clearing. This closed my career as a warrior,
+and I am glad of it, for I like life now a heap better than I did then;
+and I am glad all over that I lived to see these times, which I should
+not have done if I had kept fooling along in war, and got used up at it.
+When I say I am glad, I just mean I am glad I am alive, for there is a
+confounded heap of things I an't glad of at all. I an't glad, for
+example, that the "government" moved the deposites, and if my military
+glory should take such a turn as to make me president after the
+general's time, I'll move them back; yes, I, the "government," will
+"take the responsibility," and move them back again. If I don't, I wish
+I may be shot.
+
+But I am glad that I am now through war matters, and I reckon the reader
+is too, for they have no fun in them at all; and less if he had had to
+pass through them first, and then to write them afterwards. But for the
+dullness of their narrative, I must try to make amends by relating some
+of the curious things that happened to me in private life, and when
+_forced_ to become a public man, as I shall have to be again, if ever I
+consent to take the presidential chair.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IX.
+
+
+I continued at home now, working my farm for two years, as the war
+finally closed soon after I quit the service. The battle at New Orleans
+had already been fought, and treaties were made with the Indians which
+put a stop to their hostilities.
+
+But in this time, I met with the hardest trial which ever falls to the
+lot of man. Death, that cruel leveller of all distinctions,--to whom the
+prayers and tears of husbands, and of even helpless infancy, are
+addressed in vain,--entered my humble cottage, and tore from my children
+an affectionate good mother, and from me a tender and loving wife.
+
+It is a scene long gone by, and one which it would be supposed I had
+almost forgotten; yet when I turn my memory back on it, it seems as but
+the work of yesterday. It was the doing of the Almighty, whose ways are
+always right, though we sometimes think they fall heavily on us; and as
+painful as is even yet the remembrance of her sufferings, and the loss
+sustained by my little children and myself, yet I have no wish to lift
+up the voice of complaint. I was left with three children; the two
+oldest were sons, the youngest a daughter, and, at that time, a mere
+infant. It appeared to me, at that moment, that my situation was the
+worst in the world. I couldn't bear the thought of scattering my
+children, and so I got my youngest brother, who was also married, and
+his family to live with me. They took as good care of my children as
+they well could, but yet it wasn't all like the care of a mother. And
+though their company was to me in every respect like that of a brother
+and sister, yet it fell far short of being like that of a wife. So I
+came to the conclusion it wouldn't do, but that I must have another
+wife.
+
+There lived in the neighbourhood, a widow lady whose husband had been
+killed in the war. She had two children, a son and daughter, and both
+quite small, like my own. I began to think, that as we were both in the
+same situation, it might be that we could do something for each other;
+and I therefore began to hint a little around the matter, as we were
+once and a while together. She was a good industrious woman, and owned a
+snug little farm, and lived quite comfortable. I soon began to pay my
+respects to her in real good earnest; but I was as sly about it as a fox
+when he is going to rob a hen-roost. I found that my company wasn't at
+all disagreeable to her; and I thought I could treat her children with
+so much friendship as to make her a good stepmother to mine, and in this
+I wan't mistaken, as we soon bargained, and got married, and then went
+ahead. In a great deal of peace we raised our first crop of children,
+and they are all married and doing well. But we had a second crop
+together; and I shall notice them as I go along, as my wife and myself
+both had a hand in them, and they therefore belong to the history of my
+second marriage.
+
+The next fall after this marriage, three of my neighbours and myself
+determined to explore a new country. Their names were Robinson, Frazier,
+and Rich. We set out for the Creek country, crossing the Tennessee
+river; and after having made a day's travel, we stop'd at the house of
+one of my old acquaintances, who had settled there after the war.
+Resting here a day, Frazier turned out to hunt, being a great hunter;
+but he got badly bit by a very poisonous snake, and so we left him and
+went on. We passed through a large rich valley, called Jones's valley,
+where several other families had settled, and continued our course till
+we came near to the place where Tuscaloosa now stands. Here we camped,
+as there were no inhabitants, and hobbled out our horses for the night.
+About two hours before day, we heard the bells on our horses going back
+the way we had come, as they had started to leave us. As soon as it was
+daylight, I started in pursuit of them on foot, and carrying my rifle,
+which was a very heavy one. I went ahead the whole day, wading creeks
+and swamps, and climbing mountains; but I couldn't overtake our horses,
+though I could hear of them at every house they passed. I at last found
+I couldn't catch up with them, and so I gave up the hunt, and turned
+back to the last house I had passed, and staid there till morning. From
+the best calculation we could make, I had walked over fifty miles that
+day; and the next morning I was so sore, and fatigued, that I felt like
+I couldn't walk any more. But I was anxious to get back to where I had
+left my company, and so I started and went on, but mighty slowly, till
+after the middle of the day. I now began to feel mighty sick, and had a
+dreadful head-ache. My rifle was so heavy, and I felt so weak, that I
+lay down by the side of the trace, in a perfect wilderness too, to see
+if I wouldn't get better. In a short time some Indians came along. They
+had some ripe melons, and wanted me to eat some, but I was so sick I
+couldn't. They then signed to me, that I would die, and be buried; a
+thing I was confoundedly afraid of myself. But I asked them how near it
+was to any house? By their signs, again, they made me understand it was
+a mile and a half. I got up to go; but when I rose, I reeled about like
+a cow with the blind staggers, or a fellow who had taken too many
+"horns." One of the Indians proposed to go with me, and carry my gun. I
+gave him half a dollar, and accepted his offer. We got to the house, by
+which time I was pretty far gone, but was kindly received, and got on to
+a bed. The woman did all she could for me with her warm teas, but I
+still continued bad enough, with a high fever, and generally out of my
+senses. The next day two of my neighbours were passing the road, and
+heard of my situation, and came to where I was. They were going nearly
+the route I had intended to go, to look at the country; and so they took
+me first on one of their horses, and then on the other, till they got me
+back to where I had left my company. I expected I would get better, and
+be able to go on with them, but, instead of this, I got worse and worse;
+and when we got there, I wan't able to sit up at all. I thought now the
+jig was mighty nigh up with me, but I determined to keep a stiff upper
+lip. They carried me to a house, and each of my comrades bought him a
+horse, and they all set out together, leaving me behind. I knew but
+little that was going on for about two weeks; but the family treated me
+with every possible kindness in their power, and I shall always feel
+thankful to them. The man's name was Jesse Jones. At the end of two
+weeks I began to mend without the help of a doctor, or of any doctor's
+means. In this time, however, as they told me, I was speechless for five
+days, and they had no thought that I would ever speak again,--in
+Congress or any where else. And so the woman, who had a bottle of
+Batesman's draps, thought if they killed me, I would only die any how,
+and so she would try it with me. She gave me the whole bottle, which
+throwed me into a sweat that continued on me all night; when at last I
+seemed to make up, and spoke, and asked her for a drink of water. This
+almost alarmed her, for she was looking every minute for me to die. She
+gave me the water, and, from that time, I began slowly to mend, and so
+kept on till I was able at last to walk about a little. I might easily
+have been mistaken for one of the Kitchen Cabinet, I looked so much
+like a ghost. I have been particular in giving a history of this
+sickness, not because I believe it will interest any body much now, nor,
+indeed, do I _certainly_ know that it ever will. But if I should be
+forced to take the "white house," then it will be good history; and
+every one will look on it as important. And I can't, for my life, help
+laughing now, to think, that when all my folks get around me, wanting
+good fat offices, how so many of them will say, "What a good thing it
+was that that kind woman had the bottle of draps, that saved PRESIDENT
+CROCKETT'S life,--the second greatest and best"!!!!! Good, says I, my
+noble fellow! You take the post office; or the navy; or the war office;
+or may-be the treasury. But if I give him the treasury, there's no devil
+if I don't make him agree first to fetch back them deposites. And if
+it's even the post office, I'll make him promise to keep his money
+'counts without any figuring, as that throws the whole concern heels
+over head in debt, in little or no time.
+
+But when I got so I could travel a little, I got a waggoner who was
+passing along to hawl me to where he lived, which was about twenty miles
+from my house. I still mended as we went along, and when we got to his
+stopping place, I hired one of his horses, and went on home. I was so
+pale, and so much reduced, that my face looked like it had been half
+soled with brown paper.
+
+When I got there, it was to the utter astonishment of my wife; for she
+supposed I was dead. My neighbours who had started with me had returned
+and took my horse home, which they had found with their's; and they
+reported that they had seen men who had helped to bury me; and who saw
+me draw my last breath. I know'd this was a whapper of a lie, as soon as
+I heard it. My wife had hired a man, and sent him out to see what had
+become of my money and other things; but I had missed the man as I went
+in, and he didn't return until some time after I got home, as he went
+all the way to where I lay sick, before he heard that I was still in the
+land of the living and a-kicking.
+
+The place on which I lived was sickly, and I was determined to leave it.
+I therefore set out the next fall to look at the country which had been
+purchased of the Chickasaw tribe of Indians. I went on to a place called
+Shoal Creek, about eighty miles from where I lived, and here again I got
+sick. I took the ague and fever, which I supposed was brought on me by
+camping out. I remained here for some time, as I was unable to go
+farther; and in that time, I became so well pleased with the country
+about there, that I resolved to settle in it. It was just only a little
+distance in the purchase, and no order had been established there; but I
+thought I could get along without order as well as any body else. And so
+I moved and settled myself down on the head of Shoal Creek. We remained
+here some two or three years, without any law at all; and so many bad
+characters began to flock in upon us, that we found it necessary to set
+up a sort of temporary government of our own. I don't mean that we made
+any president, and called him the "government," but we met and made what
+we called a corporation; and I reckon we called _it_ wrong, for it
+wa'n't a bank, and hadn't any deposites; and now they call the bank a
+corporation. But be this as it may, we lived in the back-woods, and
+didn't profess to know much, and no doubt used many wrong words. But we
+met, and appointed magistrates and constables to keep order. We didn't
+fix any laws for them, tho'; for we supposed they would know law enough,
+whoever they might be; and so we left it to themselves to fix the laws.
+
+I was appointed one of the magistrates; and when a man owed a debt, and
+wouldn't pay it, I and my constable ordered our warrant, and then he
+would take the man, and bring him before me for trial. I would give
+judgment against him, and then an order of an execution would easily
+scare the debt out of him. If any one was charged with marking his
+neighbour's hogs, or with stealing any thing, which happened pretty
+often in those days,--I would have him taken, and if there was tolerable
+grounds for the charge, I would have him well whip'd and cleared. We
+kept this up till our Legislature added us to the white settlements in
+Giles county; and appointed magistrates by law, to organize matters in
+the parts where I lived. They appointed nearly every man a magistrate
+who had belonged to our corporation. I was then, of course, made a
+squire according to law; though now the honour rested more heavily on me
+than before. For, at first, whenever I told my constable, says I--"Catch
+that fellow, and bring him up for trial"--away he went, and the fellow
+must come, dead or alive; for we considered this a good warrant, though
+it was only in verbal writings. But after I was appointed by the
+assembly, they told me, my warrants must be in real writing, and signed;
+and that I must keep a book, and write my proceedings in it. This was a
+hard business on me, for I could just barely write my own name; but to
+do this, and write the warrants too, was at least a huckleberry over my
+persimmon. I had a pretty well informed constable, however; and he aided
+me very much in this business. Indeed I had so much confidence in him,
+that I told him, when we should happen to be out anywhere, and see that
+a warrant was necessary, and would have a good effect, he need'nt take
+the trouble to come all the way to me to get one, but he could just fill
+out one; and then on the trial I could correct the whole business if he
+had committed any error. In this way I got on pretty well, till by care
+and attention I improved my handwriting in such manner as to be able to
+prepare my warrants, and keep my record book, without much difficulty.
+My judgments were never appealed from, and if they had been they would
+have stuck like wax, as I gave my decisions on the principles of common
+justice and honesty between man and man, and relied on natural born
+sense, and not on law, learning to guide me; for I had never read a page
+in a law book in all my life.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER X.
+
+
+About the time we were getting under good headway in our new government,
+a Capt. Matthews came to me and told me he was a candidate for the
+office of colonel of a regiment, and that I must run for first major in
+the same regiment. I objected to this, telling him that I thought I had
+done my share of fighting, and that I wanted nothing to do with military
+appointments.
+
+He still insisted, until at last I agreed, and of course had every
+reason to calculate on his support in my election. He was an early
+settler in that country, and made rather more corn than the rest of us;
+and knowing it would afford him a good opportunity to electioneer a
+little, he made a great corn husking, and a great frolic, and gave a
+general treat, asking every body over the whole country. Myself and my
+family were, of course, invited. When I got there, I found a very large
+collection of people, and some friend of mine soon informed me that the
+captain's son was going to offer against me for the office of major,
+which he had seemed so anxious for me to get. I cared nothing about the
+office, but it put my dander up high enough to see, that after he had
+pressed me so hard to offer, he was countenancing, if not encouraging, a
+secret plan to beat me. I took the old gentleman out, and asked him
+about it. He told me it was true his son was going to run as a
+candidate, and that he hated worse to run against me than any man in the
+county. I told him his son need give himself no uneasiness about that;
+that I shouldn't run against him for major, but against his daddy for
+colonel. He took me by the hand, and we went into the company. He then
+made a speech, and informed the people that I was his opponent. I
+mounted up for a speech too. I told the people the cause of my opposing
+him, remarking that as I had the whole family to run against any way, I
+was determined to levy on the head of the mess. When the time for the
+election came, his son was opposed by another man for major; and he and
+his daddy were both badly beaten. I just now began to take a rise, as in
+a little time I was asked to offer for the Legislature in the counties
+of Lawrence and Heckman.
+
+I offered my name in the month of February, and started about the first
+of March with a drove of horses to the lower part of the state of North
+Carolina. This was in the year 1821, and I was gone upwards of three
+months. I returned, and set out electioneering, which was a bran-fire
+new business to me. It now became necessary that I should tell the
+people something about the government, and an eternal sight of other
+things that I knowed nothing more about than I did about Latin, and law,
+and such things as that. I have said before that in those days none of
+us called Gen'l. Jackson the government, nor did he seem in as fair a
+way to become so as I do now; but I knowed so little about it, that if
+any one had told me he was "the government," I should have believed it,
+for I had never read even a newspaper in my life, or any thing else, on
+the subject. But over all my difficulties, it seems to me I was born for
+luck, though it would be hard for any one to guess what sort. I will,
+however, explain that hereafter.
+
+I went first into Heckman county, to see what I could do among the
+people as a candidate. Here they told me that they wanted to move their
+town nearer to the centre of the county, and I must come out in favour
+of it. There's no devil if I knowed what this meant, or how the town was
+to be moved; and so I kept dark, going on the identical same plan that I
+now find is called "_non-committal_." About this time there was a great
+squirrel hunt on Duck river, which was among my people. They were to
+hunt two days: then to meet and count the scalps, and have a big
+barbecue, and what might be called a tip-top country frolic. The dinner,
+and a general treat, was all to be paid for by the party having taken
+the fewest scalps. I joined one side, taking the place of one of the
+hunters, and got a gun ready for the hunt. I killed a great many
+squirrels, and when we counted scalps, my party was victorious.
+
+The company had every thing to eat and drink that could be furnished in
+so new a country, and much fun and good humour prevailed. But before the
+regular frolic commenced, I mean the dancing, I was called on to make a
+speech as a candidate; which was a business I was as ignorant of as an
+outlandish negro.
+
+A public document I had never seen, nor did I know there were such
+things; and how to begin I couldn't tell. I made many apologies, and
+tried to get off, for I know'd I had a man to run against who could
+speak prime, and I know'd, too, that I wa'n't able to shuffle and cut
+with him. He was there, and knowing my ignorance as well as I did
+myself, he also urged me to make a speech. The truth is, he thought my
+being a candidate was a mere matter of sport; and didn't think, for a
+moment, that he was in any danger from an ignorant back-woods bear
+hunter. But I found I couldn't get off, and so I determined just to go
+ahead, and leave it to chance what I should say. I got up and told the
+people, I reckoned they know'd what I come for, but if not, I could tell
+them. I had come for their votes, and if they didn't watch mighty close,
+I'd get them too. But the worst of all was, that I couldn't tell them
+any thing about government. I tried to speak about something, and I
+cared very little what, until I choaked up as bad as if my mouth had
+been jam'd and cram'd chock full of dry mush. There the people stood,
+listening all the while, with their eyes, mouths and ear all open, to
+catch every word I would speak.
+
+At last I told them I was like a fellow I had heard of not long before.
+He was beating on the head of an empty barrel near the road-side, when a
+traveler, who was passing along, asked him what he was doing that for?
+The fellow replied, that there was some cider in that barrel a few days
+before, and he was trying to see if there was any then, but if there was
+he couldn't get at it. I told them that there had been a little bit of a
+speech in me a while ago, but I believed I couldn't get it out. They
+all roared out in a mighty laugh, and I told some other anecdotes,
+equally amusing to them, and believing I had them in a first-rate way, I
+quit and got down, thanking the people for their attention. But I took
+care to remark that I was as dry as a powder horn, and that I thought it
+was time for us all to wet our whistles a little; and so I put off to
+the liquor stand, and was followed by the greater part of the crowd.
+
+I felt certain this was necessary, for I knowed my competitor could open
+government matters to them as easy as he pleased. He had, however,
+mighty few left to hear him, as I continued with the crowd, now and then
+taking a horn, and telling good humoured stories, till he was done
+speaking. I found I was good for the votes at the hunt, and when we
+broke up, I went on to the town of Vernon, which was the same they
+wanted me to move. Here they pressed me again on the subject, and I
+found I could get either party by agreeing with them. But I told them I
+didn't know whether it would be right or not, and so couldn't promise
+either way.
+
+Their court commenced on the next Monday, as the barbacue was on a
+Saturday, and the candidates for governor and for Congress, as well as
+my competitor and myself, all attended. The thought of having to make a
+speech made my knees feel mighty weak, and set my heart to fluttering
+almost as bad as my first love scrape with the Quaker's niece. But as
+good luck would have it, these big candidates spoke nearly all day, and
+when they quit, the people were worn out with fatigue, which afforded me
+a good apology for not discussing the government. But I listened mighty
+close to them, and was learning pretty fast about political matters.
+When they were all done, I got up and told some laughable story, and
+quit. I found I was safe in those parts, and so I went home, and didn't
+go back again till after the election was over. But to cut this matter
+short, I was elected, doubling my competitor, and nine votes over.
+
+A short time after this, I was in Pulaski, where I met with Colonel
+Polk, now a member of Congress from Tennessee. He was at that time a
+member elected to the Legislature, as well as myself; and in a large
+company he said to me, "Well, colonel, I suppose we shall have a radical
+change of the judiciary at the next session of the Legislature." "Very
+likely, sir," says I, and I put out quicker, for I was afraid some one
+would ask me what the judiciary was; and if I knowed I wish I may be
+shot. I don't indeed believe I had ever before heard that there was any
+such thing in all nature; but still I was not willing that the people
+there should know how ignorant I was about it.
+
+When the time for meeting of the Legislature arrived, I went on, and
+before I had been there long, I could have told what the judiciary was,
+and what the government was too; and many other things that I had known
+nothing about before.
+
+About this time I met with a very severe misfortune, which I may be
+pardoned for naming, as it made a great change in my circumstances, and
+kept me back very much in the world. I had built an extensive grist
+mill, and powder mill, all connected together, and also a large
+distillery. They had cost me upwards of three thousand dollars, more
+than I was worth in the world. The first news that I heard after I got
+to the Legislature, was, that my mills were--not blown up sky high, as
+you would guess, by my powder establishment,--but swept away all to
+smash by a large fresh, that came soon after I left home. I had, of
+course, to stop my distillery, as my grinding was broken up; and,
+indeed, I may say, that the misfortune just made a complete mash of me.
+I had some likely negroes, and a good stock of almost every thing about
+me, and, best of all, I had an honest wife. She didn't advise me, as is
+too fashionable, to smuggle up this, and that, and t'other, to go on at
+home; but she told me, says she, "Just pay up, as long as you have a
+bit's worth in the world; and then every body will be satisfied, and we
+will scuffle for more." This was just such talk as I wanted to hear, for
+a man's wife can hold him devlish uneasy, if she begins to scold, and
+fret, and perplex him, at a time when he has a full load for a rail-road
+car on his mind already.
+
+And so, you see, I determined not to break full handed, but thought it
+better to keep a good conscience with an empty purse, than to get a bad
+opinion of myself, with a full one. I therefore gave up all I had, and
+took a bran-fire new start.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XI.
+
+
+Having returned from the Legislature, I determined to make another move,
+and so I took my eldest son with me, and a young man by the name of
+Abram Henry, and cut out for the Obion. I selected a spot when I got
+there, where I determined to settle; and the nearest house to it was
+seven miles, the next nearest was fifteen, and so on to twenty. It was a
+complete wilderness, and full of Indians who were hunting. Game was
+plenty of almost every kind, which suited me exactly, as I was always
+fond of hunting. The house which was nearest me, and which, as I have
+already stated, was seven miles off, and on the different side of the
+Obion river, belonged to a man by the name of Owens; and I started to go
+there. I had taken one horse along, to pack our provision, and when I
+got to the water I hobbled him out to graze, until I got back; as there
+was no boat to cross the river in, and it was so high that it had
+overflowed all the bottoms and low country near it.
+
+We now took water like so many beavers, notwithstanding it was mighty
+cold, and waded on. The water would sometimes be up to our necks, and at
+others not so deep; but I went, of course, before, and carried a pole,
+with which I would feel along before me, to see how deep it was, and to
+guard against falling into a slough, as there was many in our way. When
+I would come to one, I would take out my tomahawk and cut a small tree
+across it, and then go ahead again. Frequently my little son would have
+to swim, even where myself and the young man could wade; but we worked
+on till at last we got to the channel of the river, which made it about
+half a mile we had waded from where we took water. I saw a large tree
+that had fallen into the river from the other side, but it didn't reach
+across. One stood on the same bank where we were, that I thought I could
+fall, so as to reach the other; and so at it we went with my tomahawk,
+cutting away till we got it down; and, as good luck would have it, it
+fell right, and made us a way that we could pass.
+
+When we got over this, it was still a sea of water as far as our eyes
+could reach. We took into it again, and went ahead, for about a mile,
+hardly ever seeing a single spot of land, and sometimes very deep. At
+last we come in sight of land, which was a very pleasing thing; and when
+we got out, we went but a little way, before we came in sight of the
+house, which was more pleasing than ever; for we were wet all over, and
+mighty cold. I felt mighty sorry when I would look at my little boy, and
+see him shaking like he had the worst sort of an ague, for there was no
+time for fever then. As we got near to the house, we saw Mr. Owens and
+several men that were with him, just starting away. They saw us, and
+stop'd, but looked much astonished until we got up to them, and I made
+myself known. The men who were with him were the owners of a boat which
+was the first that ever went that far up the Obion river; and some hands
+he had hired to carry it about a hundred miles still further up, by
+water, tho' it was only about thirty by land, as the river is very
+crooked.
+
+They all turned back to the house with me, where I found Mrs. Owens, a
+fine, friendly old woman; and her kindness to my little boy did me ten
+times as much good as any thing she could have done for me, if she had
+tried her best. The old gentleman set out his bottle to us, and I
+concluded that if a horn wasn't good then, there was no use for its
+invention. So I swig'd off about a half pint, and the young man was by
+no means bashful in such a case; he took a strong pull at it too. I then
+gave my boy some, and in a little time we felt pretty well. We dried
+ourselves by the fire, and were asked to go on board of the boat that
+evening. I agreed to do so, but left my son with the old lady, and
+myself and my young man went to the boat with Mr. Owens and the others.
+The boat was loaded with whiskey, flour, sugar, coffee, salt, castings,
+and other articles suitable for the country; and they were to receive
+five hundred dollars to land the load at M'Lemore's Bluff, beside the
+profit they could make on their load. This was merely to show that boats
+could get up to that point. We staid all night with them, and had a high
+night of it, as I took steam enough to drive out all the cold that was
+in me, and about three times as much more. In the morning we concluded
+to go on with the boat to where a great _harricane_ had crossed the
+river, and blowed all the timber down into it. When we got there, we
+found the river was falling fast, and concluded we couldn't get through
+the timber without more rise; so we drop'd down opposite Mr. Owens'
+again, where they determined to wait for more water.
+
+The next day it rained rip-roriously, and the river rose pretty
+considerable, but not enough yet. And so I got the boatsmen all to go
+out with me to where I was going to settle, and we slap'd up a cabin in
+little or no time. I got from the boat four barrels of meal, and one of
+salt, and about ten gallons of whiskey.
+
+To pay for these, I agreed to go with the boat up the river to their
+landing place. I got also a large middling of bacon, and killed a fine
+deer, and left them for my young man and my little boy, who were to stay
+at my cabin till I got back; which I expected would be in six or seven
+days. We cut out, and moved up to the harricane, where we stop'd for the
+night. In the morning I started about daylight, intending to kill a
+deer, as I had no thought they would get the boat through the timber
+that day. I had gone but a little way before I killed a fine buck, and
+started to go back to the boat; but on the way I came on the tracks of a
+large gang of elks, and so I took after them. I had followed them only a
+little distance when I saw them, and directly after I saw two large
+bucks. I shot one down, and the other wouldn't leave him; so I loaded
+my gun, and shot him down too. I hung them up, and went ahead again
+after my elks. I pursued on till after the middle of the day before I
+saw them again; but they took the hint before I got in shooting
+distance, and run off. I still pushed on till late in the evening, when
+I found I was about four miles from where I had left the boat, and as
+hungry as a wolf, for I hadn't eaten a bite that day.
+
+I started down the edge of the river low grounds, giving out the pursuit
+of my elks, and hadn't gone hardly any distance at all, before I saw two
+more bucks, very large fellows too. I took a blizzard at one of them,
+and up he tumbled. The other ran off a few jumps and stop'd; and stood
+there till I loaded again, and fired at him. I knock'd his trotters from
+under him, and then I hung them both up. I pushed on again; and about
+sunset I saw three other bucks. I down'd with one of them, and the other
+two ran off. I hung this one up also, having now killed six that day. I
+then pushed on till I got to the harricane, and at the lower edge of it,
+about where I expected the boat was. Here I hollered as hard as I could
+roar, but could get no answer. I fired off my gun, and the men on the
+boat fired one too; but quite contrary to my expectation, they had got
+through the timber, and were about two miles above me. It was now dark,
+and I had to crawl through the fallen timber the best way I could; and
+if the reader don't know it was bad enough, I am sure I do. For the
+vines and briers had grown all through it, and so thick, that a good fat
+coon couldn't much more than get along. I got through at last, and went
+on near to where I had killed my last deer, and once more fired off my
+gun, which was again answered from the boat, which was still a little
+above me. I moved on as fast as I could, but soon came to water, and not
+knowing how deep it was, I halted and hollered till they came to me with
+a skiff. I now got to the boat, without further difficulty; but the
+briers had worked on me at such a rate, that I felt like I wanted sewing
+up, all over. I took a pretty stiff horn, which soon made me feel much
+better; but I was so tired that I could hardly work my jaws to eat.
+
+In the morning, myself and a young man started and brought in the first
+buck I had killed; and after breakfast we went and brought in the last
+one. The boat then started, but we again went and got the two I had
+killed just as I turned down the river in the evening; and we then
+pushed on and o'ertook the boat, leaving the other two hanging in the
+woods, as we had now as much as we wanted.
+
+We got up the river very well, but quite slowly; and we landed, on the
+eleventh day, at the place the load was to be delivered at. They here
+gave me their skiff, and myself and a young man by the name of Flavius
+Harris, who had determined to go and live with me, cut out down the
+river for my cabin, which we reached safely enough.
+
+We turned in and cleared a field, and planted our corn; but it was so
+late in the spring, we had no time to make rails, and therefore we put
+no fence around our field. There was no stock, however, nor any thing
+else to disturb our corn, except the wild _varments_, and the old
+serpent himself, with a fence to help him, couldn't keep them out. I
+made corn enough to do me, and during that spring I killed ten bears,
+and a great abundance of deer. But in all this time, we saw the face of
+no white person in that country, except Mr. Owens' family, and a very
+few passengers, who went out there, looking at the country. Indians,
+though, were still plenty enough. Having laid by my crap, I went home,
+which was a distance of about a hundred and fifty miles; and when I got
+there, I was met by an order to attend a call-session of our
+Legislature. I attended it, and served out my time, and then returned,
+and took my family and what little plunder I had, and moved to where I
+had built my cabin, and made my crap.
+
+I gathered my corn, and then set out for my Fall's hunt. This was in the
+last of October, 1822. I found bear very plenty, and, indeed, all sorts
+of game and wild varments, except buffalo. There was none of them. I
+hunted on till Christmass, having supplied my family very well all along
+with wild meat, at which time my powder gave out; and I had none either
+to fire Christmass guns, which is very common in that country, or to
+hunt with. I had a brother-in-law who had now moved out and settled
+about six miles west of me, on the opposite side of Rutherford's fork of
+the Obion river, and he had brought me a keg of powder, but I had never
+gotten it home. There had just been another of Noah's freshes, and the
+low grounds were flooded all over with water. I know'd the stream was at
+least a mile wide which I would have to cross, as the water was from
+hill to hill, and yet I determined to go on over in some way or other,
+so as to get my powder. I told this to my wife, and she immediately
+opposed it with all her might. I still insisted, telling her we had no
+powder for Christmass, and, worse than all, we were out of meat. She
+said, we had as well starve as for me to freeze to death or to get
+drowned, and one or the other was certain if I attempted to go.
+
+But I didn't believe the half of this; and so I took my woolen wrappers,
+and a pair of mockasins, and put them on, and tied up some dry clothes
+and a pair of shoes and stockings, and started. But I didn't before know
+how much any body could suffer and not die. This, and some of my other
+experiments in water, learned me something about it, and I therefore
+relate them.
+
+The snow was about four inches deep when I started; and when I got to
+the water, which was only about a quarter of a mile off, it look'd like
+an ocean. I put in, and waded on till I come to the channel, where I
+crossed that on a high log. I then took water again, having my gun and
+all my hunting tools along, and waded till I came to a deep slough, that
+was wider than the river itself. I had crossed it often on a log; but,
+behold, when I got there, no log was to be seen. I knowed of an island
+in the slough, and a sapling stood on it close to the side of that log,
+which was now entirely under water. I knowed further, that the water was
+about eight or ten feet deep under the log, and I judged it to be about
+three feet deep over it. After studying a little what I should do, I
+determined to cut a forked sapling, which stood near me, so as to lodge
+it against the one that stood on the island, in which I succeeded very
+well. I then cut me a pole, and crawled along on my sapling till I got
+to the one it was lodged against, which was about six feet above the
+water. I then felt about with my pole till I found the log, which was
+just about as deep under the water as I had judged. I then crawled back
+and got my gun, which I had left at the stump of the sapling I had cut,
+and again made my way to the place of lodgement, and then climb'd down
+the other sapling so as to get on the log. I then felt my way along with
+my feet, in the water, about waist deep, but it was a mighty ticklish
+business. However, I got over, and by this time I had very little
+feeling in my feet and legs, as I had been all the time in the water,
+except what time I was crossing the high log over the river, and
+climbing my lodged sapling.
+
+I went but a short distance before I came to another slough, over which
+there was a log, but it was floating on the water. I thought I could
+walk it, and so I mounted on it; but when I had got about the middle of
+the deep water, somehow or somehow else, it turned over, and in I went
+up to my head I waded out of this deep water, and went ahead till I came
+to the high-land, where I stop'd to pull off my wet clothes, and put on
+the others, which I had held up with my gun, above the water, when I
+fell in. I got them on, but my flesh had no feeling in it, I was so
+cold. I tied up the wet ones, and hung them up in a bush. I now thought
+I would run, so as to warm myself a little, but I couldn't raise a trot
+for some time; indeed, I couldn't step more than half the length of my
+foot. After a while I got better, and went on five miles to the house of
+my brother-in-law, having not even smelt fire from the time I started. I
+got there late in the evening, and he was much astonished at seeing me
+at such a time. I staid all night, and the next morning was most
+piercing cold, and so they persuaded me not to go home that day. I
+agreed, and turned out and killed him two deer; but the weather still
+got worse and colder, instead of better. I staid that night, and in the
+morning they still insisted I couldn't get home. I knowed the water
+would be frozen over, but not hard enough to bear me, and so I agreed to
+stay that day. I went out hunting again, and pursued a big _he-bear_ all
+day, but didn't kill him. The next morning was bitter cold, but I knowed
+my family was without meat, and I determined to get home to them, or
+die a-trying.
+
+I took my keg of powder, and all my hunting tools, and cut out. When I
+got to the water, it was a sheet of ice as far as I could see. I put on
+to it, but hadn't got far before it broke through with me; and so I took
+out my tomahawk, and broke my way along before me for a considerable
+distance. At last I got to where the ice would bear me for a short
+distance, and I mounted on it, and went ahead; but it soon broke in
+again, and I had to wade on till I came to my floating log. I found it
+so tight this time, that I know'd it couldn't give me another fall, as
+it was frozen in with the ice. I crossed over it without much
+difficulty, and worked along till I got to my lodged sapling, and my log
+under the water. The swiftness of the current prevented the water from
+freezing over it, and so I had to wade, just as I did when I crossed it
+before. When I got to my sapling, I left my gun and climbed out with my
+powder keg first, and then went back and got my gun. By this time I was
+nearly frozen to death, but I saw all along before me, where the ice had
+been fresh broke, and I thought it must be a bear straggling about in
+the water. I, therefore, fresh primed my gun, and, cold as I was, I was
+determined to make war on him, if we met. But I followed the trail till
+it led me home, and I then found it had been made by my young man that
+lived with me, who had been sent by my distressed wife to see, if he
+could, what had become of me, for they all believed that I was dead.
+When I got home I was'nt quite dead, but mighty nigh it; but I had my
+powder, and that was what I went for.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XII.
+
+
+That night there fell a heavy rain, and it turned to a sleet. In the
+morning all hands turned out hunting. My young man, and a brother-in-law
+who had lately settled close by me, went down the river to hunt for
+turkeys; but I was for larger game. I told them, I had dreamed the night
+before of having a hard fight with a big black nigger, and I knowed it
+was a sign that I was to have a battle with a bear; for in a bear
+country, I never know'd such a dream to fail. So I started to go up
+above the harricane, determined to have a bear. I had two pretty good
+dogs, and an old hound, all of which I took along. I had gone about six
+miles up the river, and it was then about four miles across to the main
+Obion; so I determined to strike across to that, as I had found nothing
+yet to kill. I got on to the river, and turned down it; but the sleet
+was still getting worse and worse. The bushes were all bent down, and
+locked together with ice, so that it was almost impossible to get
+along. In a little time my dogs started a large gang of old turkey
+goblers, and I killed two of them, of the biggest sort. I shouldered
+them up, and moved on, until I got through the harricane, when I was so
+tired that I laid my goblers down to rest, as they were confounded
+heavy, and I was mighty tired. While I was resting, my old hound went to
+a log, and smelt it awhile, and then raised his eyes toward the sky, and
+cried out. Away he went, and my other dogs with him, and I shouldered up
+my turkeys again, and followed on as hard as I could drive. They were
+soon out of sight, and in a very little time I heard them begin to bark.
+When I got to them, they were barking up a tree, but there was no game
+there. I concluded it had been a turkey, and that it had flew away.
+
+When they saw me coming, away they went again; and, after a little time,
+began to bark as before. When I got near them, I found they were barking
+up the wrong tree again, as there was no game there. They served me in
+this way three or four times, until I was so infernal mad, that I
+determined, if I could get near enough, to shoot the old hound at least.
+With this intention I pushed on the harder, till I came to the edge of
+an open parara, and looking on before my dogs, I saw in and about the
+biggest bear that ever was seen in America. He looked, at the distance
+he was from me, like a large black bull. My dogs were afraid to attack
+him, and that was the reason they had stop'd so often, that I might
+overtake them. They were now almost up with him, and I took my goblers
+from my back and hung them up in a sapling, and broke like a quarter
+horse after my bear, for the sight of him had put new springs in me. I
+soon got near to them, but they were just getting into a roaring
+thicket, and so I couldn't run through it, but had to pick my way along,
+and had close work even at that.
+
+In a little time I saw the bear climbing up a large black oak-tree, and
+I crawled on till I got within about eighty yards of him. He was setting
+with his breast to me; and so I put fresh priming in my gun, and fired
+at him. At this he raised one of his paws and snorted loudly. I loaded
+again as quick as I could, and fired as near the same place in his
+breast as possible. At the crack of my gun here he came tumbling down;
+and the moment he touched the ground, I heard one of my best dogs cry
+out. I took my tomahawk in one hand, and my big butcher-knife in the
+other, and run up within four or five paces of him, at which he let my
+dog go, and fixed his eyes on me. I got back in all sorts of a hurry,
+for I know'd if he got hold of me, he would hug me altogether too close
+for comfort. I went to my gun and hastily loaded her again, and shot him
+the third time, which killed him good.
+
+I now began to think about getting him home, but I didn't know how far
+it was. So I left him and started; and in order to find him again, I
+would blaze a sapling every little distance, which would show me the way
+back. I continued this till I got within about a mile of home, for there
+I know'd very well where I was, and that I could easily find the way
+back to my blazes. When I got home, I took my brother-in-law, and my
+young man, and four horses, and went back. We got there just before
+dark, and struck up a fire, and commenced butchering my bear. It was
+some time in the night before we finished it; and I can assert, on my
+honour, that I believe he would have weighed six hundred pounds. It was
+the second largest I ever saw. I killed one, a few years after, that
+weighed six hundred and seventeen pounds. I now felt fully compensated
+for my sufferings in going after my powder; and well satisfied that a
+dog might sometimes be doing a good business, even when he seemed to be
+_barking up the wrong tree_. We got our meat home, and I had the
+pleasure to know that we now had plenty, and that of the best; and I
+continued through the winter to supply my family abundantly with
+bear-meat and venison from the woods.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIII.
+
+
+I had on hand a great many skins, and so, in the month of February, I
+packed a horse with them, and taking my eldest son along with me, cut
+out for a little town called Jackson, situated about forty miles off. We
+got there well enough, and I sold my skins, and bought me some coffee,
+and sugar, powder, lead, and salt. I packed them all up in readiness for
+a start, which I intended to make early the next morning. Morning came,
+but I concluded, before I started, I would go and take a horn with some
+of my old fellow-soldiers that I had met with at Jackson.
+
+I did so; and while we were engaged in this, I met with three candidates
+for the Legislature; a Doctor Butler, who was, by marriage, a nephew to
+General Jackson, a Major Lynn, and a Mr. McEver, all first-rate men. We
+all took a horn together, and some person present said to me, "Crockett,
+you must offer for the Legislature." I told him I lived at least forty
+miles from any white settlement, and had no thought of becoming a
+candidate at that time. So we all parted, and I and my little boy went
+on home.
+
+It was about a week or two after this, that a man came to my house, and
+told me I was a candidate. I told him not so. But he took out a
+newspaper from his pocket, and show'd me where I was announced. I said
+to my wife that this was all a burlesque on me, but I was determined to
+make it cost the man who had put it there at least the value of the
+printing, and of the fun he wanted at my expense. So I hired a young man
+to work in my place on my farm, and turned out myself electioneering. I
+hadn't been out long, before I found the people began to talk very much
+about the bear hunter, the man from the cane; and the three gentlemen,
+who I have already named, soon found it necessary to enter into an
+agreement to have a sort of caucus at their March court, to determine
+which of them was the strongest, and the other two was to withdraw and
+support him. As the court came on, each one of them spread himself, to
+secure the nomination; but it fell on Dr. Butler, and the rest backed
+out. The doctor was a clever fellow, and I have often said he was the
+most talented man I ever run against for any office. His being related
+to Gen'l. Jackson also helped him on very much; but I was in for it, and
+I was determined to push ahead and go through, or stick. Their meeting
+was held in Madison county, which was the strongest in the
+representative district, which was composed of eleven counties, and they
+seemed bent on having the member from there.
+
+At this time Col. Alexander was a candidate for Congress, and attending
+one of his public meetings one day, I walked to where he was treating
+the people, and he gave me an introduction to several of his
+acquaintances, and informed them that I was out electioneering. In a
+little time my competitor, Doctor Butler, came along; he passed by
+without noticing me, and I suppose, indeed, he did not recognise me. But
+I hailed him, as I was for all sorts of fun; and when he turned to me, I
+said to him, "Well, doctor, I suppose they have weighed you out to me;
+but I should like to know why they fixed your election for _March_
+instead of _August_? This is," said I, "a branfire new way of doing
+business, if a caucus is to make a representative for the people!" He
+now discovered who I was, and cried out, "D--n it, Crockett, is that
+you?"--"Be sure it is," said I, "but I don't want it understood that I
+have come electioneering. I have just crept out of the cane, to see
+what discoveries I could make among the white folks." I told him that
+when I set out electioneering, I would go prepared to put every man on
+as good footing when I left him as I found him on. I would therefore
+have me a large buckskin hunting-shirt made, with a couple of pockets
+holding about a peck each; and that in one I would carry a great big
+twist of tobacco, and in the other my bottle of liquor; for I knowed
+when I met a man and offered him a dram, he would throw out his quid of
+tobacco to take one, and after he had taken his horn, I would out with
+my twist and give him another chaw. And in this way he would not be
+worse off than when I found him; and I would be sure to leave him in a
+first-rate good humour. He said I could beat him electioneering all
+hollow. I told him I would give him better evidence of that before
+August, notwithstanding he had many advantages over me, and particularly
+in the way of money; but I told him that I would go on the products of
+the country; that I had industrious children, and the best of coon dogs,
+and they would hunt every night till midnight to support my election;
+and when the coon fur wa'n't good, I would myself go a wolfing, and
+shoot down a wolf, and skin his head, and his scalp would be good to me
+for three dollars, in our state treasury money; and in this way I would
+get along on the big string. He stood like he was both amused and
+astonished, and the whole crowd was in a roar of laughter. From this
+place I returned home, leaving the people in a first-rate way; and I was
+sure I would do a good business among them. At any rate, I was
+determined to stand up to my lick-log, salt or no salt.
+
+In a short time there came out two other candidates, a Mr. Shaw and a
+Mr. Brown. We all ran the race through; and when the election was over,
+it turned out that I beat them all by a majority of two hundred and
+forty-seven votes, and was again returned as a member of the Legislature
+from a new region of the country, without losing a session. This
+reminded me of the old saying--"A fool for luck, and a poor man for
+children."
+
+I now served two years in that body from my new district, which was the
+years 1823 and '24. At the session of 1823, I had a small trial of my
+independence, and whether I would forsake principle for party, or for
+the purpose of following after big men.
+
+The term of Col. John Williams had expired, who was a senator in
+Congress from the state of Tennessee. He was a candidate for another
+election, and was opposed by Pleasant M. Miller, Esq., who, it was
+believed, would not be able to beat the colonel. Some two or three
+others were spoken of, but it was at last concluded that the only man
+who could beat him was the present "government," General Jackson. So, a
+few days before the election was to come on, he was sent for to come and
+run for the senate. He was then in nomination for the presidency; but
+sure enough he came, and did run as the opponent of Colonel Williams,
+and beat him too, but not by my vote. The vote was, for Jackson,
+_thirty-five_; for Williams, _twenty-five_. I thought the colonel had
+honestly discharged his duty, and even the mighty name of Jackson
+couldn't make me vote against him.
+
+But voting against the old chief was found a mighty up-hill business to
+all of them except myself. I never would, nor never did, acknowledge I
+had voted wrong; and I am more certain now that I was right than ever.
+
+I told the people it was the best vote I ever gave; that I had supported
+the public interest, and cleared my conscience in giving it, instead of
+gratifying the private ambition of a man.
+
+I let the people know as early as then, that I wouldn't take a collar
+around my neck with the letters engraved on it,
+
+              MY DOG.
+
+                    ANDREW JACKSON.
+
+
+During these two sessions of the Legislature, nothing else turned up
+which I think it worth while to mention; and, indeed, I am fearful that
+I am too particular about many small matters; but if so, my apology is,
+that I want the world to understand my true history, and how I worked
+along to rise from a cane-brake to my present station in life.
+
+Col. Alexander was the representative in Congress of the district I
+lived in, and his vote on the tariff law of 1824 gave a mighty heap of
+dissatisfaction to his people. They therefore began to talk pretty
+strong of running me for Congress against him. At last I was called on
+by a good many to be a candidate. I told the people that I couldn't
+stand that; it was a step above my knowledge, and I know'd nothing about
+Congress matters.
+
+However, I was obliged to agree to run, and myself and two other
+gentlemen came out. But Providence was a little against two of us this
+hunt, for it was the year that cotton brought twenty-five dollars a
+hundred; and so Colonel Alexander would get up and tell the people, it
+was all the good effect of this tariff law; that it had raised the price
+of their cotton, and that it would raise the price of every thing else
+they made to sell. I might as well have sung _salms_ over a dead horse,
+as to try to make the people believe otherwise; for they knowed their
+cotton had raised, sure enough, and if the colonel hadn't done it, they
+didn't know what had. So he rather made a mash of me this time, as he
+beat me exactly _two_ votes, as they counted the polls, though I have
+always believed that many other things had been as fairly done as that
+same count.
+
+He went on, and served out his term, and at the end of it cotton was
+down to _six_ or _eight_ dollars a hundred again; and I concluded I
+would try him once more, and see how it would go with cotton at the
+common price, and so I became a candidate.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIV.
+
+
+But the reader, I expect, would have no objection to know a little about
+my employment during the two years while my competitor was in Congress.
+In this space I had some pretty tuff times, and will relate some few
+things that happened to me. So here goes, as the boy said when he run by
+himself.
+
+In the fall of 1825, I concluded I would build two large boats, and load
+them with pipe staves for market. So I went down to the lake, which was
+about twenty-five miles from where I lived, and hired some hands to
+assist me, and went to work; some at boat building, and others to
+getting staves. I worked on with my hands till the bears got fat, and
+then I turned out to hunting, to lay in a supply of meat. I soon killed
+and salted down as many as were necessary for my family; but about this
+time one of my old neighbours, who had settled down on the lake about
+twenty-five miles from me, came to my house and told me he wanted me to
+go down and kill some bears about in his parts. He said they were
+extremely fat, and very plenty. I know'd that when they were fat, they
+were easily taken, for a fat bear can't run fast or long. But I asked a
+bear no favours, no way, further than civility, for I now had _eight_
+large dogs, and as fierce as painters; so that a bear stood no chance at
+all to get away from them. So I went home with him, and then went on
+down towards the Mississippi, and commenced hunting.
+
+We were out two weeks, and in that time killed fifteen bears. Having now
+supplied my friend with plenty of meat, I engaged occasionally again
+with my hands in our boat building, and getting staves. But I at length
+couldn't stand it any longer without another hunt. So I concluded to
+take my little son, and cross over the lake, and take a hunt there. We
+got over, and that evening turned out and killed three bears, in little
+or no time. The next morning we drove up four forks, and made a sort of
+scaffold, on which we salted up our meat, so as to have it out of the
+reach of the wolves, for as soon as we would leave our camp, they would
+take possession. We had just eat our breakfast, when a company of
+hunters came to our camp, who had fourteen dogs, but all so poor, that
+when they would bark they would almost have to lean up against a tree
+and take a rest. I told them their dogs couldn't run in smell of a bear,
+and they had better stay at my camp, and feed them on the bones I had
+cut out of my meat. I left them there, and cut out; but I hadn't gone
+far, when my dogs took a first-rate start after a very large fat old
+_he-bear_, which run right plump towards my camp. I pursued on, but my
+other hunters had heard my dogs coming, and met them, and killed the
+bear before I got up with him. I gave him to them, and cut out again for
+a creek called Big Clover, which wa'n't very far off. Just as I got
+there, and was entering a cane brake, my dogs all broke and went ahead,
+and, in a little time, they raised a fuss in the cane, and seemed to be
+going every way. I listened a while, and found my dogs was in two
+companies, and that both was in a snorting fight. I sent my little son
+to one, and I broke for t'other. I got to mine first, and found my dogs
+had a two-year-old bear down, a-wooling away on him; so I just took out
+my big butcher, and went up and slap'd it into him, and killed him
+without shooting. There was five of the dogs in my company. In a short
+time, I heard my little son fire at his bear; when I went to him he had
+killed it too. He had two dogs in his team. Just at this moment we
+heard my other dog barking a short distance off, and all the rest
+immediately broke to him. We pushed on too, and when we got there, we
+found he had still a larger bear than either of them we had killed,
+treed by himself. We killed that one also, which made three we had
+killed in less than half an hour. We turned in and butchered them, and
+then started to hunt for water, and a good place to camp. But we had no
+sooner started, than our dogs took a start after another one, and away
+they went like a thunder-gust, and was out of hearing in a minute. We
+followed the way they had gone for some time, but at length we gave up
+the hope of finding them, and turned back. As we were going back, I came
+to where a poor fellow was grubbing, and he looked like the very picture
+of hard times. I asked him what he was doing away there in the woods by
+himself? He said he was grubbing for a man who intended to settle there;
+and the reason why he did it was, that he had no meat for his family,
+and he was working for a little.
+
+I was mighty sorry for the poor fellow, for it was not only a hard, but
+a very slow way to get meat for a hungry family; so I told him if he
+would go with me, I would give him more meat than he could get by
+grubbing in a month. I intended to supply him with meat, and also to get
+him to assist my little boy in packing in and salting up my bears. He
+had never seen a bear killed in his life. I told him I had six killed
+then, and my dogs were hard after another. He went off to his little
+cabin, which was a short distance in the brush, and his wife was very
+anxious he should go with me. So we started and went to where I had left
+my three bears, and made a camp. We then gathered my meat and salted,
+and scaffled it, as I had done the other. Night now came on, but no word
+from my dogs yet. I afterwards found they had treed the bear about five
+miles off, near to a man's house, and had barked at it the whole
+enduring night. Poor fellows! many a time they looked for me, and
+wondered why I didn't come, for they knowed there was no mistake in me,
+and I know'd they were as good as ever fluttered. In the morning, as
+soon as it was light enough to see, the man took his gun and went to
+them, and shot the bear, and killed it. My dogs, however, wouldn't have
+any thing to say to this stranger; so they left him, and came early in
+the morning back to me.
+
+We got our breakfast, and cut out again; and we killed four large and
+very fat bears that day. We hunted out the week, and in that time we
+killed seventeen, all of them first-rate. When we closed our hunt, I
+gave the man over a thousand weight of fine fat bear-meat, which pleased
+him mightily, and made him feel as rich as a Jew. I saw him the next
+fall, and he told me he had plenty of meat to do him the whole year from
+his week's hunt. My son and me now went home. This was the week between
+Christmass and New-year that we made this hunt.
+
+When I got home, one of my neighbours was out of meat, and wanted me to
+go back, and let him go with me, to take another hunt. I couldn't
+refuse; but I told him I was afraid the bear had taken to house by that
+time, for after they get very fat in the fall and early part of the
+winter, they go into their holes, in large hollow trees, or into hollow
+logs, or their cane-houses, or the harricanes; and lie there till
+spring, like frozen snakes. And one thing about this will seem mighty
+strange to many people. From about the first of January to about the
+last of April, these varments lie in their holes altogether. In all that
+time they have no food to eat; and yet when they come out, they are not
+an ounce lighter than when they went to house. I don't know the cause of
+this, and still I know it is a fact; and I leave it for others who have
+more learning than myself to account for it. They have not a particle of
+food with them, but they just lie and suck the bottom of their paw all
+the time. I have killed many of them in their trees, which enables me to
+speak positively on this subject. However, my neighbour, whose name was
+McDaniel, and my little son and me, went on down to the lake to my
+second camp, where I had killed my seventeen bears the week before, and
+turned out to hunting. But we hunted hard all day without getting a
+single start. We had carried but little provisions with us, and the next
+morning was entirely out of meat. I sent my son about three miles off,
+to the house of an old friend, to get some. The old gentleman was much
+pleased to hear I was hunting in those parts, for the year before the
+bears had killed a great many of his hogs. He was that day killing his
+bacon hogs, and so he gave my son some meat, and sent word to me that I
+must come in to his house that evening, that he would have plenty of
+feed for my dogs, and some accommodations for ourselves; but before my
+son got back, we had gone out hunting, and in a large cane brake my dogs
+found a big bear in a cane-house, which he had fixed for his
+winter-quarters, as they sometimes do.
+
+When my lead dog found him, and raised the yell, all the rest broke to
+him, but none of them entered his house until we got up. I encouraged my
+dogs, and they knowed me so well, that I could have made them seize the
+old serpent himself, with all his horns and heads, and cloven foot and
+ugliness into the bargain, if he would only have come to light, so that
+they could have seen him. They bulged in, and in an instant the bear
+followed them out, and I told my friend to shoot him, as he was mighty
+wrathy to kill a bear. He did so, and killed him prime. We carried him
+to our camp, by which time my son had returned; and after we got our
+dinners we packed up, and cut for the house of my old friend, whose name
+was Davidson.
+
+We got there, and staid with him that night; and the next morning,
+having salted up our meat, we left it with him, and started to take a
+hunt between the Obion lake and the Red-foot lake; as there had been a
+dreadful harricane, which passed between them, and I was sure there must
+be a heap of bears in the fallen timber. We had gone about five miles
+without seeing any sign at all; but at length we got on some high cany
+ridges, and, as we rode along, I saw a hole in a large black oak, and on
+examining more closely, I discovered that a bear had clomb the tree. I
+could see his tracks going up, but none coming down, and so I was sure
+he was in there. A person who is acquainted with bear-hunting, can tell
+easy enough when the varment is in the hollow; for as they go up they
+don't slip a bit, but as they come down they make long scratches with
+their nails.
+
+My friend was a little ahead of me, but I called him back, and told him
+there was a bear in that tree, and I must have him out. So we lit from
+our horses, and I found a small tree which I thought I could fall so as
+to lodge against my bear tree, and we fell to work chopping it with our
+tomahawks. I intended, when we lodged the tree against the other, to let
+my little son go up, and look into the hole, for he could climb like a
+squirrel. We had chop'd on a little time and stop'd to rest, when I
+heard my dogs barking mighty severe at some distance from us, and I told
+my friend I knowed they had a bear; for it is the nature of a dog, when
+he finds you are hunting bears, to hunt for nothing else; he becomes
+fond of the meat, and considers other game as "not worth a notice," as
+old Johnson said of the devil.
+
+We concluded to leave our tree a bit, and went to my dogs, and when we
+got there, sure enough they had an eternal great big fat bear up a
+tree, just ready for shooting. My friend again petitioned me for
+liberty to shoot this one also. I had a little rather not, as the bear
+was so big, but I couldn't refuse; and so he blazed away, and down came
+the old fellow like some great log had fell. I now missed one of my
+dogs, the same that I before spoke of as having treed the bear by
+himself sometime before, when I had started the three in the cane break.
+I told my friend that my missing dog had a bear somewhere, just as sure
+as fate; so I left them to butcher the one we had just killed, and I
+went up on a piece of high ground to listen for my dog. I heard him
+barking with all his might some distance off, and I pushed ahead for
+him. My other dogs hearing him broke to him, and when I got there, sure
+enough again he had another bear ready treed; if he hadn't, I wish I may
+be shot. I fired on him, and brought him down; and then went back, and
+help'd finish butchering the one at which I had left my friend. We then
+packed both to our tree where we had left my boy. By this time, the
+little fellow had cut the tree down that we intended to lodge, but it
+fell the wrong way; he had then feather'd in on the big tree, to cut
+that, and had found that it was nothing but a shell on the outside, and
+all doted in the middle, as too many of our big men are in these days,
+having only an outside appearance. My friend and my son cut away on it,
+and I went off about a hundred yards with my dogs to keep them from
+running under the tree when it should fall. On looking back at the hole,
+I saw the bear's head out of it, looking down at them as they were
+cutting. I hollered to them to look up, and they did so; and McDaniel
+catched up his gun, but by this time the bear was out, and coming down
+the tree. He fired at it, and as soon as it touch'd ground the dogs were
+all round it, and they had a roll-and-tumble fight to the foot of the
+hill, where they stop'd him. I ran up, and putting my gun against the
+bear, fired and killed him. We now had three, and so we made our
+scaffold and salted them up.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XV.
+
+
+In the morning I left my son at the camp, and we started on towards the
+harricane; and when we had went about a mile, we started a very large
+bear, but we got along mighty slow on account of the cracks in the earth
+occasioned by the earthquakes. We, however, made out to keep in hearing
+of the dogs for about three miles, and then we come to the harricane.
+Here we had to quit our horses, as old Nick himself couldn't have got
+through it without sneaking it along in the form that he put on, to make
+a fool of our old grandmother Eve. By this time several of my dogs had
+got tired and come back; but we went ahead on foot for some little time
+in the harricane, when we met a bear coming straight to us, and not more
+than twenty or thirty yards off. I started my tired dogs after him, and
+McDaniel pursued them, and I went on to where my other dogs were. I had
+seen the track of the bear they were after, and I knowed he was a
+screamer. I followed on to about the middle of the harricane; but my
+dogs pursued him so close, that they made him climb an old stump about
+twenty feet high. I got in shooting distance of him and fired, but I was
+all over in such a flutter from fatigue and running, that I couldn't
+hold steady; but, however, I broke his shoulder, and he fell. I run up
+and loaded my gun as quick as possible, and shot him again and killed
+him. When I went to take out my knife to butcher him, I found I had lost
+it in coming through the harricane. The vines and briers was so thick
+that I would sometimes have to get down and crawl like a varment to get
+through at all; and a vine had, as I supposed, caught in the handle and
+pulled it out. While I was standing and studying what to do, my friend
+came to me. He had followed my trail through the harricane, and had
+found my knife, which was mighty good news to me; as a hunter hates the
+worst in the world to lose a good dog, or any part of his hunting-tools.
+I now left McDaniel to butcher the bear, and I went after our horses,
+and brought them as near as the nature of case would allow. I then took
+our bags, and went back to where he was; and when we had skin'd the
+bear, we fleeced off the fat and carried it to our horses at several
+loads. We then packed it up on our horses, and had a heavy pack of it
+on each one. We now started and went on till about sunset, when I
+concluded we must be near our camp; so I hollered and my son answered
+me, and we moved on in the direction to the camp. We had gone but a
+little way when I heard my dogs make a warm start again; and I jumped
+down from my horse and gave him up to my friend, and told him I would
+follow them. He went on to the camp, and I went ahead after my dogs with
+all my might for a considerable distance, till at last night came on.
+The woods were very rough and hilly, and all covered over with cane.
+
+I now was compel'd to move on more slowly; and was frequently falling
+over logs, and into the cracks made by the earthquakes, so that I was
+very much afraid I would break my gun. However I went on about three
+miles, when I came to a good big creek, which I waded. It was very cold,
+and the creek was about knee-deep; but I felt no great inconvenience
+from it just then, as I was all over wet with sweat from running, and I
+felt hot enough. After I got over this creek and out of the cane, which
+was very thick on all our creeks, I listened for my dogs. I found they
+had either treed or brought the bear to a stop, as they continued
+barking in the same place. I pushed on as near in the direction to the
+noise as I could, till I found the hill was too steep for me to climb,
+and so I backed and went down the creek some distance till I came to a
+hollow, and then took up that, till I come to a place where I could
+climb up the hill. It was mighty dark, and was difficult to see my way
+or any thing else. When I got up the hill, I found I had passed the
+dogs; and so I turned and went to them. I found, when I got there, they
+had treed the bear in a large forked poplar, and it was setting in the
+fork.
+
+I could see the lump, but not plain enough to shoot with any certainty,
+as there was no moonlight; and so I set in to hunting for some dry brush
+to make me a light; but I could find none, though I could find that the
+ground was torn mightily to pieces by the cracks.
+
+At last I thought I could shoot by guess, and kill him; so I pointed as
+near the lump as I could, and fired away. But the bear didn't come he
+only clomb up higher, and got out on a limb, which helped me to see him
+better. I now loaded up again and fired, but this time he didn't move at
+all. I commenced loading for a third fire, but the first thing I knowed,
+the bear was down among my dogs, and they were fighting all around me.
+I had my big butcher in my belt, and I had a pair of dressed buckskin
+breeches on. So I took out my knife, and stood, determined, if he should
+get hold of me, to defend myself in the best way I could. I stood there
+for some time, and could now and then see a white dog I had, but the
+rest of them, and the bear, which were dark coloured, I couldn't see at
+all, it was so miserable dark. They still fought around me, and
+sometimes within three feet of me; but, at last, the bear got down into
+one of the cracks, that the earthquakes had made in the ground, about
+four feet deep, and I could tell the biting end of him by the hollering
+of my dogs. So I took my gun and pushed the muzzle of it about, till I
+thought I had it against the main part of his body, and fired; but it
+happened to be only the fleshy part of his foreleg. With this, he jumped
+out of the crack, and he and the dogs had another hard fight around me,
+as before. At last, however, they forced him back into the crack again,
+as he was when I had shot.
+
+I had laid down my gun in the dark, and I now began to hunt for it; and,
+while hunting, I got hold of a pole, and I concluded I would punch him
+awhile with that. I did so, and when I would punch him, the dogs would
+jump in on him, when he would bite them badly, and they would jump out
+again. I concluded, as he would take punching so patiently, it might be
+that he would lie still enough for me to get down in the crack, and feel
+slowly along till I could find the right place to give him a dig with my
+butcher. So I got down, and my dogs got in before him and kept his head
+towards them, till I got along easily up to him; and placing my hand on
+his rump, felt for his shoulder, just behind which I intended to stick
+him. I made a lounge with my long knife, and fortunately stuck him right
+through the heart; at which he just sank down, and I crawled out in a
+hurry. In a little time my dogs all come out too, and seemed satisfied,
+which was the way they always had of telling me that they had finished
+him.
+
+I suffered very much that night with cold, as my leather breeches, and
+every thing else I had on, was wet and frozen. But I managed to get my
+bear out of this crack after several hard trials, and so I butchered
+him, and laid down to try to sleep. But my fire was very bad, and I
+couldn't find any thing that would burn well to make it any better; and
+I concluded I should freeze, if I didn't warm myself in some way by
+exercise. So I got up, and hollered a while, and then I would just jump
+up and down with all my might, and throw myself into all sorts of
+motions. But all this wouldn't do; for my blood was now getting cold,
+and the chills coming all over me. I was so tired, too, that I could
+hardly walk; but I thought I would do the best I could to save my life,
+and then, if I died, nobody would be to blame. So I went to a tree about
+two feet through, and not a limb on it for thirty feet, and I would
+climb up it to the limbs, and then lock my arms together around it, and
+slide down to the bottom again. This would make the insides of my legs
+and arms feel mighty warm and good. I continued this till daylight in
+the morning, and how often I clomb up my tree and slid down I don't
+know, but I reckon at least a hundred times.
+
+In the morning I got my bear hung up so as to be safe, and then set out
+to hunt for my camp. I found it after a while, and McDaniel and my son
+were very much rejoiced to see me get back, for they were about to give
+me up for lost. We got our breakfasts, and then secured our meat by
+building a high scaffold, and covering it over. We had no fear of its
+spoiling, for the weather was so cold that it couldn't.
+
+We now started after my other bear, which had caused me so much trouble
+and suffering; and before we got him, we got a start after another, and
+took him also. We went on to the creek I had crossed the night before
+and camped, and then went to where my bear was, that I had killed in the
+crack. When we examined the place, McDaniel said he wouldn't have gone
+into it, as I did, for all the bears in the woods.
+
+We took the meat down to our camp and salted it, and also the last one
+we had killed; intending, in the morning, to make a hunt in the
+harricane again.
+
+We prepared for resting that night, and I can assure the reader I was in
+need of it. We had laid down by our fire, and about ten o'clock there
+came a most terrible earthquake, which shook the earth so, that we were
+rocked about like we had been in a cradle. We were very much alarmed;
+for though we were accustomed to feel earthquakes, we were now right in
+the region which had been torn to pieces by them in 1812, and we thought
+it might take a notion and swallow us up, like the big fish did Jonah.
+
+In the morning we packed up and moved to the harricane, where we made
+another camp, and turned out that evening and killed a very large bear,
+which made _eight_ we had now killed in this hunt.
+
+The next morning we entered the harricane again, and in little or no
+time my dogs were in full cry. We pursued them, and soon came to a thick
+cane-brake, in which they had stop'd their bear. We got up close to him,
+as the cane was so thick that we couldn't see more than a few feet. Here
+I made my friend hold the cane a little open with his gun till I shot
+the bear, which was a mighty large one. I killed him dead in his tracks.
+We got him out and butchered him, and in a little time started another
+and killed him, which now made _ten_ we had killed; and we know'd we
+couldn't pack any more home, as we had only five horses along; therefore
+we returned to the camp and salted up all our meat, to be ready for a
+start homeward next morning.
+
+The morning came, and we packed our horses with the meat, and had as
+much as they could possibly carry, and sure enough cut out for home. It
+was about thirty miles, and we reached home the second day. I had now
+accommodated my neighbour with meat enough to do him, and had killed in
+all, up to that time, fifty-eight bears, during the fall and winter.
+
+As soon as the time come for them to quit their houses and come out
+again in the spring, I took a notion to hunt a little more, and in
+about one month I killed forty-seven more, which made one hundred and
+five bears I had killed in less than one year from that time.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVI.
+
+
+Having now closed my hunting for that winter, I returned to my hands,
+who were engaged about my boats and staves, and made ready for a trip
+down the river. I had two boats and about thirty thousand staves, and so
+I loaded with them, and set out for New Orleans. I got out of the Obion
+river, in which I had loaded my boats, very well; but when I got into
+the Mississippi, I found all my hands were bad scared, and in fact I
+believe I was scared a little the worst of any; for I had never been
+down the river, and I soon discovered that my pilot was as ignorant of
+the business as myself. I hadn't gone far before I determined to lash
+the two boats together; we did so, but it made them so heavy and
+obstinate, that it was next akin to impossible to do any thing at all
+with them, or to guide them right in the river.
+
+That evening we fell in company with some Ohio boats; and about night we
+tried to land, but we could not. The Ohio men hollered to us to go on
+and run all night. We took their advice, though we had a good deal
+rather not; but we couldn't do any other way. In a short distance we got
+into what is called the "_Devil's Elbow_;" and if any place in the wide
+creation has its own proper name, I thought it was this. Here we had
+about the hardest work that I ever was engaged in, in my life, to keep
+out of danger; and even then we were in it all the while. We twice
+attempted to land at Wood-yards, which we could see, but couldn't reach.
+
+The people would run out with lights, and try to instruct us how to get
+to shore; but all in vain. Our boats were so heavy that we couldn't take
+them much any way, except the way they wanted to go, and just the way
+the current would carry them. At last we quit trying to land, and
+concluded just to go ahead as well as we could, for we found we couldn't
+do any better. Some time in the night I was down in the cabin of one of
+the boats, sitting by the fire, thinking on what a hobble we had got
+into; and how much better bear-hunting was on hard land, than floating
+along on the water, when a fellow had to go ahead whether he was exactly
+willing or not.
+
+The hatchway into the cabin came slap down, right through the top of the
+boat; and it was the only way out except a small hole in the side,
+which we had used for putting our arms through to dip up water before we
+lashed the boats together.
+
+We were now floating sideways, and the boat I was in was the hindmost as
+we went. All at once I heard the hands begin to run over the top of the
+boat in great confusion, and pull with all their might; and the first
+thing I know'd after this we went broadside full tilt against the head
+of an island where a large raft of drift timber had lodged. The nature
+of such a place would be, as every body knows, to suck the boats down,
+and turn them right under this raft; and the uppermost boat would, of
+course, be suck'd down and go under first. As soon as we struck, I
+bulged for my hatchway, as the boat was turning under sure enough. But
+when I got to it, the water was pouring thro' in a current as large as
+the hole would let it, and as strong as the weight of the river could
+force it. I found I couldn't get out here, for the boat was now turned
+down in such a way, that it was steeper than a house-top. I now thought
+of the hole in the side, and made my way in a hurry for that. With
+difficulty I got to it, and when I got there, I found it was too small
+for me to get out by my own dower, and I began to think that I was in a
+worse box than ever. But I put my arms through and hollered as loud as I
+could roar, as the boat I was in hadn't yet quite filled with water up
+to my head, and the hands who were next to the raft, seeing my arms out,
+and hearing me holler, seized them, and began to pull. I told them I was
+sinking, and to pull my arms off, or force me through, for now I know'd
+well enough it was neck or nothing, come out or sink.
+
+By a violent effort they jerked me through; but I was in a pretty pickle
+when I got through. I had been sitting without any clothing over my
+shirt: this was torn off, and I was literally skin'd like a rabbit. I
+was, however, well pleased to get out in any way, even without shirt or
+hide; as before I could straighten myself on the boat next to the raft,
+the one they pull'd me out of went entirely under, and I have never seen
+it any more to this day. We all escaped on to the raft, where we were
+compelled to sit all night, about a mile from land on either side. Four
+of my company were bareheaded, and three bare-footed; and of that number
+I was one. I reckon I looked like a pretty cracklin ever to get to
+Congress!!!
+
+We had now lost all our loading; and every particle of our clothing,
+except what little we had on; but over all this, while I was setting
+there, in the night, floating about on the drift, I felt happier and
+better off than I ever had in my life before, for I had just made such a
+marvellous escape, that I had forgot almost every thing else in that;
+and so I felt prime.
+
+In the morning about sunrise, we saw a boat coming down, and we hailed
+her. They sent a large skiff, and took us all on board, and carried us
+down as far as Memphis. Here I met with a friend, that I never can
+forget as long as I am able to go ahead at any thing; it was a Major
+Winchester, a merchant of that place: he let us all have hats, and
+shoes, and some little money to go upon, and so we all parted.
+
+A young man and myself concluded to go on down to Natchez, to see if we
+could hear any thing of our boats; for we supposed they would float out
+from the raft, and keep on down the river. We got on a boat at Memphis,
+that was going down, and so cut out. Our largest boat, we were informed,
+had been seen about fifty miles below where we stove, and an attempt had
+been made to land her, but without success, as she was as hard-headed as
+ever.
+
+This was the last of my boats, and of my boating; for it went so badly
+with me, along at the first, that I hadn't much mind to try it any more.
+I now returned home again, and as the next August was the Congressional
+election, I began to turn my attention a little to that matter, as it
+was beginning to be talked of a good deal among the people.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVII.
+
+
+I have, heretofore, informed the reader that I had determined to run
+this race to see what effect _the price of cotton_ could have again on
+it. I now had Col. Alexander to run against once more, and also General
+William Arnold.
+
+I had difficulties enough to fight against this time, as every one will
+suppose; for I had no money, and a very bad prospect, so far as I
+know'd, of getting any to help me along. I had, however, a good friend,
+who sent for me to come and see him. I went, and he was good enough to
+offer me some money to help me out. I borrowed as much as I thought I
+needed at the start, and went ahead. My friend also had a good deal of
+business about over the district at the different courts; and if he now
+and then slip'd in a good word for me, it is nobody's business. We
+frequently met at different places, and, as he thought I needed, he
+would occasionally hand me a little more cash; so I was able to buy a
+little of "the _creature_," to put my friends in a good humour, as well
+as the other gentlemen, for they all treat in that country; not to get
+elected, of course--for that would be against the law; but just, as I
+before said, to make themselves and their friends feel their keeping a
+little.
+
+Nobody ever did know how I got money to get along on, till after the
+election was over, and I had beat my competitors twenty-seven hundred
+and forty-eight votes. Even the price of cotton couldn't save my friend
+Aleck this time. My rich friend, who had been so good to me in the way
+of money, now sent for me, and loaned me a hundred dollars, and told me
+to go ahead; that that amount would bear my expenses to Congress, and I
+must then shift for myself. I came on to Washington, and draw'd two
+hundred and fifty dollars, and purchased with it a check on the bank at
+Nashville, and enclosed it to my friend; and I may say, in truth, I sent
+this money with a mighty good will, for I reckon nobody in this world
+loves a friend better than me, or remembers a kindness longer.
+
+I have now given the close of the election, but I have skip'd entirely
+over the canvass, of which I will say a very few things in this place;
+as I know very well how to tell the truth, but not much about placing
+them in book order, so as to please critics.
+
+Col. Alexander was a very clever fellow, and principal surveyor at that
+time; so much for one of the men I had to run against. My other
+competitor was a major-general in the militia, and an attorney-general
+at the law, and quite a smart, clever man also; and so it will be seen I
+had war work as well as law trick, to stand up under. Taking both
+together, they make a pretty considerable of a load for any one man to
+carry. But for war claims, I consider myself behind no man except "the
+government," and mighty little, if any, behind him; but this the people
+will have to determine hereafter, as I reckon it won't do to quit the
+work of "reform and retrenchment" yet for a spell.
+
+But my two competitors seemed some little afraid of the influence of
+each other, but not to think me in their way at all. They, therefore,
+were generally working against each other, while I was going ahead for
+myself, and mixing among the people in the best way I could. I was as
+cunning as a little red fox, and wouldn't risk my tail in a "committal"
+trap.
+
+I found the sign was good, almost everywhere I went. On one occasion,
+while we were in the eastern counties of the district, it happened that
+we all had to make a speech, and it fell on me to make the first one. I
+did so after my manner, and it turned pretty much on the old saying, "A
+short horse is soon curried," as I spoke not very long. Colonel
+Alexander followed me, and then General Arnold come on.
+
+The general took much pains to reply to Alexander, but didn't so much as
+let on that there was any such candidate as myself at all. He had been
+speaking for a considerable time, when a large flock of guinea-fowls
+came very near to where he was, and set up the most unmerciful
+chattering that ever was heard, for they are a noisy little brute any
+way. They so confused the general, that he made a stop, and requested
+that they might be driven away. I let him finish his speech, and then
+walking up to him, said aloud, "Well, colonel, you are the first man I
+ever saw that understood the language of fowls." I told him that he had
+not had the politeness to name me in his speech, and that when my little
+friends, the guinea-fowls, had come up and began to holler "Crockett,
+Crockett, Crockett," he had been ungenerous enough to stop, and drive
+_them_ all away. This raised a universal shout among the people for me,
+and the general seemed mighty bad plagued. But he got more plagued than
+this at the polls in August, as I have stated before.
+
+This election was in 1827, and I can say, on my conscience, that I was,
+without disguise, the friend and supporter of General Jackson, upon his
+principles as he laid them down, and as "_I understood them_," before
+his election as president. During my two first sessions in Congress, Mr.
+Adams was president, and I worked along with what was called the Jackson
+party pretty well. I was re-elected to Congress, in 1829, by an
+overwhelming majority; and soon after the commencement of this second
+term, I saw, or thought I did, that it was expected of me that I was to
+bow to the name of Andrew Jackson, and follow him in all his motions,
+and mindings, and turnings, even at the expense of my conscience and
+judgment. Such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my
+principles. I know'd well enough, though, that if I didn't "hurra" for
+his name, the hue and cry was to be raised against me, and I was to be
+sacrificed, if possible. His famous, or rather I should say his
+in-_famous_, Indian bill was brought forward, and I opposed it from the
+purest motives in the world. Several of my colleagues got around me, and
+told me how well they loved me, and that I was ruining myself. They
+said this was a favourite measure of the president, and I ought to go
+for it. I told them I believed it was a wicked, unjust measure, and that
+I should go against it, let the cost to myself be what it might; that I
+was willing to go with General Jackson in every thing that I believed
+was honest and right; but, further than this, I wouldn't go for him, or
+any other man in the whole creation; that I would sooner be honestly and
+politically d--nd, than hypocritically immortalized. I had been elected
+by a majority of three thousand five hundred and eighty-five votes, and
+I believed they were honest men, and wouldn't want me to vote for any
+unjust notion, to please Jackson or any one else; at any rate, I was of
+age, and was determined to trust them. I voted against this Indian bill,
+and my conscience yet tells me that I gave a good honest vote, and one
+that I believe will not make me ashamed in the day of judgment. I served
+out my term, and though many amusing things happened, I am not disposed
+to swell my narrative by inserting them.
+
+When it closed, and I returned home, I found the storm had raised
+against me sure enough; and it was echoed from side to side, and from
+end to end of my district, that I had turned against Jackson. This was
+considered the unpardonable sin. I was hunted down like a wild varment,
+and in this hunt every little newspaper in the district, and every
+little pin-hook lawyer was engaged. Indeed, they were ready to print any
+and every thing that the ingenuity of man could invent against me. Each
+editor was furnished with the journals of Congress from head-quarters;
+and hunted out every vote I had missed in four sessions, whether from
+sickness or not, no matter, and each one was charged against me at
+_eight_ dollars. In all I had missed about _seventy_ votes, which they
+made amount to five hundred and sixty dollars; and they contended I had
+swindled the government out of this sum, as I had received my pay, as
+other members do. I was now again a candidate in 1830, while all the
+attempts were making against me; and every one of these little papers
+kept up a constant war on me, fighting with every scurrilous report they
+could catch.
+
+Over all I should have been elected, if it hadn't been, that but a few
+weeks before the election, the little four-pence-ha'penny limbs of the
+law fell on a plan to defeat me, which had the desired effect. They
+agreed to spread out over the district, and make appointments for me to
+speak, almost everywhere, to clear up the Jackson question. They would
+give me no notice of these appointments, and the people would meet in
+great crowds to hear what excuse Crockett had to make for quitting
+Jackson.
+
+But instead of Crockett's being there, this small-fry of lawyers would
+be there, with their saddle-bags full of the little newspapers and their
+journals of Congress; and would get up and speak, and read their
+scurrilous attacks on me, and would then tell the people that I was
+afraid to attend; and in this way would turn many against me. All this
+intrigue was kept a profound secret from me, till it was too late to
+counteract it; and when the election came, I had a majority in seventeen
+counties, putting all their votes together, but the eighteenth beat me;
+and so I was left out of Congress during those two years. The people of
+my district were induced, by these tricks, to take a stay on me for that
+time; but they have since found out that they were imposed on, and on
+re-considering my case, have reversed that decision; which, as the
+Dutchman said, "is as fair a ding as eber was."
+
+When I last declared myself a candidate, I knew that the district would
+be divided by the Legislature before the election would come on; and I
+moreover knew, that from the geographical situation of the country, the
+county of Madison, which was very strong, and which was the county that
+had given the majority that had beat me in the former race, should be
+left off from my district.
+
+But when the Legislature met, as I have been informed, and I have no
+doubt of the fact, Mr. Fitzgerald, my competitor, went up, and informed
+his friends in that body, that if Madison county was left off, he
+wouldn't run; for "that Crockett could beat Jackson himself in those
+parts, in any way they could fix it."
+
+The liberal Legislature you know, of course, gave him that county; and
+it is too clear to admit of dispute, that it was done to make a mash of
+me. In order to make my district in this way, they had to form the
+southern district of a string of counties around three sides of mine, or
+very nearly so. Had my old district been properly divided, it would have
+made two nice ones, in convenient nice form. But as it is, they are
+certainly the most unreasonably laid off of any in the state, or perhaps
+in the nation, or even in the te-total creation.
+
+However, when the election came on, the people of the district, and of
+Madison county among the rest, seemed disposed to prove to Mr.
+Fitzgerald and the Jackson Legislature, that they were not to be
+transferred like hogs, and horses, and cattle in the market; and they
+determined that I shouldn't be broke down, though I had to carry
+Jackson, and the enemies of the bank, and the legislative works all at
+once. I had Mr. Fitzgerald, it is true, for my open competitor, but he
+was helped along by all his little lawyers again, headed by old Black
+Hawk, as he is sometimes called, (alias) Adam Huntsman, with all his
+talents for writing "_Chronicles_," and such like foolish stuff.
+
+But one good thing was, and I must record it, the papers in the district
+were now beginning to say "fair play a little," and they would publish
+on both sides of the question. The contest was a warm one, and the
+battle well-fought; but I gained the day, and the Jackson horse was left
+a little behind. When the polls were compared, it turned out I had beat
+Fitz just two hundred and two votes, having made a mash of all their
+intrigues. After all this, the reader will perceive that I am now here
+in Congress, this 28th day of January, in the year of our Lord one
+thousand eight hundred and thirty-four; and that, what is more agreeable
+to my feelings as a freeman, I am at liberty to vote as my conscience
+and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me,
+or the driver at my heels, with his whip in hand, commanding me to
+ge-wo-haw, just at his pleasure. Look at my arms, you will find no
+party hand-cuff on them! Look at my neck, you will not find there any
+collar, with the engraving
+
+        MY DOG.
+
+              ANDREW JACKSON.
+
+
+But you will find me standing up to my rack, as the people's faithful
+representative, and the public's most obedient, very humble servant,
+
+              DAVID CROCKETT.
+
+
+
+
+                 THE END.
+
+
+
+
+CHESNUT STREET,
+    MARCH, 1834.
+
+NEW WORKS
+
+  LATELY PUBLISHED,
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+
+
+  In two Volumes, 12mo.
+  CONSTANCE;
+
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+
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+seasons have produced. It developes an intimate knowledge of the
+human heart, and a remarkable power in the delineation of
+character."--_Atlas._
+
+"This novel, in its sketches of English country society, is most
+successful; its portraits are very happy, its scenes very
+amusing."--_Spectator._
+
+"A picture of real life, drawn with equal truth, gaiety and feeling--the
+three graces of fiction."--_Literary Gazette._
+
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+the very highest order."--_Atlas._
+
+
+  In one Volume, 12mo.
+  CARWELL;
+
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+
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+both of plot and character, has few equals in modern fiction."
+
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+the human heart--a delicate and quick perception of the lovely and the
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+
+
+  In one Volume, 12mo.
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+
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+well devised jeu d'esprit."--_Literary Gazette._
+
+
+NEW WORKS PUBLISHED BY
+
+
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+
+TRAITS AND STORIES OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY.
+
+THIRD SERIES.
+
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+     critics: and several extracts from it have been extensively
+     published in our newspapers. It is altogether a better work than
+     any of the kind which has yet appeared--replete with humour, both
+     broad and delicate--and with occasional touches of pathos, which
+     have not been excelled by any writer of the present day. An
+     Edinburgh critic says that 'neither Miss Edgeworth, nor the author
+     of the O'Hara tales, could have written any thing more powerful
+     than this.'"--_Baltimore American._
+
+     "There seems to be a strong unanimity of opinion in favour of the
+     new British work entitled 'Traits and Stories of the Irish
+     Peasantry.' The work is proclaimed in the British journals, and
+     pronounced by readers in our country, to be equal in racy humour
+     and graphic delineation, to the very best sketches that have
+     appeared of Irish character, life, and manners."--_National
+     Gazette._
+
+
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+
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+
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+
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+
+
+In one Volume, 8vo.
+
+MEMOIRS OF VIDOCQ,
+
+THE CELEBRATED AGENT OF THE FRENCH POLICE.
+
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+     at the head of the French police. It is well written, and is full
+     of anecdote.
+
+
+In three Volumes, 12mo.
+
+PETER SIMPLE;
+
+OR, ADVENTURES OF A MIDSHIPMAN.
+
+COMPLETE.
+
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+
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+entertaining. The humour sometimes approaches to downright
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+
+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+should call (if we did not know the word might be deemed offensive, in
+which sense we do not mean it) the _slang_ of good society.
+
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+languid; they have no generous ambition; they are _little people!_ they
+are fine people! This it is that makes her novel of our social life so
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+Pelham._
+
+
+In Two Volumes, 12mo.
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+
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+
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+
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+met with for a long time; the idea is very original, and brought into
+play with a lively air of truth, which gives a dramatic reality even to
+the supernatural."--_Literary Gazette._
+
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+occasionally there is a deep and thrilling touch of pathos, which we
+feel not a bit the less acutely, because the trouble and wo of the
+parties have originated in the familiar and somewhat laughable act of
+pulling an ear."--_Court Magazine._
+
+
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+
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+
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+nature."--_Spectator._
+
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+
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+and altogether deserving of being classed with the first-rate novels of
+the day."--_Courier._
+
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+Monthly Magazine._
+
+
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+
+A SUBALTERN IN AMERICA;
+
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+
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+and an English officer writing about America, his book is tolerably
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+understand, than has been customary with that kind of authors.
+
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+is written."
+
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+
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+active share in the several campaigns, of which he professes to give an
+account; and if his narrations are somewhat partial to his own side of
+the question, it is but the indulgence of a very common foible, which
+may be the more readily excused, as the means of correction are at
+hand."--_Baltimore Patriot._
+
+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+is the great characteristic of her pages."--_Bulwer's New Monthly
+Magazine._
+
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+vigour. Keen in observation, lively in detail, and with a peculiar and
+piquant style, Mrs. Charles Gore gives to the novel that charm which
+makes the fascination of the best French memoir writers."--_London
+Literary Gazette._
+
+
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+
+LEGENDS AND TALES OF IRELAND
+
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+
+
+E. L. CAREY AND A. HART
+
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+
+THE MAN-OF-WAR'S-MAN;
+
+By the Author of "TOM CRINGLE'S LOG."
+
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+The author of Tom Cringle's Log is the most popular writer of that
+class, and those sketches collected not long since into a volume by
+the same publishers, in this city, were universally read. A large
+edition was soon exhausted. The present is, we believe, an earlier
+production, and has many of the same merits."--_Baltimore Gazette._
+
+"Messrs. Carey & Hart have published, in two volumes, 'The
+Man-of-War's-Man.' The success which attended the publication of
+'Tom Cringle's Log,' might well induce its ingenious author to
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+illustration the manners and customs of seamen. The work now before
+us is of the kind, well imagined, and executed with all the tact
+and clearness that distinguished the 'Log Book' of Master Cringle,
+with the advantages of a more regular plot and interesting
+denouement."--_U. S. Gazette._
+
+"Nobody needs be told what sort of a book Tom Cringle can
+write--that humorous and most admirable of sailors! We may just
+remark that the reader will find in the present volume the same
+power of description and knowledge of the world--the same stirring
+adventures, phrases, dialects, and incidents which rendered his
+last work so extravagantly popular. The printing is uncommonly good
+for a novel."
+
+
+In one Volume, 8vo.
+
+THE AMERICAN
+
+FLOWER GARDEN DIRECTORY,
+
+CONTAINING PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS FOR THE CULTURE OF PLANTS IN THE
+
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+
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+instructions for erecting a
+
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+
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+work. The whole adapted to either large or small gardens, with
+lists of annuals, bienniels, and ornamental shrubs, contents, a
+general index, and a frontispiece of Camellia Fimbriata.
+
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+
+EXOTIC NURSERYMEN AND FLORISTS.
+
+
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+
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+
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+
+
+In Two Vols. 12mo.
+
+FIRST LOVE, A NOVEL.
+
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+feelings and motives, who well understands her sex."--_Spectator._
+
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+dawning of life's morning, First Love, and the subsequent progress of
+that passion, are indeed delightfully sketched."--_Morning Post._
+
+
+In Two Volumes, 12mo.
+
+TRAITS AND STORIES OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY
+
+FIRST SERIES.
+
+"Admirable--truly, intensely Irish: never were the outrageous
+whimsicalities of that strange, wild, imaginative people so
+characteristically described; nor amidst all the fun, frolic, and folly,
+is there any dearth of poetry, pathos, and passion. The author's a
+jewel."--_Glasgow Journal._
+
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+story-telling,--whether partaking of the tender or the facetious,
+or the grotesque,--let them purchase these characteristic
+sketches."--_Sheffield Iris._
+
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+lower ranks of Patlanders, as are to be met with in the pages of these
+delightful volumes."--_Bristol Journal._
+
+"This is a capital book, full of fun and humour, and most
+characteristically Irish."--_New Monthly Magazine._
+
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+written any thing more powerful than this."--_Edinburgh Literary
+Gazette._
+
+"We do not hesitate to say, that for a minute and accurate sketching of
+the character, manners, and language of the lower orders of the Irish,
+no book was ever published at all equal to this."--_Spectator._
+
+
+In Two Volumes, 12mo.
+
+TRAITS AND STORIES OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY.
+
+SECOND SERIES.
+
+"Traits and Stories of Irish Peasantry.--The whole story is one of that
+mirth-inspiring nature, that those who read it without hearty laughter
+must be either miserable or very imperturbable."--_Metropolitan, edited
+by T. Campbell._
+
+"There is strength, vigour--and above all--truth, in every story, in
+every sentence, every line he writes. The statesman ought to read such
+books as these; they would tell him more of the true state of the
+country than he has ever heard from the lips of her orators, or the
+despatches of the 'Castle Hacks.' We wish Mr. Carlton would send forth a
+cheap edition, that 'Traits and Stories' of Irish peasants might be in
+the hands of people as well as peers."--_Bulwer's New Monthly
+Magazine._
+
+
+In Two Volumes, 12mo.
+
+THE STAFF-OFFICER. OR, THE SOLDIER OF FORTUNE.
+
+A TALE OF REAL LIFE.
+
+"The web of life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together; our
+virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not, and our crimes
+would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues."
+
+
+BY OLIVER MOORE.
+
+"We are prepared to admit that our extracts do not do justice to the
+work: the writer's power is in discriminating _female_ character; but as
+he judiciously makes it develope itself by incident, to illustrate this
+would require scenes and pages to be transferred to our columns. As a
+whole, this novel will be read with interest: it is light and pleasant;
+with many very natural scenes, many excellent and well-drawn characters,
+and without one line or word of affectation or pretence."--_Athenæum._
+
+"This is a most entertaining work: it is written with great spirit,
+elegance, and candour. The delineation of character (particularly that
+of many distinguished individuals officially connected with Ireland
+during the Pitt administration) is skilfully and vividly drawn; and the
+multifarious incidents--several of which are of a highly _piquant_
+description--are given with a tact and delicacy creditable to the
+judgment and talent of the author. We can say with truth, that we have
+fairly gone through this tale of real life without being cloyed or
+wearied for a single moment; but that it excited, and kept up, an
+interest in our minds which few volumes designed for mere amusement have
+been able to inspire."--_Brighton Herald._
+
+
+In Two Volumes, 12mo.
+
+THE NAVAL OFFICER;
+
+OR, SCENES AND ADVENTURES IN THE LIFE OF FRANK MILDMAY.
+
+By the Author of "PETER SIMPLE," "THE KING'S OWN," etc.
+
+"This is the most seaman-like composition that has yet issued from the
+press. We recommend it to all who 'live at home at ease,' and need
+scarcely say, that no man-of-wars man should remain an hour without
+it."--_Atlas._
+
+The following beautiful and judicious compliment to the genius of
+Captain Marryatt, author of the Naval Officer, is from the pen of Mr.
+Bulwer, who, it will be acknowledged, is no inexperienced or unobserving
+critic:
+
+"Far remote from the eastern and the voluptuous--from the visionary and
+refining--from the pale colouring of drawing-room life, and the subtle
+delicacies of female sentiment and wit, the genius of Captain Marryatt
+embodies itself in the humour, the energy, the robust and masculine
+vigour of bustling and actual existence; it has been braced by the sea
+breezes; it walks abroad in the mart of busy men, with a firm step and a
+cheerful and healthy air. Not, indeed, that he is void of a certain
+sentiment, and an intuition into the more hidden sources of mental
+interest; but these are not his forte, or his appropriate element. He is
+best in a rich and various humour--rich, for there is nothing poor or
+threadbare in his materials. His characters are not, as Scott's, after
+all, mere delineations of one oddity, uttering the same eternal
+phraseology, from the 'prodigious' of Dominie Sampson, to 'provant' of
+Major Dalgetty--a laughable, but somewhat poor invention: they are
+formed of compound and complex characteristics, and evince no trifling
+knowledge of the metaphysics of social life."
+
+
+In Two Volumes, 12mo.
+
+THE CONTRAST A NOVEL.
+
+By EARL MULGRAVE, Author of "MATILDA," "YES AND NO," etc.
+
+"'Yes and No' contained the best _tableaux_ of actual--human--English
+society in the nineteenth century, of any novel we know of. The same
+characteristics that distinguished the most agreeable novel are equally
+remarkable in its successors."--_Bulwer's New Monthly Magazine._
+
+"'Contrast' cannot fail to prove interesting."--_Court Journal._
+
+"These volumes possess the rather uncommon merit of a very interesting
+story. The design is to paint a man whose strong feelings are curbed by
+an over-fastidiousness--what the French so happily term un-homme
+difficile."--_London Literary Gazette._
+
+"Messrs. Carey and Hart have republished, in two neat volumes, Earl
+Mulgrave's novel of the 'Contrast,' which has been so favourably
+received in England. It is said to be one of the best novels of the
+kind, that has issued from the press for years."--_Philadelphia
+Inquirer._
+
+"'Pelham,' and 'Yes and No,' are perhaps the only paintings of the
+present time which are drawn with the accuracy of knowledge, and the
+vivacity of talent. Were we to be asked by a foreigner to recommend
+those novels which, founded on truth, gave the most just delineation of
+the higher classes in England, it is to the above mentioned works we
+should refer. _The present volumes, however, are an infinite improvement
+on their predecessor._"--_London Literary Gazette._
+
+
+In One Volume, 8vo.
+
+MEMOIRS OF MARSHAL NEY,
+
+COMPILED FROM PAPERS IN THE POSSESSION OF HIS FAMILY.
+
+The work has been put together under the direction and management of the
+Duke of Elchingen, Marshal Ney's second son, who has affixed his
+signature to every sheet sent to press.
+
+"They may be regarded as the Ney Papers, connected together by an
+interesting biography; the anecdotes with which they are interspersed
+have plainly been collected with great pains from all the early friends
+of that illustrious warrior."--_Blackwood's Magazine._
+
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+he left behind him at his death, consisting of anecdotic and
+biographical fragments, accounts of his divers missions and campaigns,
+and the substance of many extraordinary secrets intrusted to him as a
+general and a statesman. All these materials throw great light upon the
+history of the French empire, as the details given in the memoirs
+possess the strongest interest."--_Pennsylvania Inquirer._
+
+
+In One Volume, 12mo.
+
+CONVERSATIONS ON VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY;
+
+  COMPREHENDING THE ELEMENTS OF BOTANY, WITH THEIR APPLICATION TO
+  AGRICULTURE.
+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+At once the source and glory of mankind."
+
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+though small, of infinite value."--_Baltimore Minerva._
+
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+we join heartily in recommending it to our friends, whether married or
+single--for much useful instruction may be gathered from its
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+
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+_whispered_ in a tone too low to be overheard by the men."--_Daily
+Chronicle._
+
+
+In One Volume, 18mo.
+
+  PRINCIPLES OF THE ART OF MODERN HORSEMANSHIP FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
+  IN WHICH ALL THE LATE IMPROVEMENTS ARE APPLIED TO PRACTICE.
+
+Translated from the French, by DANIEL J. DESMOND.
+
+THE ART OF HORSEMANSHIP.--This is the title of a neat little work
+translated from the French of Mr. Lebeaud, by Daniel J. Desmond, Esq. of
+this city, and just published by Carey & Hart. It gives full and
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+treatment of the animal under exercise, &c. An appendix is added,
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+
+The Philadelphia public are under obligations to Mr. Desmond for this
+translation. We have long needed a manual of horsemanship, to correct
+the inelegant habits in which many of our riders indulge, and to produce
+uniformity in the art of equitation. We see daily in our streets,
+mounted men, who totter in their seats as if suffering under an
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+attentive readers.--_Philadelphia Gazette._
+
+
+In One Volume, 12mo
+
+TWO HUNDRED RECEIPTS IN DOMESTIC FRENCH COOKERY.
+
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+
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+
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+
+
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+
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+
+Being a Practical Treatise on the Preparation of Colours, and their
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+Chymistry, Natural History, and Mineralogy, in the Academy of Geneva.
+First American, from the third London Edition, corrected and
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+
+
+In One Volume, 18mo.
+
+THE FAMILY DYER AND SCOURER;
+
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+article of Dress, whether made of Wool, Cotton, Silk, Flax, or Hair;
+also Bed and Window Furniture, Carpets, Hearth-rugs, Counterpanes,
+Bonnets, Feathers, &c. By WILLIAM TUCKER, Dyer and Scourer in the
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+
+
+ELEMENTS OF MORALITY FOR THE INSTRUCTION OF YOUTH.
+
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+
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+
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+
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+
+PICTURE OF PHILADELPHIA;
+
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+this Metropolis, forming a Guide for Strangers, accompanied by a new
+Plan of the city. In a neat pocket volume.
+
+
+In One Volume, 12mo.
+
+THE HORSE IN ALL HIS VARIETIES AND USES;
+
+His breeding, rearing, and management, whether in labour or rest; with
+RULES occasionally interspersed, for his PRESERVATION from disease. By
+JOHN LAWRENCE, author of "The History of the Horse," etc.
+
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+and extensively valuable, it is one of the most amusing the reader
+will meet with in a thousand, complete and unique, embracing every
+possible subject that can be connected with the horse."--_Monthly
+Magazine._
+
+
+CHESNUT STREET,
+OCTOBER, 1833.
+
+NEW WORKS PUBLISHED AND PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION,
+
+BY E. L. CAREY & A. HART, PHILAD.
+
+
+In two Volumes, 12mo.
+
+THE ROUÉ
+
+By the author of the "OXONIANS."
+
+
+In one Volume, 8vo.
+
+A TREATISE ON LESSER SURGERY; OR THE MINOR SURGICAL OPERATIONS.
+
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+
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+Operative Medicine," translated from the French, with notes, and an
+appendix; by
+
+WILLIAM C. ROBERTS AND JAS. B. KISSAM.
+
+
+In two Volumes, 12mo.
+
+MANNERS OF THE DAY. A NOVEL.
+
+
+In one Volume, 12mo.
+
+MAGENDIE'S FORMULARY.
+
+A new Edition, revised and corrected.
+
+
+In two Volumes, 12mo.
+
+TALES OF THE MUNSTER FESTIVALS.
+
+By the Author of the "COLLEGIANS."
+
+
+In Two Volumes, 12mo.
+
+  TRAVELS IN VARIOUS PARTS OF PERU; INCLUDING A YEAR'S RESIDENCE IN
+  POTOSI.
+
+  By EDMUND TEMPLE, Kt. of the Royal and distinguished Order of CHARLES
+  III.
+
+"These travels in Peru will long maintain their reputation for the
+accuracy of detail, the spirit of the style, and the utility of the
+information they contain. The professional matter is very
+valuable."--_Bulwer's New Monthly Magazine._
+
+"There is much to instruct, and a great deal to amuse. Amid the details
+of personal adventures, there is a great deal of shrewd and strong
+observation."--_London Monthly Magazine._
+
+"We have met with no volumes of travels in that country with which, upon
+the whole, we have been so much pleased as the one before
+us."--_Baltimore Gazette._
+
+"This is an instructive and entertaining work."--_National Gazette._
+
+"This book is one of the most entertaining that has been issued from the
+press for some time."--_Pennsylvania Inquirer._
+
+
+In Two Volumes, 12mo.
+
+SYDENHAM; OR, MEMOIRS OF A MAN OF THE WORLD.
+
+"A new novel of fashionable life, under the title of 'Sydenham, or
+Memoirs of a Man of the World,' will shortly be given to the public. It
+exhibits the history of a young man of rank and fortune, who, being of a
+decidedly satirical turn, resolves to gratify his favourite penchant to
+ascertain the internal state of fashionable society, and minutely to
+observe human nature under every variety of shade and circumstance.
+Among other characters with whom he comes in contact, is the celebrated
+BRUMMEL, who figures under the name of Beaumont: this gentleman arrests
+his peculiar attention, and serves him for a complete study. The work
+is, moreover, illustrative of those sets or circles in the world of ton
+which have never been depicted in the pages of fiction, and respecting
+which so much curiosity has long been felt."--_New Monthly Magazine._
+
+"Each of these volumes is in fact a separate work--each in a different
+style and spirit--each aspiring to a different fame in composition.
+'Sydenham' is a capital work, which, without the trouble of puffing,
+must make a great stir in the upper and political circles."--_London
+Lit. Gaz._
+
+"Sydenham is well written, and contains much pleasant and some severe
+satire. The present Whig ministers in England are handled without
+gloves, and a number of distinguished personages occupy more conspicuous
+places than they would have been likely to choose, had the matter been
+referred to themselves."--_Courier._
+
+"The work before us is one of the most powerful of its class; it bears
+intrinsic evidence of a new writer. The portrait of Brummel, the 'arch
+dandy,' is excellent; and all the scenes in which he is engaged are
+managed with skill and tact. There is, in fact, sufficient material in
+this book for three or four novels."--_New Monthly Magazine._
+
+"All the personages are of course real, though under fictitious names;
+these pages are, in reality, memoirs of the intrigues of the times, full
+of keen observation, graphic sketches of character, biting sarcasm, one
+page of which would make the fortune of a pamphlet."--_London Gazette._
+
+
+In Two Volumes, 12mo.
+
+  RECORDS OF TRAVELS IN TURKEY, GREECE, &c. IN THE YEARS 1829, 1830, AND
+  1831; AND OF A CRUISE IN THE BLACK SEA, WITH THE CAPTAIN PASHA.
+
+BY ADOLPHUS SLADE, ESQ.
+
+"One of the most valuable and interesting works which has yet been
+placed in our hands, on the domestic state of Turkey."--_Monthly
+Review._
+
+"We do not know when we have met with two volumes more amusing--they are
+full of highly entertaining and curious matter."--_Court Jour._
+
+"The work before us supplies the best description of this remarkable
+nation."--_Courier._
+
+"One of the most amusing and interesting of oriental travellers, none
+having ever equalled him in a thorough knowledge of the true state of
+society, and the true character of the Turks."--_Spectator._
+
+"We can warmly recommend this book for perusal, it is not only very
+amusing but very valuable."--_Metropolitan._
+
+"We can assure our readers that no records of travels in modern times,
+with which we are acquainted, presents so many features of general
+attraction as the volumes before us."--_London Monthly Review._
+
+"Mr. Slade has produced, without any trace of pretension, one of the
+most sensible and agreeable books of travel we have ever had the
+pleasure to peruse."--_United Service Journal._
+
+
+In Two Volumes, 12mo.
+
+LEGENDS OF THE RHINE.
+
+By T. C. GRATTAN, Esq. Author of "HIGH-WAYS AND BY-WAYS."
+
+"We are well content to pass an hour once more with the lively and
+entertaining author of 'High-ways and By-ways." The hour has not yet
+gone by, and we have not completed the perusal of the two volumes; but
+the tales we have observed are worthy the repute in which the writer is
+held, and are even of a higher order--more chaste in language and
+perfect in style."--_Boston Traveller._
+
+"Messrs. Carey and Hart have just issued 'Legends of the Rhine,' by the
+author of 'High-ways and By-ways.' To those who recollect Mr. Grattan's
+former writings, (and who among novel readers does not?) it is only
+necessary to say, that the present 'Legends' are, in no respect,
+inferior to their predecessors. The traditions which he has here wrought
+into shape are all said to have an existence among the dwellers near the
+mighty river; and it is certain they are full of romantic interest. The
+'Legends' are twelve in number, and, though not equal in all respects,
+there is no one of them that does not possess a strong claim to
+admiration."--_Saturday Courier._
+
+"Few sets of stories, published within the last ten years, have been
+more popular than those called 'High-ways and By-ways.' The author of
+these, after having produced two or three successful works of a
+different sort, has given us two volumes of tales, with the title
+'Legends of the Rhine,' which are to be published to-morrow, we
+understand, by Carey and Hart. The author professes, seriously, to have
+founded his narratives on traditions yet extant among those who live
+near the banks of the great German river; and many of them end so
+tragically that we can hardly suspect the writer of having invented them
+for his own amusement or that of his readers. They are all interesting,
+though not all skilfully framed; and each of them contains pages that
+may be placed in a competition with the most shining passages of any
+other living novel writer."
+
+
+In Two Volumes, 12mo.
+
+STANLEY BUXTON; OR, THE SCHOOLFELLOWS.
+
+  By JOHN GALT, Esq., Author of "ANNALS OF THE PARISH," "LAWRIE TODD,"
+  "EBEN ERSKINE," etc.
+
+"While guile is guiltless, and life's business play,
+Friendships are formed that never know decay."
+
+"Oh, that all novels were like this piece of admirable
+fiction."--_Spectator._
+
+"We must say this work is in Mr. Galt's best style, the volume before us
+contains samples of his tastes and of his powers."--_Bulwer's New
+Monthly Magazine._
+
+"Mr. Galt's new novel is on our table, and we regret we have not space
+to go further into the arcana of 'Stanley Buxton,' in which the author
+has aimed at painting natural feelings in situations not common, and
+with much success. Some of his descriptions are also deserving of
+special praise. Two episodes in the second volume add to the general
+interest, and further recommend the work to public favour."--_London
+Literary Gazette._
+
+"We find in this work the force of conception, and the full execution
+which distinguish the 'Annals of the Parish,' and 'Lawrie
+Todd.'"--_Sun._
+
+"The new novel, 'Stanley Buxton,' just published by Carey and Hart, may
+be called one of the very best of Mr. Galt's productions."--_Daily
+Chronicle._
+
+"In 'Stanley Buxton' there is the same delightful freshness, the same
+striking originality of purpose, the same easy and flowing, yet racy
+and spirited manner which characterized the 'Annals of the
+Parish.'"--_Saturday Courier._
+
+"For touching the heart, for keen knowledge of nature, and for quiet and
+beautiful descriptions, like the still life in a painter's sketch, Galt
+possesses a vision and a power, that are not often surpassed, except by
+Bulwer. The author of 'Stanley Buxton' is infinitely superior to
+D'Israeli, whose imagination is as excursive and capricious as the wing
+of a sea-fowl."--_Chronicle._
+
+"Mr. Galt is a writer so well known and so deservedly admired, that the
+announcement of a new novel from his pen is sufficient to awaken general
+curiosity."--_Gazette._
+
+
+In Two Volumes, 12mo.
+
+FITZ GEORGE.
+
+A NOVEL.
+
+"Smiles without mirth, and pastimes without pleasure,
+Youth without honour, age without respect."--_Byron._
+
+"There are scenes in it which must awaken attention and interest; it is
+evidently written by a powerful and accustomed hand."--_Athenæum._
+
+"Fitz George is a production of great talent."--_Weekly Despatch._
+
+"If all novels were like this, they would soon be in the hands of
+philosophers as well as fashionables."--_True Sun._
+
+"Should a library be formed in Buckingham Palace, these volumes should
+have a shelf in it to themselves."--_Bell's New Weekly Messenger._
+
+"The whole book abounds with the most stirring interest."--_National
+Omnibus._
+
+
+In Two Volumes, 12mo.
+
+OUR ISLAND.
+
+COMPRISING _FORGERY, A TALE_; _AND_, _THE LUNATIC, A TALE_.
+
+"There is a great share of talent in these pages, which have also the
+merit of being laid chiefly among scenes new to a large portion of our
+readers."--_Literary Gazette._
+
+"_The Lunatic._--This is indeed an excellent tale--well told--with
+variety of incidents and character, and with much humour. Not to speak
+in disparagement of the first tale, we must confess that we have been
+highly pleased with the second, and we think our readers' time will be
+amply repaid by a perusal of both."--_London Monthly Magazine._
+
+"This work is of a generally interesting character, and we feel it our
+duty to encourage the publication of such productions as these tales,
+since they point attention to errors of legislation."--_Weekly
+Despatch._
+
+
+In Two Volumes, 12mo.
+
+PETER SIMPLE; OR, ADVENTURES OF A MIDSHIPMAN.
+
+By the Author of "THE KING'S OWN."
+
+
+In Two Volumes, 12mo.
+
+TOM CRINGLE'S LOG.
+
+"The scenes are chiefly nautical, and we can safely say, that no author
+of the present day, not even excepting our own Cooper, has surpassed him
+in his element."--_U. S. Gazette._
+
+"The sketches are not only replete with entertainment, but useful, as
+affording an accurate and vivid description of scenery, and of life and
+manners in the West Indies."--_Boston Traveller._
+
+"We think none who have read this work will deny that the author is the
+best nautical writer who has yet appeared. He is not Smollett, he is not
+Cooper; but he is far superior to them both."--_Boston Transcript._
+
+"The scenes are chiefly nautical, and are described in a style of beauty
+and interest never surpassed by any writer."--_Baltimore Gazette._
+
+"The author has been justly compared with Cooper, and many of his
+sketches are in fact equal to any from the pen of our celebrated
+countryman."--_Saturday Evening Post._
+
+
+In Two Volumes, 12mo.
+
+TOM CRINGLE'S LOG. SECOND SERIES.
+
+
+In Three Volumes, 12mo.
+
+TOM CRINGLE'S LOG. FIRST AND SECOND SERIES.
+
+A NEW EDITION COMPLETE.
+
+
+In One Volume, 8vo.
+
+_HALL ON THE LOSS OF BLOOD._
+
+RESEARCHES
+
+PRINCIPALLY RELATIVE TO
+
+THE MORBID AND CURATIVE EFFECTS OF LOSS OF BLOOD.
+
+BY MARSHALL HALL, M.D., F.R.S.E., &c. &c.
+
+"It will be seen that we have been much pleased with Dr. Hall's work
+generally; we think it is calculated to do much good in placing the
+subject of the due institution of blood-letting on a practical basis.
+Dr. Hall has subjoined a plan of a Register of Cases of Blood-letting,
+which would be a most useful record, if properly kept; and we cannot
+recommend such a detail of facts, to practitioners, in too high
+terms."--_American Journal of Medical Sciences, No. XI._
+
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+sufferers, but we know some have perished from direct exhaustion
+complicated with reaction, who might have been saved, if the principles
+and practice of our author had been known and understood."--_N. A. Med.
+and Surg. Journal, No. XX. for October, 1830._
+
+
+In One Volume, 8vo.
+
+_TEALE ON NEURALGIC DISEASES._
+
+A TREATISE ON NEURALGIC DISEASES,
+
+  Dependent upon Irritation of the Spinal Marrow and Ganglia of the
+  Sympathetic Nerve.
+
+By THOMAS PRIDGIN TEALE.
+
+Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, of the Royal Medical
+Society of Edinburgh, Senior Surgeon to the Leeds Public Dispensary.
+
+Price 31 cents.
+
+"It is a source of genuine gratification to meet with a work of this
+character, when it is so often our lot to be obliged to labour hard to
+winnow a few grains of information from the great mass of dullness,
+ignorance, and misstatement with which we are beset, and cannot too
+highly recommend it to the attention of the profession."--_American
+Journal of the Medical Sciences, No. X._
+
+
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+FROISSART AND HIS TIMES.
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+BY THE LATE BARRY ST. LEGER.
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+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+      Transcriber Notes
+
+    Obvious punctuation and spelling errors have been corrected.
+
+    The following are as in the original:
+
+    Major Russell and Major Russel are used interchangeably in the
+    book.
+
+    Page4 original: and the trick he has played off on the publick.
+
+    Page 10 its versus it's original: use, its just nobody's business. Big
+    men
+
+    Page 86 (scroundrell's) original: old scroundrell's two big sons
+    with us, and made
+
+    Page 119 flower is old english for flour original: man a cupfull of
+    flower. With this, we thickened
+
+    Page 168 bran-fire and branfire original: This is," said I, "a
+    branfire new way of doing - clearly not hypenated in this line.
+
+
+    The following changes have been made:
+
+    Page 17 original: bioagraphers, I should not only inform the public
+
+    replacement: biographers, I should not only inform the public
+
+    Page 141 original: and years all open, to catch every word I would
+
+    replacement: and ears all open, to catch every word I would
+
+    Page 158 original: where I stop'd to pull of my wet clothes, and
+    put
+
+    replacement: where I stop'd to pull off my wet clothes, and put
+
+
+    Page 230 original: and mistatement with which we are beset,
+
+    replacement: and misstatement with which we are beset,
+
+
+
+
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+<h1>
+NARRATIVE<br />
+<small>OF THE</small><br />
+LIFE OF DAVID CROCKETT,<br />
+<small>OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE</small>.</h1>
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="blockquotesm">I leave this rule for others when I'm dead,
+Be always sure you're right&mdash;<span class="smcap">THEN GO AHEAD</span>!</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote right smcap">The Author.</p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="extraspace3top center">WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.</p>
+
+<p class="extraspace3top center">SIXTH EDITION.</p>
+
+<p class="extraspace3top center">PHILADELPHIA.<br />
+E. L. CAREY AND A. HART.<br />
+BALTIMORE:<br />
+CAREY, HART &amp; CO.</p>
+
+<p class="extraspacetop center">1834.</p>
+
+<p class="extraspace3top center">
+Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1834,<br />
+<span class="smcap">By David Crockett</span>,<br />
+In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia.<br />
+<br />
+STEREOTYPED BY L. JOHNSON,<br />
+PHILADELPHIA.<br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="r65" />
+
+<h2>PREFACE.</h2>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[3]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="extraspace3top">Fashion is a thing I care mighty little
+about, except when it happens to run just
+exactly according to my own notion; and
+I was mighty nigh sending out my book
+without any preface at all, until a notion
+struck me, that perhaps it was necessary to
+explain a little the reason why and wherefore
+I had written it.</p>
+
+<p>Most of authors seek fame, but I seek for
+justice,&mdash;a holier impulse than ever entered
+into the ambitious struggles of the votaries
+of that <i>fickle</i>, <i>flirting</i> goddess.</p>
+
+<p>A publication has been made to the
+world, which has done me much injustice;
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[4]</a></span>and the catchpenny errors which it
+contains, have been already too long sanctioned
+by my silence. I don't know the
+author of the book&mdash;and indeed I don't
+want to know him; for after he has taken
+such a liberty with my name, and made
+such an effort to hold me up to public
+ridicule, he cannot calculate on any thing
+but my displeasure. If he had been content
+to have written his opinions about me,
+however contemptuous they might have
+been, I should have had less reason to complain.
+But when he professes to give my
+narrative (as he often does) in my own
+language, and then puts into my mouth
+such language as would disgrace even an
+outlandish African, he must himself be
+sensible of the injustice he has done me,
+and the trick he has played off on the publick.
+I have met with hundreds, if not with
+thousands of people, who have formed their
+opinions of my appearance, habits, language,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[5]</a></span>
+and every thing else from that deceptive
+work.</p>
+
+<p>They have almost in every instance expressed
+the most profound astonishment at
+finding me in human shape, and with the
+<i>countenance</i>, <i>appearance</i>, and <i>common feelings</i>
+of a human being. It is to correct all
+these false notions, and to do justice to myself,
+that I have written.</p>
+
+<p>It is certain that the writer of the book
+alluded to has gathered up many imperfect
+scraps of information concerning me, as in
+parts of his work there is some little semblance
+of truth. But I ask him, if this
+notice should ever reach his eye, how
+would he have liked it, if I had treated <i>him</i>
+so?&mdash;if I had put together such a bundle of
+ridiculous stuff, and headed it with <i>his</i>
+name, and sent it out upon the world without
+ever even condescending to ask <i>his</i> permission?
+To these questions, all upright<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[6]</a></span>
+men must give the same answer. It was
+wrong; and the desire to make money
+by it, is no apology for such injustice to a
+fellow man.</p>
+
+<p>But I let him pass; as my wish is greatly
+more to vindicate myself, than to condemn
+him.</p>
+
+<p>In the following pages I have endeavoured
+to give the reader a plain, honest, homespun
+account of my state in life, and some
+few of the difficulties which have attended
+me along its journey, down to this time.
+I am perfectly aware, that I have related
+many small and, as I fear, uninteresting
+circumstances; but if so, my apology is,
+that it was rendered necessary by a desire
+to link the different periods of my life together,
+as they have passed, from my childhood
+onward, and thereby to enable the
+reader to select such parts of it as he may
+relish most, if, indeed, there is any thing in
+it which may suit his palate.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>I have also been operated on by another
+consideration. It is this:&mdash;I know, that
+obscure as I am, my name is making a considerable
+deal of fuss in the world. I can't
+tell why it is, nor in what it is to end. Go
+where I will, everybody seems anxious to
+get a peep at me; and it would be hard to
+tell which would have the advantage, if
+I, and the "Government," and "Black
+Hawk," and a great eternal big caravan of
+<i>wild varments</i> were all to be showed at the
+same time in four different parts of any of
+the big cities in the nation. I am not so
+sure that I shouldn't get the most custom
+of any of the crew. There must therefore
+be something in me, or about me, that attracts
+attention, which is even mysterious
+to myself. I can't understand it, and I
+therefore put all the facts down, leaving
+the reader free to take his choice of
+them.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[8]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>On the subject of my style, it is bad
+enough, in all conscience, to please critics,
+if that is what they are after. They are a
+sort of vermin, though, that I sha'n't even
+so much as stop to brush off. If they want
+to work on my book, just let them go
+ahead; and after they are done, they had
+better blot out all their criticisms, than to
+know what opinion I would express of
+<i>them</i>, and by what sort of a curious name
+I would call <i>them</i>, if I was standing near
+them, and looking over their shoulders.
+They will, at most, have only their trouble
+for their pay. But I rather expect I shall
+have them on my side.</p>
+
+<p>But I don't know of any thing in my
+book to be criticised on by honourable men.
+Is it on my spelling?&mdash;that's not my trade.
+Is it on my grammar?&mdash;I hadn't time to
+learn it, and make no pretensions to it. Is
+it on the order and arrangement of my<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</a></span>
+book?&mdash;I never wrote one before, and never
+read very many; and, of course, know
+mighty little about that. Will it be on
+the authorship of the book?&mdash;this I claim,
+and I'll hang on to it, like a wax plaster.
+The whole book is my own, and every
+sentiment and sentence in it. I would not
+be such a fool, or knave either, as to deny
+that I have had it hastily run over by a
+friend or so, and that some little alterations
+have been made in the spelling and grammar;
+and I am not so sure that it is not
+the worse of even that, for I despise this
+way of spelling contrary to nature. And as
+for grammar, it's pretty much a thing of
+nothing at last, after all the fuss that's
+made about it. In some places, I wouldn't
+suffer either the spelling, or grammar, or
+any thing else to be touch'd; and therefore
+it will be found in my own way.</p>
+
+<p>But if any body complains that I have<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[10]</a></span>
+had it looked over, I can only say to him,
+her, or them&mdash;as the case may be&mdash;that while
+critics were learning grammar, and learning
+to spell, I, and "Doctor Jackson,
+L.L.D." were fighting in the wars; and
+if our books, and messages, and proclamations,
+and cabinet writings, and so forth,
+and so on, should need a little looking
+over, and a little correcting of the spelling
+and the grammar to make them fit for
+use, its just nobody's business. Big men
+have more important matters to attend
+to than crossing their <i>t</i>'s&mdash;, and dotting
+their <i>i</i>'s&mdash;, and such like small things.
+But the "Government's" name is to the
+proclamation, and my name's to the book;
+and if I didn't write the book, the "Government"
+didn't write the proclamation,
+which no man <i>dares to deny</i>!</p>
+
+<p>But just read for yourself, and my ears
+for a heel tap, if before you get through<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</a></span>
+you don't say, with many a good-natured
+smile and hearty laugh, "This is truly
+the very thing itself&mdash;the exact image of
+its Author,</p>
+
+<p class="rightinside">
+DAVID CROCKETT."</p>
+
+<p class="extraspace3top smcap left"> Washington City,</p>
+<p>February 1st, 1834.</p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</a></span></p>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[13]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<h1>
+<small>NARRATIVE<br />
+OF THE<br />
+LIFE OF DAVID CROCKETT.</small>
+</h1>
+
+
+
+<hr class="r65" />
+<h2>CHAPTER I.</h2>
+
+
+<p>As the public seem to feel some interest in the
+history of an individual so humble as I am, and
+as that history can be so well known to no person
+living as to myself, I have, after so long a time,
+and under many pressing solicitations from my
+friends and acquaintances, at last determined to
+put my own hand to it, and lay before the world
+a narrative on which they may at least rely as
+being true. And seeking no ornament or colouring
+for a plain, simple tale of truth, I throw aside
+all hypocritical and fawning apologies, and, according
+to my own maxim, just "<i>go ahead</i>."
+Where I am not known, I might, perhaps, gain
+some little credit by having thrown around this
+volume some of the flowers of learning; but<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[14]</a></span>
+where I am known, the vile cheatery would soon
+be detected, and like the foolish jackdaw, that
+with a <i>borrowed</i> tail attempted to play the peacock,
+I should be justly robbed of my pilfered
+ornaments, and sent forth to strut without a tail
+for the balance of my time. I shall commence
+my book with what little I have learned of the
+history of my father, as all <i>great men</i> rest many,
+if not most, of their hopes on their noble ancestry.
+Mine was poor, but I hope honest, and even that
+is as much as many a man can say. But to my
+subject.</p>
+
+<p>My father's name was John Crockett, and he
+was of Irish descent. He was either born in
+Ireland or on a passage from that country to America
+across the Atlantic. He was by profession a
+farmer, and spent the early part of his life in the
+state of Pennsylvania. The name of my mother
+was Rebecca Hawkins. She was an American
+woman, born in the state of Maryland, between
+York and Baltimore. It is likely I may have
+heard where they were married, but if so, I have
+forgotten. It is, however, certain that they were,
+or else the public would never have been troubled
+with the history of David Crockett, their son.</p>
+
+<p>I have an imperfect recollection of the part
+which I have understood my father took in the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[15]</a></span>
+revolutionary war.  I personally know nothing
+about it, for it happened to be a little before my
+day; but from himself, and many others who
+were well acquainted with its troubles and afflictions,
+I have learned that he was a soldier in the
+revolutionary war, and took part in that bloody
+struggle. He fought, according to my information,
+in the battle at Kings Mountain against the British
+and tories, and in some other engagements of
+which my remembrance is too imperfect to enable
+me to speak with any certainty. At some time,
+though I cannot say certainly when, my father, as
+I have understood, lived in Lincoln county, in the
+state of North Carolina. How long, I don't know.
+But when he removed from there, he settled in
+that district of country which is now embraced in
+the east division of Tennessee, though it was not
+then erected into a state.</p>
+
+<p>He settled there under dangerous circumstances,
+both to himself and his family, as the country
+was full of Indians, who were at that time very
+troublesome. By the Creeks, my grandfather and
+grandmother Crockett were both murdered, in
+their own house, and on the very spot of ground
+where Rogersville, in Hawkins county, now stands.
+At the same time, the Indians wounded Joseph
+Crockett, a brother to my father, by a ball, which<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[16]</a></span>
+broke his arm; and took James a prisoner, who
+was still a younger brother than Joseph, and who,
+from natural defects, was less able to make his escape,
+as he was both deaf and dumb. He remained
+with them for seventeen years and nine months,
+when he was discovered and recollected by my
+father and his eldest brother, William Crockett;
+and was purchased by them from an Indian
+trader, at a price which I do not now remember;
+but so it was, that he was delivered up to them,
+and they returned him to his relatives. He now
+lives in Cumberland county, in the state of Kentucky,
+though I have not seen him for many
+years.</p>
+
+<p>My father and mother had six sons and three
+daughters. I was the fifth son. What a pity I
+hadn't been the seventh! For then I might have
+been, by <i>common consent</i>, called <i>doctor</i>, as a
+heap of people get to be great men. But, like
+many of them, I stood no chance to become great
+in any other way than by accident. As my father
+was very poor, and living as he did <i>far back in
+the back woods</i>, he had neither the means nor the
+opportunity to give me, or any of the rest of his
+children, any learning.</p>
+
+<p>But before I get on the subject of my own troubles,
+and a great many very funny things that<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[17]</a></span>
+have happened to me, like all other historians and
+biographers, I should not only inform the public
+that I was born, myself, as well as other folks, but
+that this important event took place, according to
+the best information I have received on the subject,
+on the 17th of August, in the year 1786;
+whether by day or night, I believe I never heard,
+but if I did I, have forgotten. I suppose, however,
+it is not very material to my present purpose, nor
+to the world, as the more important fact is well
+attested, that I was born; and, indeed, it might be
+inferred, from my present size and appearance, that
+I was pretty <i>well born</i>, though I have never yet
+attached myself to that numerous and worthy
+society.</p>
+
+<p>At that time my father lived at the mouth of
+Lime Stone, on the Nola-chucky river; and for
+the purpose not only of showing what sort of a
+man I now am, but also to show how soon I began
+to be a <i>sort of a little man</i>, I have endeavoured
+to take the <i>back track</i> of life, in order to fix on
+the first thing that I can remember. But even
+then, as now, so many things were happening,
+that as Major Jack Downing would say, they are all
+in "a pretty considerable of a snarl," and I find it
+"kinder hard" to fix on that thing, among them
+all, which really happened first. But I think it<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[18]</a></span>
+likely, I have hit on the outside line of my recollection;
+as one thing happened at which I was so
+badly scared, that it seems to me I could not have
+forgotten it, if it had happened a little time only
+after I was born. Therefore it furnishes me with
+no certain evidence of my age at the time; but I
+know one thing very well, and that is, that when
+it happened, I had no knowledge of the use of
+breeches, for I had never had any nor worn any.</p>
+
+<p>But the circumstance was this: My four elder
+brothers, and a well-grown boy of about fifteen
+years old, by the name of Campbell, and myself,
+were all playing on the river's side; when all the
+rest of them got into my father's canoe, and put
+out to amuse themselves on the water, leaving me
+on the shore alone.</p>
+
+<p>Just a little distance below them, there was a
+fall in the river, which went slap-right straight
+down. My brothers, though they were little fellows,
+had been used to paddling the canoe, and
+could have carried it safely anywhere about there;
+but this fellow Campbell wouldn't let them
+have the paddle, but, fool like, undertook to manage
+it himself. I reckon he had never seen a
+water craft before; and it went just any way but
+the way he wanted it. There he paddled, and
+paddled, and paddled&mdash;all the while going wrong,&mdash;until,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[19]</a></span>&mdash;in
+a short time, here they were all going,
+straight forward, stern foremost, right plump to
+the falls; and if they had only had a fair shake,
+they would have gone over as slick as a whistle.
+It was'ent this, though, that scared me; for I was
+so infernal mad that they had left me on the shore,
+that I had as soon have seen them all go over the
+falls a bit, as any other way. But their danger
+was seen by a man by the name of Kendall, but I'll
+be shot if it was Amos; for I believe I would
+know him yet if I was to see him. This man
+Kendall was working in a field on the bank, and
+knowing there was no time to lose, he started full
+tilt, and here he come like a cane brake afire;
+and as he ran, he threw off his coat, and then his
+jacket, and then his shirt, for I know when he got
+to the water he had nothing on but his breeches.
+But seeing him in such a hurry, and tearing off
+his clothes as he went, I had no doubt but that the
+devil or something else was after him&mdash;and close
+on him, too&mdash;as he was running within an inch of
+his life. This alarmed me, and I screamed out
+like a young painter. But Kendall didn't stop
+for this. He went ahead with all might, and as
+full bent on saving the boys, as Amos was on
+moving the deposites. When he came to the water
+he plunged in, and where it was too deep to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[20]</a></span>
+wade he would swim, and where it was shallow
+enough he went bolting on; and by such exertion
+as I never saw at any other time in my life,
+he reached the canoe, when it was within twenty
+or thirty feet of the falls; and so great was the
+suck, and so swift the current, that poor Kendall
+had a hard time of it to stop them at last,
+as Amos will to stop the mouths of the people
+about his stockjobbing. But he hung on to the
+canoe, till he got it stop'd, and then draw'd it
+out of danger. When they got out, I found the
+boys were more scared than I had been, and the
+only thing that comforted me was, the belief
+that it was a punishment on them for leaving
+me on shore.</p>
+
+<p>Shortly after this, my father removed, and
+settled in the same county, about ten miles above
+Greenville.</p>
+
+<p>There another circumstance happened, which
+made a lasting impression on my memory,
+though I was but a small child. Joseph Hawkins,
+who was a brother to my mother, was
+in the woods hunting for deer. He was passing
+near a thicket of brush, in which one of our
+neighbours was gathering some grapes, as it was
+in the fall of the year, and the grape season.
+The body of the man was hid by the brush,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[21]</a></span>
+and it was only as he would raise his hand to
+pull the bunches, that any part of him could be
+seen. It was a likely place for deer; and my
+uncle, having no suspicion that it was any human
+being, but supposing the raising of the hand to
+be the occasional twitch of a deer's ear, fired at
+the lump, and as the devil would have it, unfortunately
+shot the man through the body. I
+saw my father draw a silk handkerchief through
+the bullet hole, and entirely through his body;
+yet after a while he got well, as little as any one
+would have thought it. What become of him,
+or whether he is dead or alive, I don't know;
+but I reckon he did'ent fancy the business of gathering
+grapes in an out-of-the-way thicket soon
+again.</p>
+
+<p>The next move my father made was to the
+mouth of Cove creek, where he and a man by the
+name of Thomas Galbreath undertook to build a
+mill in partnership. They went on very well
+with their work until it was nigh done, when
+there came the second epistle to Noah's fresh, and
+away went their mill, shot, lock, and barrel. I
+remember the water rose so high, that it got up
+into the house we lived in, and my father moved
+us out of it, to keep us from being drowned. I
+was now about seven or eight years old, and have<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[22]</a></span>
+a pretty distinct recollection of every thing that
+was going on. From his bad luck in that business,
+and being ready to wash out from mill
+building, my father again removed, and this time
+settled in Jefferson county, now in the state of
+Tennessee; where he opened a tavern on the road
+from Abbingdon to Knoxville.</p>
+
+<p>His tavern was on a small scale, as he was poor;
+and the principal accommodations which he kept,
+were for the waggoners who travelled the road.
+Here I remained with him until I was twelve
+years old; and about that time, you may guess, if
+you belong to Yankee land, or reckon, if like me
+you belong to the back-woods, that I began to
+make up my acquaintance with hard times, and a
+plenty of them.</p>
+
+<p>An old Dutchman, by the name of Jacob Siler,
+who was moving from Knox county to Rockbridge,
+in the state of Virginia, in passing, made a
+stop at my father's house. He had a large stock
+of cattle, that he was carrying on with him; and I
+suppose made some proposition to my father to
+hire some one to assist him.</p>
+
+<p>Being hard run every way, and having no
+thought, as I believe, that I was cut out for a
+Congressman or the like, young as I was, and as
+little as I knew about travelling, or being from<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[23]</a></span>
+home, he hired me to the old Dutchman, to go
+four hundred miles on foot, with a perfect stranger
+that I never had seen until the evening before. I
+set out with a heavy heart, it is true, but I went
+ahead, until we arrived at the place, which was
+three miles from what is called the Natural Bridge,
+and made a stop at the house of a Mr. Hartley,
+who was father-in-law to Mr. Siler, who had
+hired me. My Dutch master was very kind to
+me, and gave me five or six dollars, being pleased,
+as he said, with my services.</p>
+
+<p>This, however, I think was a bait for me, as he
+persuaded me to stay with him, and not return
+any more to my father. I had been taught so
+many lessons of obedience by my father, that I
+at first supposed I was bound to obey this man,
+or at least I was afraid openly to disobey him; and
+I therefore staid with him, and tried to put on a
+look of perfect contentment until I got the family
+all to believe I was fully satisfied. I had been
+there about four or five weeks, when one day myself
+and two other boys were playing on the road-side,
+some distance from the house. There came
+along three waggons. One belonged to an old
+man by the name of Dunn, and the others to two
+of his sons. They had each of them a good team,
+and were all bound for Knoxville. They had been<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[24]</a></span>
+in the habit of stopping at my father's as they
+passed the road, and I knew them. I made myself
+known to the old gentleman, and informed
+him of my situation; I expressed a wish to get
+back to my father and mother, if they could fix
+any plan for me to do so. They told me that
+they would stay that night at a tavern seven
+miles from there, and that if I could get to them
+before day the next morning, they would take me
+home; and if I was pursued, they would protect
+me. This was a Sunday evening; I went back
+to the good old Dutchman's house, and as good
+fortune would have it, he and the family were out
+on a visit. I gathered my clothes, and what little
+money I had, and put them all together under the
+head of my bed. I went to bed early that night,
+but sleep seemed to be a stranger to me. For
+though I was a wild boy, yet I dearly loved my
+father and mother, and their images appeared to
+be so deeply fixed in my mind, that I could not
+sleep for thinking of them. And then the fear
+that when I should attempt to go out, I should be
+discovered and called to a halt, filled me with
+anxiety; and between my childish love of home,
+on the one hand, and the fears of which I have
+spoken, on the other, I felt mighty queer.</p>
+
+<p>But so it was, about three hours before day in<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[25]</a></span>
+the morning I got up to make my start. When I
+got out, I found it was snowing fast, and that the
+snow was then on the ground about eight inches
+deep. I had not even the advantage of moonlight,
+and the whole sky was hid by the falling snow,
+so that I had to guess at my way to the big road,
+which was about a half mile from the house.
+I however pushed ahead and soon got to it, and
+then pursued it, in the direction to the waggons.</p>
+
+<p>I could not have pursued the road if I had not
+guided myself by the opening it made between
+the timber, as the snow was too deep to leave any
+part of it to be known by either seeing or feeling.</p>
+
+<p>Before I overtook the waggons, the earth was
+covered about as deep as my knees; and my
+tracks filled so briskly after me, that by daylight,
+my Dutch master could have seen no trace which
+I left.</p>
+
+<p>I got to the place about an hour before day. I
+found the waggoners already stirring, and engaged
+in feeding and preparing their horses for a start.
+Mr. Dunn took me in and treated me with great
+kindness. My heart was more deeply impressed
+by meeting with such a friend, and "at such a
+time," than by wading the snow-storm by night,
+or all the other sufferings which my mind had
+endured. I warmed myself by the fire, for I was<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[26]</a></span>
+very cold, and after an early breakfast, we set out
+on our journey. The thoughts of home now began
+to take the entire possession of my mind, and
+I almost numbered the sluggish turns of the
+wheels, and much more certainly the miles of our
+travel, which appeared to me to count mighty
+slow. I continued with my kind protectors,
+until we got to the house of a Mr. John Cole, on
+Roanoke, when my impatience became so great,
+that I determined to set out on foot and go ahead
+by myself, as I could travel twice as fast in that
+way as the waggons could.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Dunn seemed very sorry to part with me,
+and used many arguments to prevent me from
+leaving him. But home, poor as it was, again
+rushed on my memory, and it seemed ten times
+as dear to me as it ever had before. The reason
+was, that my parents were there, and all that I
+had been accustomed to in the hours of childhood
+and infancy was there; and there my anxious
+little heart panted also to be. We remained at
+Mr. Coles that night, and early in the morning I
+felt that I couldn't stay; so, taking leave of my
+friends the waggoners, I went forward on foot, until
+I was fortunately overtaken by a gentleman, who
+was returning from market, to which he had been
+with a drove of horses. He had a led horse, with<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[27]</a></span>
+a bridle and saddle on him, and he kindly offered
+to let me get on his horse and ride him. I did so,
+and was glad of the chance, for I was tired, and
+was, moreover, near the first crossing of Roanoke,
+which I would have been compelled to wade,
+cold as the water was, if I had not fortunately met
+this good man. I travelled with him in this way,
+without any thing turning up worth recording,
+until we got within fifteen miles of my father's
+house. There we parted, and he went on to
+Kentucky and I trudged on homeward, which place
+I reached that evening. The name of this kind
+gentleman I have entirely forgotten, and I am
+sorry for it; for it deserves a high place in my
+little book. A remembrance of his kindness to a
+little straggling boy, and a stranger to him, has
+however a resting place in my heart, and there it
+will remain as long as I live.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[28]</a></span></p>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[29]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+<h2>CHAPTER II.</h2>
+
+
+<p>Having gotten home, as I have just related, I
+remained with my father until the next fall, at
+which time he took it into his head to send me
+to a little country school, which was kept in the
+neighbourhood by a man whose name was Benjamin
+Kitchen; though I believe he was no way
+connected with the cabinet. I went four days,
+and had just began to learn my letters a little,
+when I had an unfortunate falling out with one
+of the scholars,&mdash;a boy much larger and older
+than myself. I knew well enough that though
+the school-house might do for a still hunt, it
+wouldn't do for <i>a drive</i>, and so I concluded to
+wait until I could get him out, and then I was
+determined to give him salt and vinegar. I waited
+till in the evening, and when the larger scholars
+were spelling, I slip'd out, and going some distance
+along his road, I lay by the way-side in the
+bushes, waiting for him to come along. After a
+while he and his company came on sure enough,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[30]</a></span>
+and I pitched out from the bushes and set on
+him like a wild cat. I scratched his face all to
+a flitter jig, and soon made him cry out for quarters
+in good earnest. The fight being over, I
+went on home, and the next morning was started
+again to school; but do you think I went?
+No, indeed. I was very clear of it; for I expected
+the master would lick me up, as bad as I
+had the boy. So, instead of going to the school-house,
+I laid out in the woods all day until in
+the evening the scholars were dismissed, and my
+brothers, who were also going to school, came
+along, returning home. I wanted to conceal this
+whole business from my father, and I therefore
+persuaded them not to tell on me, which they
+agreed to.</p>
+
+<p>Things went on in this way for several days; I
+starting with them to school in the morning, and
+returning with them in the evening, but lying out
+in the woods all day. At last, however, the master
+wrote a note to my father, inquiring why I
+was not sent to school. When he read this note,
+he called me up, and I knew very well that I was
+in a devil of a hobble, for my father had been
+taking a few <i>horns</i>, and was in a good condition to
+make the fur fly. He called on me to know why
+I had not been at school? I told him I was<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[31]</a></span>
+afraid to go, and that the master would whip me;
+for I knew quite well if I was turned over to this
+old Kitchen, I should be cooked up to a cracklin,
+in little or no time. But I soon found that I was
+not to expect a much better fate at home; for
+my father told me, in a very angry manner,
+that he would whip me an eternal sight worse
+than the master, if I didn't start immediately to
+the school. I tried again to beg off; but nothing
+would do, but to go to the school. Finding me
+rather too slow about starting, he gathered about a
+two year old hickory, and broke after me. I put
+out with all my might, and soon we were both up
+to the top of our speed. We had a tolerable tough
+race for about a mile; but mind me, not on the
+school-house road, for I was trying to get as far
+the t'other way as possible. And I yet believe, if
+my father and the schoolmaster could both have
+levied on me about that time, I should never have
+been called on to sit in the councils of the nation,
+for I think they would have used me up.
+But fortunately for me, about this time, I saw just
+before me a hill, over which I made headway,
+like a young steamboat. As soon as I had passed
+over it, I turned to one side, and hid myself in the
+bushes. Here I waited until the old gentleman
+passed by, puffing and blowing, as tho' his steam<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[32]</a></span>
+was high enough to burst his boilers. I waited
+until he gave up the hunt, and passed back again:
+I then cut out, and went to the house of an acquaintance
+a few miles off, who was just about to
+start with a drove. His name was Jesse Cheek,
+and I hired myself to go with him, determining
+not to return home, as home and the school-house
+had both become too hot for me. I had an elder
+brother, who also hired to go with the same drove.
+We set out and went on through Abbingdon, and
+the county seat of Withe county, in the state of
+Virginia; and then through Lynchburgh, by
+Orange court-house, and Charlottesville, passing
+through what was called Chester Gap, on to a
+town called Front Royal, where my employer sold
+out his drove to a man by the name of Vanmetre;
+and I was started homeward again, in company
+with a brother of the first owner of the drove,
+with one horse between us; having left my brother
+to come on with the balance of the company.</p>
+
+<p>I traveled on with my new comrade about three
+days' journey; but much to his discredit, as I then
+thought, and still think, he took care all the time
+to ride, but never to tie; at last I told him to go
+ahead, and I would come when I got ready. He
+gave me four dollars to bear my expenses upwards<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[33]</a></span>
+of four hundred miles, and then cut out and
+left me.</p>
+
+<p>I purchased some provisions, and went on
+slowly, until at length I fell in with a waggoner,
+with whom I was disposed to scrape up a hasty
+acquaintance.  I inquired where he lived, and
+where he was going, and all about his affairs. He
+informed me that he lived in Greenville, Tennessee,
+and was on his way to a place called Gerardstown,
+fifteen miles below Winchester. He also said,
+that after he should make his journey to that
+place, he would immediately return to Tennessee.
+His name was Adam Myers, and a jolly good fellow
+he seemed to be. On a little reflection, I determined
+to turn back and go with him, which I
+did; and we journeyed on slowly as waggons commonly
+do, but merrily enough. I often thought
+of home, and, indeed, wished bad enough to be
+there; but, when I thought of the school-house,
+and Kitchen, my master, and the race with my
+father, and the big hickory he carried, and of the
+fierceness of the storm of wrath that I had left
+him in, I was afraid to venture back; for I knew
+my father's nature so well, that I was certain his
+anger would hang on to him like a turkle does to a
+fisherman's toe, and that, if I went back in a hurry,
+he would give me the devil in three or four ways<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[34]</a></span>
+But I and the waggoner had traveled two days,
+when we met my brother, who, I before stated, I
+had left behind when the drove was sold out.
+He persuaded me to go home, but I refused. He
+pressed me hard, and brought up a great many
+mighty strong arguments to induce me to turn
+back again. He pictured the pleasure of meeting
+my mother, and my sisters, who all loved me
+dearly, and told me what uneasiness they had already
+suffered about me. I could not help shedding
+tears, which I did not often do, and my affections
+all pointed back to those dearest friends, and as I
+thought, nearly the only ones I had in the world;
+but then the promised whipping&mdash;that was the
+thing. It came right slap down on every thought
+of home; and I finally determined that make or
+break, hit or miss, I would just hang on to my
+journey, and go ahead with the waggoner. My
+brother was much grieved at our parting, but he
+went his way, and so did I. We went on until
+at last we got to Gerardstown, where the waggoner
+tried to get a back load, but he could not without
+going to Alexandria. He engaged to go there,
+and I concluded that I would wait until he returned.
+I set in to work for a man by the name
+of John Gray, at twenty-five cents per day. My
+labour, however, was light, such as ploughing in<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[35]</a></span>
+some small grain, in which I succeeded in pleasing
+the old man very well. I continued working
+for him until the waggoner got back, and for a
+good long time afterwards, as he continued to run
+his team back and forward, hauling to and from
+Baltimore. In the next spring, from the proceeds
+of my daily labour, small as it was, I was able to
+get me some decent clothes, and concluded I
+would make a trip with the waggoner to Baltimore,
+and see what sort of a place that was, and
+what sort of folks lived there. I gave him the
+balance of what money I had for safe keeping,
+which, as well as I recollect, was about seven dollars.
+We got on well enough until we came near
+Ellicott's Mills. Our load consisted of flour, in
+barrels. Here I got into the waggon for the purpose
+of changing my clothing, not thinking that I
+was in any danger; but while I was in there we
+were met by some wheel-barrow men, who were
+working on the road, and the horses took a scare
+and away they went, like they had seen a ghost.
+They made a sudden wheel around, and broke the
+waggon tongue slap, short off, as a pipe-stem; and
+snap went both of the axletrees at the same time,
+and of all devlish flouncing about of flour barrels
+that ever was seen, I reckon this took the beat.
+Even <i>a rat</i> would have stood a bad chance in a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[36]</a></span>
+<i>straight</i> race among them, and not much better
+in a crooked one; for he would have been in a
+good way to be ground up as fine as ginger by
+their rolling over him. But this proved to me,
+that if a fellow is born to be hung, he will never
+be drowned; and, further, that if he is born for a
+seat in Congress, even flour barrels can't make a
+mash of him. All these dangers I escaped unhurt,
+though, like most of the office-holders of these
+times, for a while I was afraid to say my soul was
+my own; for I didn't know how soon I should
+be knocked into a cocked hat, and get my walking
+papers for another country.</p>
+
+<p>We put our load into another waggon, and hauled
+ours to a workman's shop in Baltimore, having
+delivered the flour, and there we intended to remain
+two or three days, which time was necessary
+to repair the runaway waggon. While I was
+there, I went, one day, down to the wharf, and
+was much delighted to see the big ships, and their
+sails all flying; for I had never seen any such
+things before, and, indeed, I didn't believe there
+were any such things in all nature. After a short
+time my curiosity induced me to step aboard of
+one, where I was met by the captain, who asked
+me if I didn't wish to take a voyage to London? I
+told him I did, for by this time I had become<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[37]</a></span>
+pretty well weaned from home, and I cared but
+little where I was, or where I went, or what become
+of me. He said he wanted just such a boy
+as I was, which I was glad to hear. I told him I
+would go and get my clothes, and go with him.
+He enquired about my parents, where they lived,
+and all about them. I let him know that they
+lived in Tennessee, many hundred miles off. We
+soon agreed about my intended voyage, and I went
+back to my friend, the waggoner, and informed
+him that I was going to London, and wanted my
+money and my clothes. He refused to let me
+have either, and swore that he would confine me,
+and take me back to Tennessee. I took it to heart
+very much, but he kept so close and constant a
+watch over me, that I found it impossible to escape
+from him, until he had started homeward,
+and made several days' journey on the road. He
+was, during this time, very ill to me, and threatened
+me with his waggon whip on several occasions.
+At length I resolved to leave him at all hazards;
+and so, before day, one morning, I got my clothes
+out of his waggon, and cut out, on foot, without a
+farthing of money to bear my expenses. For all
+other friends having failed, I determined then to
+throw myself on Providence, and see how that
+would use me. I had gone, however, only a few<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[38]</a></span>
+miles when I came up with another waggoner, and
+such was my situation, that I felt more than ever
+the necessity of endeavouring to find a friend. I
+therefore concluded I would seek for one in him.
+He was going westwardly, and very kindly enquired
+of me where I was travelling? My youthful
+resolution, which had brooked almost every
+thing else, rather gave way at this enquiry; for it
+brought the loneliness of my situation, and every
+thing else that was calculated to oppress me, directly
+to view. My first answer to his question
+was in a sprinkle of tears, for if the world had
+been given to me, I could not, at that moment,
+have helped crying. As soon as the storm of
+feeling was over, I told him how I had been treated
+by the waggoner but a little before, who kept what
+little money I had, and left me without a copper
+to buy even a morsel of food.</p>
+
+<p>He became exceedingly angry, and swore that
+he would make the other waggoner give up my
+money, pronouncing him a scoundrel, and many
+other hard names. I told him I was afraid to see
+him, for he had threatened me with his waggon
+whip, and I believed he would injure me. But
+my new friend was a very large, stout-looking
+man, and as resolute as a tiger. He bid me
+not to be afraid, still swearing he would have<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[39]</a></span>
+my money, or whip it out of the wretch who
+had it.</p>
+
+<p>We turned and went back about two miles,
+when we reached the place where he was. I went
+reluctantly; but I depended on my friend for protection.
+When we got there, I had but little to
+say; but approaching the waggoner, my friend
+said to him, "You damn'd rascal, you have treated
+this boy badly." To which he replied, it was my
+fault. He was then asked, if he did not get
+seven dollars of my money, which he confessed.
+It was then demanded of him; but he declared
+most solemnly, that he had not that amount in
+the world; that he had spent my money, and intended
+paying it back to me when we got to Tennessee.
+I then felt reconciled, and persuaded my
+friend to let him alone, and we returned to his
+waggon, geared up, and started. His name I shall
+never forget while my memory lasts; it was
+Henry Myers. He lived in Pennsylvania, and
+I found him what he professed to be, a faithful
+friend and a clever fellow.</p>
+
+<p>We traveled together for several days, but at
+length I concluded to endeavour to make my way
+homeward; and for that purpose set out again on
+foot, and alone. But one thing I must not omit.
+The last night I staid with Mr. Myers, was at a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[40]</a></span>
+place where several other waggoners also staid.
+He told them, before we parted, that I was a poor
+little straggling boy, and how I had been treated;
+and that I was without money, though I had a
+long journey before me, through a land of strangers,
+where it was not even a wilderness.</p>
+
+<p>They were good enough to contribute a sort of
+money-purse, and presented me with three dollars.
+On this amount I travelled as far as Montgomery
+court-house, in the state of Virginia,
+where it gave out. I set in to work for a man by
+the name of James Caldwell, a month, for five
+dollars, which was about a shilling a day. When
+this time was out, I bound myself to a man by the
+name of Elijah Griffith, by trade a hatter, agreeing
+to work for him four years. I remained with
+him about eighteen months, when he found himself
+so involved in debt, that he broke up, and
+left the country. For this time I had received
+nothing, and was, of course, left without money,
+and with but very few clothes, and them very
+indifferent ones. I, however, set in again, and
+worked about as I could catch employment, until
+I got a little money, and some clothing; and once
+more cut out for home. When I reached New
+River, at the mouth of a small stream, called Little
+River, the white caps were flying so, that I couldn't<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[41]</a></span>
+get any body to attempt to put me across.
+I argued the case as well as I could, but they
+told me there was great danger of being capsized,
+and drowned, if I attempted to cross. I told them
+if I could get a canoe I would venture, caps or
+no caps. They tried to persuade me out of it;
+but finding they could not, they agreed I might
+take a canoe, and so I did, and put off. I tied
+my clothes to the rope of the canoe, to have them
+safe, whatever might happen. But I found it a
+mighty ticklish business, I tell you. When I got
+out fairly on the river, I would have given the
+world, if it had belonged to me, to have been
+back on shore. But there was no time to lose
+now, so I just determined to do the best I could,
+and the devil take the hindmost. I turned the
+canoe across the waves, to do which, I had to turn
+it nearly up the river, as the wind came from that
+way; and I went about two miles before I could
+land. When I struck land, my canoe was about
+half full of water, and I was as wet as a drowned
+rat. But I was so much rejoiced, that I scarcely
+felt the cold, though my clothes were frozen on
+me; and in this situation, I had to go above three
+miles, before I could find any house, or fire to
+warm at. I, however, made out to get to one at
+last, and then I thought I would warm the inside<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[42]</a></span>
+a little, as well as the outside, that there might be
+no grumbling.</p>
+
+<p>So I took "a leetle of the creater,"&mdash;that warmer
+of the cold, and cooler of the hot,&mdash;and it made me
+feel so good that I concluded it was like the negro's
+rabbit, "good any way." I passed on until I arrived
+in Sullivan county, in the state of Tennessee,
+and there I met with my brother, who had gone
+with me when I started from home with the cattle
+drove.</p>
+
+<p>I staid with him a few weeks, and then went on
+to my father's, which place I reached late in the
+evening. Several waggons were there for the
+night, and considerable company about the house.
+I enquired if I could stay all night, for I did not
+intend to make myself known, until I saw whether
+any of the family would find me out. I was told
+that I could stay, and went in, but had mighty
+little to say to any body. I had been gone so
+long, and had grown so much, that the family did
+not at first know me. And another, and perhaps a
+stronger reason was, they had no thought or expectation
+of me, for they all had long given me up
+for finally lost.</p>
+
+<p>After a while, we were all called to supper. I
+went with the rest. We had sat down to the table
+and begun to eat, when my eldest sister recollected<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[43]</a></span>
+me: she sprung up, ran and seized me around the
+neck, and exclaimed, "Here is my lost brother."</p>
+
+<p>My feelings at this time it would be vain and
+foolish for me to attempt to describe. I had often
+thought I felt before, and I suppose I had, but sure
+I am, I never had felt as I then did. The joy of
+my sisters and my mother, and, indeed, of all the
+family, was such that it humbled me, and made
+me sorry that I hadn't submitted to a hundred
+whippings, sooner than cause so much affliction as
+they had suffered on my account. I found the
+family had never heard a word of me from the
+time my brother left me. I was now almost <i>fifteen</i>
+years old; and my increased age and size,
+together with the joy of my father, occasioned by
+my unexpected return, I was sure would secure me
+against my long dreaded whipping; and so they
+did. But it will be a source of astonishment to
+many, who reflect that I am now a member of the
+American Congress,&mdash;the most enlightened body
+of men in the world,&mdash;that at so advanced an age,
+the age of fifteen, I did not know the first letter in
+the book.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[44]</a></span></p>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[45]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+<h2>CHAPTER III.</h2>
+
+
+<p>I had remained for some short time at home
+with my father, when he informed me that he
+owed a man, whose name was Abraham Wilson,
+the sum of thirty-six dollars, and that if I would
+set in and work out the note, so as to lift it for
+him, he would discharge me from his service, and
+I might go free. I agreed to do this, and went
+immediately to the man who held my father's
+note, and contracted with him to work six months
+for it. I set in, and worked with all my might,
+not losing a single day in the six months. When
+my time was out, I got my father's note, and then
+declined working with the man any longer, though
+he wanted to hire me mighty bad. The reason
+was, it was a place where a heap of bad company
+met to drink and gamble, and I wanted to get
+away from them, for I know'd very well if I staid
+there, I should get a bad name, as nobody could
+be respectable that would live there. I therefore
+returned to my father, and gave him up his paper,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[46]</a></span>
+which seemed to please him mightily, for though
+he was poor, he was an honest man, and always
+tried mighty hard to pay off his debts.</p>
+
+<p>I next went to the house of an honest old Quaker,
+by the name of John Kennedy, who had removed
+from North Carolina, and proposed to
+hire myself to him, at two shillings a day. He
+agreed to take me a week on trial; at the end of
+which he appeared pleased with my work, and informed
+me that he held a note on my father for
+forty dollars, and that he would give me that note
+if I would work for him six months. I was certain
+enough that I should never get any part of the
+note; but then I remembered it was my father
+that owed it, and I concluded it was my duty as
+a child to help him along, and ease his lot as much
+as I could. I told the Quaker I would take him
+up at his offer, and immediately went to work.
+I never visited my father's house during the
+whole time of this engagement, though he lived
+only fifteen miles off. But when it was finished,
+and I had got the note, I borrowed one of my employer's
+horses, and, on a Sunday evening, went to
+pay my parents a visit. Some time after I got
+there, I pulled out the note and handed it to my
+father, who supposed Mr. Kennedy had sent it for
+collection.  The old man looked mighty sorry,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[47]</a></span>
+and said to me he had not the money to pay it,
+and didn't know what he should do. I then told
+him I had paid it for him, and it was then his own;
+that it was not presented for collection, but as a
+present from me. At this, he shed a heap of
+tears; and as soon as he got a little over it, he said
+he was sorry he couldn't give me any thing, but
+he was not able, he was too poor.</p>
+
+<p>The next day, I went back to my old friend,
+the Quaker, and set in to work for him for some
+clothes; for I had now worked a year without
+getting any money at all, and my clothes were
+nearly all worn out, and what few I had left
+were mighty indifferent. I worked in this way
+for about two months; and in that time a young
+woman from North Carolina, who was the Quaker's
+niece, came on a visit to his house. And
+now I am just getting on a part of my history that
+I know I never can forget. For though I have
+heard people talk about hard loving, yet I reckon
+no poor devil in this world was ever cursed with
+such hard love as mine has always been, when it
+came on me. I soon found myself head over
+heels in love with this girl, whose name the public
+could make no use of; and I thought that if all
+the hills about there were pure chink, and all belonged<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[48]</a></span>
+to me, I would give them if I could just
+talk to her as I wanted to; but I was afraid to
+begin, for when I would think of saying any thing
+to her, my heart would begin to flutter like a duck
+in a puddle; and if I tried to outdo it and speak, it
+would get right smack up in my throat, and choak
+me like a cold potatoe. It bore on my mind in
+this way, till at last I concluded I must die if I didn't
+broach the subject; and so I determined to begin
+and hang on a trying to speak, till my heart would
+get out of my throat one way or t'other. And so
+one day at it I went, and after several trials I
+could say a little. I told her how well I loved
+her; that she was the darling object of my soul
+and body; and I must have her, or else I should
+pine down to nothing, and just die away with the
+consumption.</p>
+
+<p>I found my talk was not disagreeable to her;
+but she was an honest girl, and didn't want to
+deceive nobody. She told me she was engaged
+to her cousin, a son of the old Quaker. This news
+was worse to me than war, pestilence, or famine;
+but still I knowed I could not help myself. I
+saw quick enough my cake was dough, and I
+tried to cool off as fast as possible; but I had
+hardly safety pipes enough, as my love was so hot<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[49]</a></span>
+as mighty nigh to burst my boilers. But I didn't
+press my claims any more, seeing there was no
+chance to do any thing.</p>
+
+<p>I began now to think, that all my misfortunes
+growed out of my want of learning. I had never
+been to school but four days, as the reader has
+already seen, and did not yet know a letter.</p>
+
+<p>I thought I would try to go to school some; and
+as the Quaker had a married son, who was living
+about a mile and a half from him, and keeping a
+school, I proposed to him that I would go to
+school four days in the week, and work for him
+the other two, to pay my board and schooling.
+He agreed I might come on those terms; and so at
+it I went, learning and working back and forwards,
+until I had been with him nigh on to six months.
+In this time I learned to read a little in my primer,
+to write my own name, and to cypher some in
+the three first rules in figures. And this was all
+the schooling I ever had in my life, up to this
+day. I should have continued longer, if it hadn't
+been that I concluded I couldn't do any longer
+without a wife; and so I cut out to hunt me one.</p>
+
+<p>I found a family of very pretty little girls that
+I had known when very young. They had lived
+in the same neighborhood with me, and I had
+thought very well of them. I made an offer to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[50]</a></span>
+one of them, whose name is nobody's business,
+no more than the Quaker girl's was, and I found
+she took it very well. I still continued paying
+my respects to her, until I got to love her as bad
+as I had the Quaker's niece; and I would have
+agreed to fight a whole regiment of wild cats if
+she would only have said she would have me.
+Several months passed in this way, during all of
+which time she continued very kind and friendly.
+At last, the son of the old Quaker and my first
+girl had concluded to bring their matter to a
+close, and my little queen and myself were called
+on to wait on them. We went on the day, and
+performed our duty as attendants. This made me
+worse than ever; and after it was over, I pressed
+my claim very hard on her, but she would still
+give me a sort of an evasive answer. However, I
+gave her mighty little peace, till she told me at
+last she would have me. I thought this was glorification
+enough, even without spectacles. I was
+then about eighteen years old. We fixed the time
+to be married; and I thought if that day come, I
+should be the happiest man in the created world,
+or in the moon, or any where else.</p>
+
+<p>I had by this time got to be mighty fond of
+the rifle, and had bought a capital one. I most
+generally carried her with me whereever I went,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[51]</a></span>
+and though I had got back to the old Quaker's to
+live, who was a very particular man, I would
+sometimes slip out and attend the shooting
+matches, where they shot for beef; I always
+tried, though, to keep it a secret from him. He
+had at the same time a bound boy living with
+him, who I had gotten into almost as great a
+notion of the girls as myself. He was about my
+own age, and was deeply smitten with the sister
+to my intended wife. I know'd it was in vain to
+try to get the leave of the old man for my young
+associate to go with me on any of my courting
+frolics; but I thought I could fix a plan to have
+him along, which would not injure the Quaker, as
+we had no notion that he should ever know it.
+We commonly slept up-stairs, and at the gable
+end of the house there was a window. So one
+Sunday, when the old man and his family were
+all gone to meeting, we went out and cut a long
+pole, and, taking it to the house, we set it up on
+end in the corner, reaching up the chimney as
+high as the window. After this we would go up-stairs
+to bed, and then putting on our Sunday
+clothes, would go out at the window, and climb
+down the pole, take a horse apiece, and ride about
+ten miles to where his sweetheart lived, and the
+girl I claimed as my wife. I was always mighty<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[52]</a></span>
+careful to be back before day, so as to escape
+being found out; and in this way I continued my
+attentions very closely until a few days before I
+was to be married, or at least thought I was,
+for I had no fear that any thing was about to go
+wrong.</p>
+
+<p>Just now I heard of a shooting-match in the
+neighbourhood, right between where I lived and
+my girl's house; and I determined to kill two birds
+with one stone,&mdash;to go to the shooting match first,
+and then to see her. I therefore made the Quaker
+believe I was going to hunt for deer, as they were
+pretty plenty about in those parts; but, instead of
+hunting them, I went straight on to the shooting-match,
+where I joined in with a partner, and we
+put in several shots for the beef. I was mighty
+lucky, and when the match was over I had won
+the whole beef. This was on a Saturday, and my
+success had put me in the finest humour in the
+world. So I sold my part of the beef for five
+dollars in the real grit, for I believe that was
+before bank-notes was invented; at least, I had
+never heard of any. I now started on to ask for
+my wife; for, though the next Thursday was our
+wedding day, I had never said a word to her parents
+about it. I had always dreaded the undertaking
+so bad, that I had put the evil hour off as<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[53]</a></span>
+long as possible; and, indeed, I calculated they
+knowed me so well, they wouldn't raise any objection
+to having me for their son-in-law. I had
+a great deal better opinion of myself, I found,
+than other people had of me; but I moved on
+with a light heart, and my five dollars jingling
+in my pocket, thinking all the time there was
+but few greater men in the world than myself.</p>
+
+<p>In this flow of good humour I went ahead, till
+I got within about two miles of the place, when I
+concluded I would stop awhile at the house of the
+girl's uncle; where I might enquire about the
+family, and so forth, and so on. I was indeed
+just about ready to consider her uncle, my uncle;
+and her affairs, my affairs. When I went in, tho',
+I found her sister there. I asked how all was at
+home? In a minute I found from her countenance
+something was wrong. She looked mortified, and
+didn't answer as quick as I thought she ought,
+being it was her <i>brother-in-law</i> talking to her.
+However, I asked her again. She then burst into
+tears, and told me her sister was going to deceive
+me; and that she was to be married to another
+man the next day. This was as sudden to me as
+a clap of thunder of a bright sunshiny day. It
+was the cap-stone of all the afflictions I had ever<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[54]</a></span>
+met with; and it seemed to me, that it was more
+than any human creature could endure. It struck
+me perfectly speechless for some time, and made
+me feel so weak, that I thought I should sink
+down. I however recovered from my shock after
+a little, and rose and started without any ceremony,
+or even bidding any body good-bye. The
+young woman followed me out to the gate, and
+entreated me to go on to her father's, and said she
+would go with me. She said the young man,
+who was going to marry her sister, had got his
+license, and had asked for her; but she assured
+me her father and mother both preferred me to
+him; and that she had no doubt but that, if I
+would go on, I could break off the match. But I
+found I could go no further. My heart was
+bruised, and my spirits were broken down; so I
+bid her farewell, and turned my lonesome and
+miserable steps back again homeward, concluding
+that I was only born for hardships, misery, and
+disappointment. I now began to think, that in
+making me, it was entirely forgotten to make my
+mate; that I was born odd, and should always
+remain so, and that nobody would have me.</p>
+
+<p>But all these reflections did not satisfy my
+mind, for I had no peace day nor night for several<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[55]</a></span>
+weeks. My appetite failed me, and I grew daily
+worse and worse. They all thought I was sick;
+and so I was. And it was the worst kind of sickness,&mdash;a
+sickness of the heart, and all the tender
+parts, produced by disappointed love.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[56]</a></span></p>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[57]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+<h2>CHAPTER IV.</h2>
+
+
+<p>I continued in this down-spirited situation
+for a good long time, until one day I took my
+rifle and started a hunting. While out, I made a
+call at the house of a Dutch widow, who had a
+daughter that was well enough as to smartness, but
+she was as ugly as a stone fence. She was, however,
+quite talkative, and soon begun to laugh at
+me about my disappointment.</p>
+
+<p>She seemed disposed, though, to comfort me as
+much as she could; and, for that purpose, told
+me to keep in good heart, that "there was as good
+fish in the sea as had ever been caught out of it."
+I doubted this very much; but whether or not, I
+was certain that she was not one of them, for she
+was so homely that it almost give me a pain in
+the eyes to look at her.</p>
+
+<p>But I couldn't help thinking, that she had intended
+what she had said as a banter for me to
+court her!!!&mdash;the last thing in creation I could<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[58]</a></span>
+have thought of doing. I felt little inclined to
+talk on the subject, it is true; but, to pass off the
+time, I told her I thought I was born odd, and
+that no fellow to me could be found. She protested
+against this, and said if I would come to
+their reaping, which was not far off, she would
+show me one of the prettiest little girls there I
+had ever seen. She added that the one who had
+deceived me was nothing to be compared with
+her. I didn't believe a word of all this, for I
+had thought that such a piece of flesh and blood
+as she was had never been manufactured, and never
+would again. I agreed with her, though, that the
+little varment had treated me so bad, that I ought
+to forget her, and yet I couldn't do it. I concluded
+the best way to accomplish it was to cut
+out again, and see if I could find any other that
+would answer me; and so I told the Dutch girl I
+would be at the reaping, and would bring as many
+as I could with me.</p>
+
+<p>I employed my time pretty generally in giving
+information of it, as far as I could, until the day
+came; and I then offered to work for my old
+friend, the Quaker, two days, if he would let his
+bound boy go with me one to the reaping. He
+refused, and reproved me pretty considerable
+roughly for my proposition; and said, if he was<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[59]</a></span>
+in my place he wouldn't go; that there would
+be a great deal of bad company there; and that I
+had been so good a boy, he would be sorry for me
+to get a bad name. But I knowed my promise to
+the Dutch girl, and I was resolved to fulfil it; so
+I shouldered my rifle, and started by myself.
+When I got to the place, I found a large company
+of men and women, and among them an old Irish
+woman, who had a great deal to say. I soon found
+out from my Dutch girl, that this old lady was the
+mother of the little girl she had promised me,
+though I had not yet seen her. She was in an out-house
+with some other youngsters, and had not
+yet made her appearance. Her mamma, however,
+was no way bashful. She came up to me, and
+began to praise my red cheeks, and said she had
+a sweetheart for me. I had no doubt she had
+been told what I come for, and all about it. In
+the evening I was introduced to her daughter, and
+I must confess, I was plaguy well pleased with
+her from the word go. She had a good countenance,
+and was very pretty, and I was full bent
+on making up an acquaintance with her.</p>
+
+<p>It was not long before the dancing commenced,
+and I asked her to join me in a reel. She very
+readily consented to do so; and after we had
+finished our dance, I took a seat alongside of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[60]</a></span>
+her, and entered into a talk. I found her very
+interesting; while I was setting by her, making
+as good a use of my time as I could, her mother
+came to us, and very jocularly called me her son-in-law.
+This rather confused me, but I looked on
+it as a joke of the old lady, and tried to turn it off
+as well as I could; but I took care to pay as
+much attention to her through the evening as I
+could. I went on the old saying, of salting the
+cow to catch the calf. I soon become so much
+pleased with this little girl, that I began to think
+the Dutch girl had told me the truth, when she
+said there was still good fish in the sea.</p>
+
+<p>We continued our frolic till near day, when
+we joined in some plays, calculated to amuse
+youngsters. I had not often spent a more agreeable
+night. In the morning, however, we all had to
+part; and I found my mind had become much better
+reconciled than it had been for a long time.
+I went home to the Quaker's, and made a bargain
+to work with his son for a low-priced horse. He
+was the first one I had ever owned, and I was to
+work six months for him. I had been engaged
+very closely five or six weeks, when this little
+girl run in my mind so, that I concluded I must
+go and see her, and find out what sort of people
+they were at home. I mounted my horse and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[61]</a></span>
+away I went to where she lived, and when I got
+there I found her father a very clever old man,
+and the old woman as talkative as ever. She
+wanted badly to find out all about me, and as I
+thought to see how I would do for her girl. I had
+not yet seen her about, and I began to feel some
+anxiety to know where she was.</p>
+
+<p>In a short time, however, my impatience was
+relieved, as she arrived at home from a meeting to
+which she had been. There was a young man
+with her, who I soon found was disposed to set up
+claim to her, as he was so attentive to her that I
+could hardly get to slip in a word edgeways. I
+began to think I was barking up the wrong tree
+again; but I was determined to stand up to my
+rack, fodder or no fodder.  And so, to know her
+mind a little on the subject, I began to talk about
+starting, as I knowed she would then show some
+sign, from which I could understand which way
+the wind blowed. It was then near night, and
+my distance was fifteen miles home. At this my
+little girl soon began to indicate to the other gentleman
+that his room would be the better part of
+his company. At length she left him, and came
+to me, and insisted mighty hard that I should not
+go that evening; and, indeed, from all her actions
+and the attempts she made to get rid of him, I saw<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[62]</a></span>
+that she preferred me all holler. But it wasn't
+long before I found trouble enough in another
+quarter. Her mother was deeply enlisted for my
+rival, and I had to fight against her influence as
+well as his. But the girl herself was the prize I
+was fighting for; and as she welcomed me, I was
+determined to lay siege to her, let what would
+happen. I commenced a close courtship, having
+cornered her from her old beau; while he set off,
+looking on, like a poor man at a country frolic,
+and all the time almost gritting his teeth with
+pure disappointment. But he didn't dare to attempt
+any thing more, for now I had gotten a
+start, and I looked at him every once in a while as
+fierce as a wild-cat. I staid with her until Monday
+morning, and then I put out for home.</p>
+
+<p>It was about two weeks after this that I was
+sent for to engage in a wolf hunt, where a great
+number of men were to meet, with their dogs and
+guns, and where the best sort of sport was expected.
+I went as large as life, but I had to hunt in strange
+woods, and in a part of the country which was very
+thinly inhabited. While I was out it clouded up,
+and I began to get scared; and in a little while I
+was so much so, that I didn't know which way
+home was, nor any thing about it. I set out the
+way I thought it was, but it turned out with me,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[63]</a></span>
+as it always does with a lost man, I was wrong,
+and took exactly the contrary direction from the
+right one. And for the information of young
+hunters, I will just say, in this place, that whenever
+a fellow gets bad lost, the way home is just
+the way he don't think it is. This rule will hit
+nine times out of ten. I went ahead, though, about
+six or seven miles, when I found night was coming
+on fast; but at this distressing time I saw a little
+woman streaking it along through the woods like all
+wrath, and so I cut on too, for I was determined
+I wouldn't lose sight of her that night any more.
+I run on till she saw me, and she stopped; for she
+was as glad to see me as I was to see her, as she
+was lost as well as me. When I came up to her,
+who should she be but my little girl, that I had
+been paying my respects to. She had been out
+hunting her father's horses, and had missed her
+way, and had no knowledge where she was, or
+how far it was to any house, or what way would
+take us there. She had been travelling all day,
+and was mighty tired; and I would have taken
+her up, and toated her, if it hadn't been that I
+wanted her just where I could see her all the
+time, for I thought she looked sweeter than sugar;
+and by this time I loved her almost well enough
+to eat her.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[64]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>At last I came to a path, that I know'd must go
+somewhere, and so we followed it, till we came to
+a house, at about dark. Here we staid all night. I
+set up all night courting; and in the morning
+we parted. She went to her home, from which
+we were distant about seven miles, and I to mine,
+which was ten miles off.</p>
+
+<p>I now turned in to work again; and it was
+about four weeks before I went back to see her. I
+continued to go occasionally, until I had worked
+long enough to pay for my horse, by putting in
+my gun with my work, to the man I had purchased
+from; and then I began to count whether
+I was to be deceived again or not. At our next
+meeting we set the day for our wedding; and I
+went to my father's, and made arrangements for an
+infair, and returned to ask her parents for her.
+When I got there, the old lady appeared to be
+mighty wrathy; and when I broached the subject,
+she looked at me as savage as a meat axe. The
+old man appeared quite willing, and treated me
+very clever. But I hadn't been there long, before
+the old woman as good as ordered me out of
+her house. I thought I would put her in mind of
+old times, and see how that would go with her. I
+told her she had called me her son-in-law before I
+had attempted to call her my mother-in-law<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[65]</a></span>
+and I thought she ought to cool off. But her
+Irish was up too high to do any thing with her,
+and so I quit trying. All I cared for was, to have
+her daughter on my side, which I knowed was
+the case then; but how soon some other fellow
+might knock my nose out of joint again, I couldn't
+tell. I however felt rather insulted at the old
+lady, and I thought I wouldn't get married in her
+house. And so I told her girl, that I would come
+the next Thursday, and bring a horse, bridle, and
+saddle for her, and she must be ready to go. Her
+mother declared I shouldn't have her; but I
+know'd I should, if somebody else didn't get her
+before Thursday. I then started, bidding them
+good day, and went by the house of a justice of the
+peace, who lived on the way to my father's, and
+made a bargain with him to marry me.</p>
+
+<p>When Thursday came, all necessary arrangements
+were made at my father's to receive my
+wife; and so I took my eldest brother and his
+wife, and another brother, and a single sister
+that I had, and two other young men with me,
+and cut out to her father's house to get her. We
+went on, until we got within two miles of the
+place, where we met a large company that had
+heard of the wedding, and were waiting. Some
+of that company went on with my brother and sister,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[66]</a></span>
+and the young man I had picked out to wait
+on me. When they got there, they found the old
+lady as wrathy as ever. However the old man
+filled their bottle, and the young men returned in
+a hurry. I then went on with my company, and
+when I arrived I never pretended to dismount from
+my horse, but rode up to the door, and asked the
+girl if she was ready; and she said she was. I
+then told her to light on the horse I was leading;
+and she did so. Her father, though, had gone out
+to the gate, and when I started he commenced
+persuading me to stay and marry there; that he
+was entirely willing to the match, and that his
+wife, like most women, had entirely too much
+tongue; but that I oughtn't to mind her. I told
+him if she would ask me to stay and marry at her
+house, I would do so. With that he sent for her,
+and after they had talked for some time out by
+themselves, she came to me and looked at me
+mighty good, and asked my pardon for what she
+had said, and invited me stay. She said it was the
+first child she had ever had to marry; and she
+couldn't bear to see her go off in that way; that
+if I would light, she would do the best she could
+for us. I couldn't stand every thing, and so I
+agreed, and we got down, and went in. I sent off
+then for my parson, and got married in a short<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[67]</a></span>
+time; for I was afraid to wait long, for fear of
+another defeat. We had as good treatment as
+could be expected; and that night all went on
+well. The next day we cut out for my father's,
+where we met a large company of people, that had
+been waiting a day and a night for our arrival. We
+passed the time quite merrily, until the company
+broke up; and having gotten my wife, I thought I
+was completely made up, and needed nothing
+more in the whole world. But I soon found this
+was all a mistake&mdash;for now having a wife, I
+wanted every thing else; and, worse than all, I had
+nothing to give for it.</p>
+
+<p>I remained a few days at my father's, and then
+went back to my new father-in-law's; where, to
+my surprise, I found my old Irish mother in the
+finest humour in the world.</p>
+
+<p>She gave us two likely cows and calves, which,
+though it was a small marriage-portion, was still
+better than I had expected, and, indeed, it was
+about all I ever got. I rented a small farm and
+cabin, and went to work; but I had much trouble
+to find out a plan to get any thing to put in my
+house. At this time, my good old friend the
+Quaker came forward to my assistance, and gave
+me an order to a store for fifteen dollars' worth of
+such things as my little wife might choose. With<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[68]</a></span>
+this, we fixed up pretty grand, as we thought, and
+allowed to get on very well. My wife had a good
+wheel, and knowed exactly how to use it. She
+was also a good weaver, as most of the Irish are,
+whether men or women; and being very industrious
+with her wheel, she had, in little or no time,
+a fine web of cloth, ready to make up; and she
+was good at that too, and at almost any thing else
+that a woman could do.</p>
+
+<p>We worked on for some years, renting ground,
+and paying high rent, until I found it wan't
+the thing it was cracked up to be; and that
+I couldn't make a fortune at it just at all. So I
+concluded to quit it, and cut out for some new
+country. In this time we had two sons, and I
+found I was better at increasing my family than
+my fortune. It was therefore the more necessary
+that I should hunt some better place to get along;
+and as I knowed I would have to move at some
+time, I thought it was better to do it before my
+family got too large, that I might have less to
+carry.</p>
+
+<p>The Duck and Elk river country was just beginning
+to settle, and I determined to try that.
+I had now one old horse, and a couple of two
+year old colts. They were both broke to the
+halter, and my father-in-law proposed, that, if I<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[69]</a></span>
+went, he would go with me, and take one horse to
+help me move. So we all fixed up, and I packed my
+two colts with as many of my things as they could
+bear; and away we went across the mountains.
+We got on well enough, and arrived safely in
+Lincoln county, on the head of the Mulberry fork
+of Elk river. I found this a very rich country,
+and so new, that game, of different sorts, was very
+plenty. It was here that I began to distinguish
+myself as a hunter, and to lay the foundation for
+all my future greatness; but mighty little did I
+know of what sort it was going to be. Of deer
+and smaller game I killed abundance; but the bear
+had been much hunted in those parts before, and
+were not so plenty as I could have wished. I
+lived here in the years 1809 and '10, to the best
+of my recollection, and then I moved to Franklin
+county, and settled on Beans creek, where I remained
+till after the close of the last war.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[70]</a></span></p>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[71]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+<h2>CHAPTER V.</h2>
+
+
+<p>I was living ten miles below Winchester when
+the Creek war commenced; and as military men
+are making so much fuss in the world at this time,
+I must give an account of the part I took in the
+defence of the country. If it should make me
+president, why I can't help it; such things will
+sometimes happen; and my pluck is, never "to
+seek, nor decline office."</p>
+
+<p>It is true, I had a little rather not; but yet, if
+the government can't get on without taking another
+president from Tennessee, to finish the work of
+"retrenchment and reform," why, then, I reckon
+I must go in for it. But I must begin about the
+war, and leave the other matter for the people to
+begin on.</p>
+
+<p>The Creek Indians had commenced their open
+hostilities by a most bloody butchery at Fort
+Mimms. There had been no war among us for
+so long, that but few, who were not too old to
+bear arms, knew any thing about the business. I,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[72]</a></span>
+for one, had often thought about war, and had
+often heard it described; and I did verily believe
+in my own mind, that I couldn't fight in
+that way at all; but my after experience convinced
+me that this was all a notion. For when I
+heard of the mischief which was done at the fort,
+I instantly felt like going, and I had none of the
+dread of dying that I expected to feel. In a few
+days a general meeting of the militia was called
+for the purpose of raising volunteers; and when
+the day arrived for that meeting, my wife, who
+had heard me say I meant to go to the war, began
+to beg me not to turn out. She said she was
+a stranger in the parts where we lived, had no
+connexions living near her, and that she and our
+little children would be left in a lonesome and
+unhappy situation if I went away. It was mighty
+hard to go against such arguments as these; but
+my countrymen had been murdered, and I knew
+that the next thing would be, that the Indians
+would be scalping the women and children all
+about there, if we didn't put a stop to it. I reasoned
+the case with her as well as I could, and
+told her, that if every man would wait till his
+wife got willing for him to go to war, there would
+be no fighting done, until we would all be killed
+in our own houses; that I was as able to go as<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[73]</a></span>
+any man in the world; and that I believed it was
+a duty I owed to my country. Whether she was
+satisfied with this reasoning or not, she did not
+tell me; but seeing I was bent on it, all she did
+was to cry a little, and turn about to her work.
+The truth is, my dander was up, and nothing but
+war could bring it right again.</p>
+
+<p>I went to Winchester, where the muster was to
+be, and a great many people had collected, for
+there was as much fuss among the people about
+the war as there is now about moving the deposites.
+When the men were paraded, a lawyer
+by the name of Jones addressed us, and closed
+by turning out himself, and enquiring, at the same
+time, who among us felt like we could fight Indians?
+This was the same Mr. Jones who afterwards
+served in Congress, from the state of Tennessee.
+He informed us he wished to raise a
+company, and that then the men should meet and
+elect their own officers. I believe I was about the
+second or third man that step'd out; but on
+marching up and down the regiment a few times,
+we found we had a large company. We volunteered
+for sixty days, as it was supposed our
+services would not be longer wanted. A day or
+two after this we met and elected Mr. Jones our
+captain, and also elected our other officers. We<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[74]</a></span>
+then received orders to start on the next Monday
+week; before which time, I had fixed as well as I
+could to go, and my wife had equip'd me as well
+as she was able for the camp. The time arrived;
+I took a parting farewell of my wife and my little
+boys, mounted my horse, and set sail, to join
+my company. Expecting to be gone only a short
+time, I took no more clothing with me than I
+supposed would be necessary, so that if I got into
+an Indian battle, I might not be pestered with any
+unnecessary plunder, to prevent my having a fair
+shake with them. We all met and went ahead,
+till we passed Huntsville, and camped at a large
+spring called Beaty's spring. Here we staid for
+several days, in which time the troops began to
+collect from all quarters. At last we mustered
+about thirteen hundred strong, all mounted volunteers,
+and all determined to fight, judging from
+myself, for I felt wolfish all over. I verily believe
+the whole army was of the real grit. Our
+captain didn't want any other sort; and to try
+them he several times told his men, that if any of
+them wanted to go back home, they might do so
+at any time, before they were regularly mustered
+into the service. But he had the honour to command
+all his men from first to last, as not one of
+them left him.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[75]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Gen'l. Jackson had not yet left Nashville with
+his old foot volunteers, that had gone with him to
+Natchez in 1812, the year before. While we remained
+at the spring, a Major Gibson came, and
+wanted some volunteers to go with him across the
+Tennessee river and into the Creek nation, to find
+out the movements of the Indians. He came to
+my captain, and asked for two of his best woods-men,
+and such as were best with a rifle. The captain
+pointed me out to him, and said he would be
+security that I would go as far as the major would
+himself, or any other man. I willingly engaged
+to go with him, and asked him to let me choose
+my own mate to go with me, which he said I might
+do. I chose a young man by the name of George
+Russell, a son of old Major Russell, of Tennessee.
+I called him up, but Major Gibson said he thought
+he hadn't beard enough to please him,&mdash;he wanted
+men, and not boys. I must confess I was a little
+nettled at this; for I know'd George Russell,
+and I know'd there was no mistake in him; and
+I didn't think that courage ought to be measured
+by the beard, for fear a goat would have the preference
+over a man. I told the major he was on the
+wrong scent; that Russell could go as far as he
+could, and I must have him along. He saw I was
+a little wrathy, and said I had the best chance of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[76]</a></span>
+knowing, and agreed that it should be as I wanted
+it. He told us to be ready early in the morning
+for a start; and so we were. We took our camp
+equipage, mounted our horses, and, thirteen in
+number, including the major, we cut out. We
+went on, and crossed the Tennessee river at a
+place called Ditto's Landing; and then traveled
+about seven miles further, and took up camp for
+the night. Here a man by the name of John
+Haynes overtook us. He had been an Indian
+trader in that part of the nation, and was well acquainted
+with it. He went with us as a pilot. The
+next morning, however, Major Gibson and myself
+concluded we should separate and take different
+directions to see what discoveries we could make;
+so he took seven of the men, and I five, making
+thirteen in all, including myself. He was to go by
+the house of a Cherokee Indian, named Dick
+Brown, and I was to go by Dick's father's; and
+getting all the information we could, we were to
+meet that evening where the roads came together,
+fifteen miles the other side of Brown's. At old
+Mr. Brown's I got a half blood Cherokee to agree
+to go with me, whose name was Jack Thompson.
+He was not then ready to start, but was to
+fix that evening, and overtake us at the fork road
+where I was to meet Major Gibson. I know'd it<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[77]</a></span>
+wouldn't be safe to camp right at the road;
+and so I told Jack, that when he got to the
+fork he must holler like an owl, and I would
+answer him in the same way; for I know'd
+it would be night before he got there. I and
+my men then started, and went on to the
+place of meeting, but Major Gibson was not there.
+We waited till almost dark, but still he didn't
+come. We then left the Indian trace a little distance,
+and turning into the head of a hollow, we
+struck up camp. It was about ten o'clock at night,
+when I heard my owl, and I answered him. Jack
+soon found us, and we determined to rest there
+during the night. We staid also next morning till
+after breakfast: but in vain, for the major didn't
+still come.</p>
+
+<p>I told the men we had set out to hunt a fight,
+and I wouldn't go back in that way; that we
+must go ahead, and see what the red men were at.
+We started, and went to a Cherokee town about
+twenty miles off; and after a short stay there, we
+pushed on to the house of a man by the name of
+Radcliff. He was a white man, but had married
+a Creek woman, and lived just in the edge of the
+Creek nation. He had two sons, large likely fellows,
+and a great deal of potatoes and corn, and,
+indeed, almost every thing else to go on; so we<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[78]</a></span>
+fed our horses and got dinner with him, and
+seemed to be doing mighty well. But he was
+bad scared all the time. He told us there had
+been ten painted warriors at his house only an
+hour before, and if we were discovered there, they
+would kill us, and his family with us. I replied
+to him, that my business was to hunt for just
+such fellows as he had described, and I was determined
+not to go back until I had done it. Our
+dinner being over, we saddled up our horses, and
+made ready to start. But some of my small
+company I found were disposed to return. I told
+them, if we were to go back then, we should
+never hear the last of it; and I was determined
+to go ahead. I knowed some of them would go
+with me, and that the rest were afraid to go back
+by themselves; and so we pushed on to the camp
+of some of the friendly Creeks, which was distant
+about eight miles. The moon was about the
+full, and the night was clear; we therefore had
+the benefit of her light from night to morning,
+and I knew if we were placed in such danger as
+to make a retreat necessary, we could travel by
+night as well as in the day time.</p>
+
+<p>We had not gone very far, when we met two
+negroes, well mounted on Indian ponies, and each
+with a good rifle. They had been taken from<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[79]</a></span>
+their owners by the Indians, and were running
+away from them, and trying to get back to their
+masters again. They were brothers, both very
+large and likely, and could talk Indian as well as
+English. One of them I sent on to Ditto's Landing,
+the other I took back with me. It was after
+dark when we got to the camp, where we found
+about forty men, women, and children.</p>
+
+<p>They had bows and arrows, and I turned in to
+shooting with their boys by a pine light. In this
+way we amused ourselves very well for a while;
+but at last the negro, who had been talking to the
+Indians, came to me and told me they were very
+much alarmed, for the "red sticks," as they called
+the war party of the Creeks, would come and find
+us there; and, if so, we should all be killed. I
+directed him to tell them that I would watch, and
+if one would come that night, I would carry the
+skin of his head home to make me a mockasin.
+When he made this communication, the Indians
+laughed aloud. At about ten o'clock at night we
+all concluded to try to sleep a little; but that our
+horses might be ready for use, as the treasurer said
+of the drafts on the United States' bank, on certain
+"contingences," we tied them up with our
+saddles on them, and every thing to our hand, if
+in the night our quarters should get uncomfortable.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[80]</a></span>
+We lay down with our guns in our arms,
+and I had just gotten into a dose of sleep, when I
+heard the sharpest scream that ever escaped the
+throat of a human creature. It was more like a
+wrathy painter than any thing else. The negro
+understood it, and he sprang to me; for tho' I
+heard the noise well enough, yet I wasn't wide
+awake enough to get up. So the negro caught
+me, and said the red sticks was coming. I rose
+quicker then, and asked what was the matter?
+Our negro had gone and talked with the Indian
+who had just fetched the scream, as he come into
+camp, and learned from him, that the war party
+had been crossing the Coosa river all day at the
+Ten islands; and were going on to meet Jackson,
+and this Indian had come as a runner. This
+news very much alarmed the friendly Indians in
+camp, and they were all off in a few minutes. I
+felt bound to make this intelligence known as
+soon as possible to the army we had left at the
+landing; and so we all mounted our horses, and
+put out in a long lope to make our way back to
+that place. We were about sixty-five miles off.
+We went on to the same Cherokee town we had
+visited on our way out, having first called at Radcliff's,
+who was off with his family; and at the
+town we found large fires burning, but not a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[81]</a></span>
+single Indian was to be seen. They were all gone.
+These circumstances were calculated to lay our
+dander a little, as it appeared we must be in great
+danger; though we could easily have licked any
+force of not more than five to one. But we expected
+the whole nation would be on us, and
+against such fearful odds we were not so rampant
+for a fight.</p>
+
+<p>We therefore staid only a short time in the light
+of the fires about the town, preferring the light of
+the moon and the shade of the woods. We pushed
+on till we got again to old Mr. Brown's, which
+was still about thirty miles from where we had
+left the main army. When we got there, the
+chickens were just at the first crowing for day.
+We fed our horses, got a morsel to eat ourselves,
+and again cut out. About ten o'clock in the
+morning we reached the camp, and I reported to
+Col. Coffee the news. He didn't seem to mind
+my report a bit, and this raised my dander higher
+than ever; but I knowed I had to be on my best
+behaviour, and so I kept it all to myself; though
+I was so mad that I was burning inside like a tar-kiln,
+and I wonder that the smoke hadn't been
+pouring out of me at all points.</p>
+
+<p>Major Gibson hadn't yet returned, and we all
+began to think he was killed; and that night they<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[82]</a></span>
+put out a double guard. The next day the major
+got in, and brought a worse tale than I had, though
+he stated the same facts, so far as I went. This
+seemed to put our colonel all in a fidget; and it
+convinced me, clearly, of one of the hateful ways
+of the world. When I made my report, it wasn't
+believed, because I was no officer; I was no great
+man, but just a poor soldier. But when the same
+thing was reported by Major Gibson!! why, then,
+it was all as true as preaching, and the colonel believed
+it every word.</p>
+
+<p>He, therefore, ordered breastworks to be thrown
+up, near a quarter of a mile long, and sent an express
+to Fayetteville, where General Jackson and
+his troops was, requesting them to push on like the
+very mischief, for fear we should all be cooked up
+to a cracklin before they could get there. Old
+Hickory-face made a forced march on getting the
+news; and on the next day, he and his men got
+into camp, with their feet all blistered from the
+effects of their swift journey. The volunteers,
+therefore, stood guard altogether, to let them rest.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[83]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+<h2>CHAPTER VI.</h2>
+
+
+<p>About eight hundred of the volunteers, and of
+that number I was one, were now sent back, crossing
+the Tennessee river, and on through Huntsville,
+so as to cross the river again at another place,
+and to get on the Indians in another direction.
+After we passed Huntsville, we struck on the
+river at the Muscle Shoals, and at a place on them
+called Melton's Bluff. This river is here about
+two miles wide, and a rough bottom; so much
+so, indeed, in many places, as to be dangerous;
+and in fording it this time, we left several of the
+horses belonging to our men, with their feet fast in
+the crevices of the rocks. The men, whose horses
+were thus left, went ahead on foot. We pushed
+on till we got to what was called the Black Warrior's
+town, which stood near the very spot where
+Tuscaloosa now stands, which is the seat of government
+for the state of Alabama.</p>
+
+<p>This Indian town was a large one; but when
+we arrived we found the Indians had all left it.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[84]</a></span>
+There was a large field of corn standing out, and
+a pretty good supply in some cribs. There was
+also a fine quantity of dried beans, which were
+very acceptable to us; and without delay we secured
+them as well as the corn, and then burned
+the town to ashes; after which we left the place.</p>
+
+<p>In the field where we gathered the corn we
+saw plenty of fresh Indian tracks, and we had no
+doubt they had been scared off by our arrival.</p>
+
+<p>We then went on to meet the main army at the
+fork road, where I was first to have met Major
+Gibson. We got that evening as far back as the
+encampment we had made the night before we
+reached the Black Warrior's town, which we had
+just destroyed. The next day we were entirely
+out of meat. I went to Col. Coffee, who was then
+in command of us, and asked his leave to hunt as
+we marched. He gave me leave, but told me
+to take mighty good care of myself. I turned
+aside to hunt, and had not gone far when I found
+a deer that had just been killed and skinned, and
+his flesh was still warm and smoking. From this
+I was sure that the Indian who had killed it had
+been gone only a very few minutes; and though I
+was never much in favour of one hunter stealing
+from another, yet meat was so scarce in camp, that
+I thought I must go in for it. So I just took up<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[85]</a></span>
+the deer on my horse before me, and carried it
+on till night. I could have sold it for almost any
+price I would have asked; but this wasn't my
+rule, neither in peace nor war. Whenever I had
+any thing, and saw a fellow being suffering, I was
+more anxious to relieve him than to benefit myself.
+And this is one of the true secrets of my
+being a poor man to this day. But it is my way;
+and while it has often left me with an empty purse,
+which is as near the devil as any thing else I have
+seen, yet it has never left my heart empty of consolations
+which money couldn't buy,&mdash;the consolations
+of having sometimes fed the hungry and
+covered the naked.</p>
+
+<p>I gave all my deer away, except a small part I
+kept for myself, and just sufficient to make a good
+supper for my mess; for meat was getting to be
+a rarity to us all. We had to live mostly on
+parched corn. The next day we marched on, and
+at night took up camp near a large cane brake.
+While here, I told my mess I would again try for
+some meat; so I took my rifle and cut out,
+but hadn't gone far, when I discovered a large
+gang of hogs. I shot one of them down in his
+tracks, and the rest broke directly towards the
+camp. In a few minutes, the guns began to roar,
+as bad as if the whole army had been in an Indian<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[86]</a></span>
+battle; and the hogs to squeal as bad as the
+pig did, when the devil turned barber. I shouldered
+my hog, and went on to the camp; and
+when I got there I found they had killed a good
+many of the hogs, and a fine fat cow into the
+bargain, that had broke out of the cane brake.
+We did very well that night, and the next morning
+marched on to a Cherokee town, where our
+officers stop'd, and gave the inhabitants an order
+on Uncle Sam for their cow, and the hogs we had
+killed. The next day we met the main army,
+having had, as we thought, hard times, and a
+plenty of them, though we had yet seen hardly
+the beginning of trouble.</p>
+
+<p>After our meeting we went on to Radcliff's,
+where I had been before while out as a spy; and
+when we got there, we found he had hid all his
+provisions. We also got into the secret, that he
+was the very rascal who had sent the runner to
+the Indian camp, with the news that the "red
+sticks" were crossing at the Ten Islands; and
+that his object was to scare me and my men away,
+and send us back with a false alarm.</p>
+
+<p>To make some atonement for this, we took the
+old scroundrell's two big sons with us, and made
+them serve in the war.</p>
+
+<p>We then marched to a place, which we called<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[87]</a></span>
+Camp Wills; and here it was that Captain Cannon
+was promoted to a colonel, and Colonel Coffee to
+a general. We then marched to the Ten Islands,
+on the Coosa river, where we established a fort;
+and our spy companies were sent out. They soon
+made prisoners of Bob Catala and his warriors,
+and, in a few days afterwards, we heard of some
+Indians in a town about eight miles off. So we
+mounted our horses, and put out for that town,
+under the direction of two friendly Creeks we had
+taken for pilots. We had also a Cherokee colonel,
+Dick Brown, and some of his men with us. When
+we got near the town we divided; one of our
+pilots going with each division. And so we
+passed on each side of the town, keeping near
+to it, until our lines met on the far side. We
+then closed up at both ends, so as to surround
+it completely; and then we sent Captain Hammond's
+company of rangers to bring on the affray.
+He had advanced near the town, when the
+Indians saw him, and they raised the yell, and
+came running at him like so many red devils.
+The main army was now formed in a hollow
+square around the town, and they pursued Hammond
+till they came in reach of us.  We then
+gave them a fire, and they returned it, and then
+ran back into their town. We began to close on<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[88]</a></span>
+the town by making our files closer and closer,
+and the Indians soon saw they were our property.
+So most of them wanted us to take them
+prisoners; and their squaws and all would run
+and take hold of any of us they could, and give
+themselves up. I saw seven squaws have hold
+of one man, which made me think of the Scriptures.
+So I hollered out the Scriptures was fulfilling;
+that there was seven women holding to
+one man's coat tail. But I believe it was a hunting-shirt
+all the time. We took them all prisoners
+that came out to us in this way; but I saw some
+warriors run into a house, until I counted forty-six
+of them. We pursued them until we got near
+the house, when we saw a squaw sitting in the door,
+and she placed her feet against the bow she had in
+her hand, and then took an arrow, and, raising her
+feet, she drew with all her might, and let fly at us, and
+she killed a man, whose name, I believe, was Moore.
+He was a lieutenant, and his death so enraged
+us all, that she was fired on, and had at least
+twenty balls blown through her. This was the
+first man I ever saw killed with a bow and arrow.
+We now shot them like dogs; and then
+set the house on fire, and burned it up with the
+forty-six warriors in it. I recollect seeing a
+boy who was shot down near the house. His<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[89]</a></span>
+arm and thigh was broken, and he was so near
+the burning house that the grease was stewing
+out of him. In this situation he was still trying
+to crawl along; but not a murmur escaped him,
+though he was only about twelve years old. So
+sullen is the Indian, when his dander is up, that
+he had sooner die than make a noise, or ask for
+quarters.</p>
+
+<p>The number that we took prisoners, being
+added to the number we killed, amounted to one
+hundred and eighty-six; though I don't remember
+the exact number of either. We had five
+of our men killed. We then returned to our
+camp, at which our fort was erected, and known
+by the name of Fort Strother. No provisions
+had yet reached us, and we had now been for
+several days on half rations. However we went
+back to our Indian town on the next day, when
+many of the carcasses of the Indians were still to
+be seen. They looked very awful, for the burning
+had not entirely consumed them, but given
+them a very terrible appearance, at least what remained
+of them. It was, somehow or other,
+found out that the house had a potatoe cellar under
+it, and an immediate examination was made, for
+we were all as hungry as wolves. We found a
+fine chance of potatoes in it, and hunger compelled<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[90]</a></span>
+us to eat them, though I had a little rather not,
+if I could have helped it, for the oil of the Indians
+we had burned up on the day before had run
+down on them, and they looked like they had
+been stewed with fat meat. We then again returned
+to the army, and remained there for several
+days almost starving, as all our beef was gone.
+We commenced eating the beef-hides, and continued
+to eat every scrap we could lay our hands
+on. At length an Indian came to our guard one
+night, and hollered, and said he wanted to see
+"Captain Jackson." He was conducted to the
+general's markee, into which he entered, and in
+a few minutes we received orders to prepare for
+marching.</p>
+
+<p>In an hour we were all ready, and took up the
+line of march. We crossed the Coosa river, and
+went on in the direction to Fort Taladega. When
+we arrived near the place, we met eleven hundred
+painted warriors, the very choice of the Creek nation.
+They had encamped near the fort, and had
+informed the friendly Indians who were in it, that
+if they didn't come out, and fight with them
+against the whites, they would take their fort and
+all their ammunition and provision. The friendly
+party asked three days to consider of it, and agreed
+that if on the third day they didn't come out<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[91]</a></span>
+ready to fight with them, they might take their
+fort. Thus they put them off. They then immediately
+started their runner to General Jackson,
+and he and the army pushed over, as I have just
+before stated.</p>
+
+<p>The camp of warriors had their spies out, and
+discovered us coming, some time before we got to
+the fort. They then went to the friendly Indians,
+and told them Captain Jackson was coming, and
+had a great many fine horses, and blankets, and
+guns, and every thing else; and if they would
+come out and help to whip him, and to take his
+plunder, it should all be divided with those in the
+fort.  They promised that when Jackson came,
+they would then come out and help to whip him.
+It was about an hour by sun in the morning, when
+we got near the fort. We were piloted by friendly
+Indians, and divided as we had done on a former
+occasion, so as to go to the right and left of the
+fort, and, consequently, of the warriors who were
+camped near it. Our lines marched on, as before,
+till they met in front, and then closed in the rear,
+forming again into a hollow square.  We then
+sent on old Major Russell, with his spy company,
+to bring on the battle; Capt. Evans' company
+went also. When they got near the fort, the top
+of it was lined with the friendly Indians, crying<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[92]</a></span>
+out as loud as they could roar, "How-dy-do,
+brother, how-dy-do?" They kept this up till Major
+Russel had passed by the fort, and was moving
+on towards the warriors. They were all painted
+as red as scarlet, and were just as naked as they
+were born. They had concealed themselves under
+the bank of a branch, that ran partly around the
+fort, in the manner of a half moon.  Russel was
+going right into their circle, for he couldn't see
+them, while the Indians on the top of the fort were
+trying every plan to show him his danger.  But
+he couldn't understand them. At last, two of
+them jumped from it, and ran, and took his horse
+by the bridle, and pointing to where they were,
+told him there were thousands of them lying under
+the bank. This brought them to a halt, and about
+this moment the Indians fired on them, and came
+rushing forth like a cloud of Egyptian locusts, and
+screaming like all the young devils had been
+turned loose, with the old devil of all at their
+head. Russel's company quit their horses, and
+took into the fort, and their horses ran up to our
+line, which was then in full view. The warriors
+then came yelling on, meeting us, and continued
+till they were within shot of us, when we fired
+and killed a considerable number of them. They
+then broke like a gang of steers, and ran across to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[93]</a></span>
+our other line, where they were again fired on; and
+so we kept them running from one line to the
+other, constantly under a heavy fire, until we had
+killed upwards of four hundred of them. They
+fought with guns, and also with their bows and
+arrows; but at length they made their escape
+through a part of our line, which was made up of
+drafted militia, which broke ranks, and they passed.
+We lost fifteen of our men, as brave fellows as
+ever lived or died. We buried them all in one
+grave, and started back to our fort; but before we
+got there, two more of our men died of wounds
+they had received; making our total loss seventeen
+good fellows in that battle.</p>
+
+<p>We now remained at the fort a few days, but
+no provision came yet, and we were all likely to
+perish. The weather also began to get very cold;
+and our clothes were nearly worn out, and horses
+getting very feeble and poor. Our officers proposed
+to Gen'l. Jackson to let us return home and
+get fresh horses, and fresh clothing, so as to be
+better prepared for another campaign; for our
+sixty days had long been out, and that was the
+time we entered for.</p>
+
+<p>But the general took "the responsibility" on
+himself, and refused. We were, however, determined
+to go, as I am to put back the deposites, <i>if<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[94]</a></span>
+I can</i>. With this, the general issued his orders
+against it, as he has against the bank. But we
+began to fix for a start, as provisions were too
+scarce; just as Clay, and Webster, and myself are
+preparing to fix bank matters, on account of the
+scarcity of money. The general went and placed
+his cannon on a bridge we had to cross, and ordered
+out his regulars and drafted men to keep
+us from crossing; just as he has planted his Globe
+and K. C. to alarm the bank men, while his regulars
+and militia in Congress are to act as artillery
+men. But when the militia started to guard the
+bridge, they would holler back to us to bring
+their knapsacks along when we come, for they
+wanted to go as bad as we did; just as many a
+good fellow now wants his political knapsack
+brought along, that if, when we come to vote, he
+sees he has a <i>fair shake to go</i>, he may join in
+and help us to take back the deposites.</p>
+
+<p>We got ready and moved on till we came near
+the bridge, where the general's men were all
+strung along on both sides, just like the office-holders
+are now, to keep us from getting along
+to the help of the country and the people. But
+we all had our flints ready picked, and our guns
+ready primed, that if we were fired on we might
+fight our way through, or all die together; just<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[95]</a></span>
+as we are now determined to save the country
+from ready ruin, or to sink down with it.
+When we came still nearer the bridge we heard
+the guards cocking their guns, and we did the
+same; just as we have had it in Congress, while
+the "government" regulars and the people's volunteers
+have all been setting their political triggers.
+But, after all, we marched boldly on, and
+not a gun was fired, nor a life lost; just as I hope
+it will be again, that we shall not be afraid of
+the general's Globe, nor his K. C., nor his regulars,
+nor their trigger snapping; but just march
+boldly over the executive bridge, and take the
+deposites back where the law placed them, and
+where they ought to be. When we had passed,
+no further attempt was made to stop us; but the
+general said, we were "the damned'st volunteers
+he had ever seen in his life; that we would volunteer
+and go out and fight, and then at our
+pleasure would <i>volunteer</i> and go home again, in
+spite of the devil." But we went on; and near
+Huntsville we met a reinforcement who were
+going on to join the army. It consisted of a regiment
+of volunteers, and was under the command
+of some one whose name I can't remember.
+They were sixty-day volunteers.</p>
+
+<p>We got home pretty safely, and in a short time<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[96]</a></span>
+we had procured fresh horses and a supply of
+clothing better suited for the season; and then we
+returned to Fort Deposite, where our officers held
+a sort of a "<i>national convention</i>" on the subject
+of a message they had received from General
+Jackson,&mdash;demanding that on our return we
+should serve out <i>six months</i>. We had already
+served three months instead of two, which was
+the time we had volunteered for. On the next
+morning the officers reported to us the conclusions
+they had come to; and told us, if any of us felt
+bound to go on and serve out the six months, we
+could do so; but that they intended to go back
+home. I knowed if I went back home I couldn't
+rest, for I felt it my duty to be out; and when out
+was, somehow or other, always delighted to be in
+the very thickest of the danger. A few of us,
+therefore, determined to push on and join the
+army. The number I do not recollect, but it was
+very small.</p>
+
+<p>When we got out there, I joined Major Russel's
+company of spies. Before we reached the place,
+General Jackson had started. We went on likewise,
+and overtook him at a place where we established
+a fort, called Fort Williams, and leaving
+men to guard it, we went ahead; intending to go
+to a place called the Horse-shoe bend of the Talapoosa<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">[97]</a></span>
+river. When we came near that place, we
+began to find Indian sign plenty, and we struck
+up camp for the night. About two hours before
+day, we heard our guard firing, and we were all
+up in little or no time. We mended up our camp
+fires, and then fell back in the dark, expecting to
+see the Indians pouring in; and intending, when
+they should do so, to shoot them by the light of
+our own fires. But it happened that they did not
+rush in as we had expected, but commenced a fire on
+us as we were. We were encamped in a hollow
+square, and we not only returned the fire, but
+continued to shoot as well as we could in the
+dark, till day broke, when the Indians disappeared.
+The only guide we had in shooting was
+to notice the flash of their guns, and then shoot as
+directly at the place as we could guess.</p>
+
+<p>In this scrape we had four men killed, and several
+wounded; but whether we killed any of
+the Indians or not we never could tell, for it is
+their custom always to carry off their dead, if
+they can possibly do so. We buried ours, and
+then made a large log heap over them, and set it
+on fire, so that the place of their deposite might
+not be known to the savages, who, we knew,
+would seek for them, that they might scalp them.
+We made some horse litters for our wounded, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">[98]</a></span>
+took up a retreat. We moved on till we came to
+a large creek which we had to cross; and about
+half of our men had crossed, when the Indians
+commenced firing on our left wing, and they
+kept it up very warmly. We had left Major
+Russel and his brother at the camp we had moved
+from that morning, to see what discovery they
+could make as to the movements of the Indians;
+and about this time, while a warm fire was kept
+up on our left, as I have just stated, the major
+came up in our rear, and was closely pursued by
+a large number of Indians, who immediately
+commenced a fire on our artillery men. They
+hid themselves behind a large log, and could kill
+one of our men almost every shot, they being in
+open ground and exposed. The worst of all was,
+two of our colonels just at this trying moment
+left their men, and by <i>a forced march</i>, crossed
+the creek out of the reach of the fire. Their
+names, at this late day, would do the world no
+good, and my object is history alone, and not the
+slightest interference with character. An opportunity
+was now afforded for Governor Carroll to
+distinguish himself, and on this occasion he did
+so, by greater bravery than I ever saw any other
+man display. In truth, I believe, as firmly as I
+do that General Jackson is president, that if it<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[99]</a></span>
+hadn't been for Carroll, we should all have been
+genteely licked that time, for we were in a devil
+of a fix; part of our men on one side of the
+creek, and part on the other, and the Indians all
+the time pouring it on us, as hot as fresh mustard
+to a sore shin. I will not say exactly that the old
+general was whip'd; but I will say, that if we escaped
+it at all, it was like old Henry Snider going to
+heaven, "mita tam tite squeeze." I think he would
+confess himself, that he was nearer whip'd this
+time than he was at any other, for I know that
+all the world couldn't make him acknowledge that
+he was <i>pointedly</i> whip'd. I know I was mighty
+glad when it was over, and the savages quit us,
+for I had begun to think there was one behind
+every tree in the woods.</p>
+
+<p>We buried our dead, the number of whom I
+have also forgotten; and again made horse litters
+to carry our wounded, and so we put out, and returned
+to Fort Williams, from which place we had
+started. In the mean time, my horse had got crippled,
+and was unfit for service, and as another reinforcement
+had arrived, I thought they could get
+along without me for a short time; so I got a furlough
+and went home, for we had had hard times again
+on this hunt, and I began to feel as though I had<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100">[100]</a></span>
+done Indian fighting enough for one time. I remained
+at home until after the army had returned
+to the Horse-shoe bend, and fought the battle
+there. But not being with them at that time, of
+course no history of that fight can be expected
+of me.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101">[101]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+<h2>CHAPTER VII.</h2>
+
+
+<p>Soon after this, an army was to be raised to go
+to Pensacola, and I determined to go again with
+them, for I wanted a small taste of British fighting,
+and I supposed they would be there.</p>
+
+<p>Here again the entreaties of my wife were
+thrown in the way of my going, but all in vain;
+for I always had a way of just going ahead, at
+whatever I had a mind to. One of my neighbours,
+hearing I had determined to go, came to
+me, and offered me a hundred dollars to go in
+his place as a substitute, as he had been drafted.
+I told him I was better raised than to hire myself
+out to be shot at; but that I would go, and he
+should go too, and in that way the government
+would have the services of us both. But we
+didn't call General Jackson "the government" in
+those days, though we used to go and fight under
+him in the war.</p>
+
+<p>I fixed up, and joined old Major Russel again;
+but we couldn't start with the main army, but<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102">[102]</a></span>
+followed on, in a little time, after them. In a
+day or two, we had a hundred and thirty men
+in our company; and we went over and crossed
+the Muscle Shoals at the same place where I had
+crossed when first out, and when we burned the
+Black Warriors' town. We passed through the
+Choctaw and Chickesaw nations, on to Fort Stephens,
+and from thence to what is called the
+Cut-off, at the junction of the Tom-Bigby with
+the Alabama river. This place is near the old
+Fort Mimms, where the Indians committed the
+great butchery at the commencement of the war.</p>
+
+<p>We were here about two days behind the main
+army, who had left their horses at the Cut-off,
+and taken it on foot; and they did this because
+there was no chance for forage between there
+and Pensacola. We did the same, leaving men
+enough to take care of our horses, and cut out
+on foot for that place. It was about eighty miles
+off; but in good heart we shouldered our guns,
+blankets, and provisions, and trudged merrily on.
+About twelve o'clock the second day, we reached
+the encampment of the main army, which was
+situated on a hill, overlooking the city of Pensacola.
+My commander, Major Russel, was a
+great favourite with Gen'l. Jackson, and our arrival
+was hailed with great applause, though we<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103">[103]</a></span>
+were a little after the feast; for they had taken
+the town and fort before we got there. That evening
+we went down into the town, and could see
+the British fleet lying in sight of the place. We
+got some liquor, and took a "horn" or so, and
+went back to the camp. We remained there that
+night, and in the morning we marched back towards
+the Cut-off. We pursued this direction till we
+reached old Fort Mimms, where we remained two
+or three days. It was here that Major Russel was
+promoted from his command, which was only that
+of a captain of spies, to the command of a major
+in the line. He had been known long before at
+home as old Major Russel, and so we all continued
+to call him in the army. A Major Childs,
+from East Tennessee, also commanded a battalion,
+and his and the one Russel was now appointed to
+command, composed a regiment, which, by agreement
+with General Jackson, was to quit his army
+and go to the south, to kill up the Indians on the
+Scamby river.</p>
+
+<p>General Jackson and the main army set out
+the next morning for New Orleans, and a Colonel
+Blue took command of the regiment which I
+have before described. We remained, however,
+a few days after the general's departure, and then
+started also on our route.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_104" id="Page_104">[104]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>As it gave rise to so much war and bloodshed,
+it may not be improper here to give a little
+description of Fort Mimms, and the manner in
+which the Indian war commenced. The fort was
+built right in the middle of a large old field, and
+in it the people had been forted so long and so
+quietly, that they didn't apprehend any danger at
+all, and had, therefore, become quite careless. A
+small negro boy, whose business it was to bring
+up the calves at milking time, had been out for
+that purpose, and on coming back, he said he saw
+a great many Indians. At this the inhabitants
+took the alarm, and closed their gates and placed
+out their guards, which they continued for a few
+days. But finding that no attack was made, they
+concluded the little negro had lied; and again
+threw their gates open, and set all their hands out
+to work their fields. The same boy was out again
+on the same errand, when, returning in great
+haste and alarm, he informed them that he had
+seen the Indians as thick as trees in the woods.
+He was not believed, but was tucked up to receive
+a flogging for the supposed lie; and was actually
+getting badly licked at the very moment when
+the Indians came in a troop, loaded with rails,
+with which they stop'd all the port-holes of the
+fort on one side except the bastion; and then they<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">[105]</a></span>
+fell in to cutting down the picketing. Those inside
+the fort had only the bastion to shoot from,
+as all the other holes were spiked up; and they
+shot several of the Indians, while engaged in cutting.
+But as fast as one would fall, another would
+seize up the axe and chop away, until they succeeded
+in cutting down enough of the picketing
+to admit them to enter. They then began to rush
+through, and continued until they were all in.
+They immediately commenced scalping, without
+regard to age or sex; having forced the inhabitants
+up to one side of the fort, where they carried
+on the work of death as a butcher would in a
+slaughter pen.</p>
+
+<p>The scene was particularly described to me by
+a young man who was in the fort when it happened,
+and subsequently went on with us to Pensacola.
+He said that he saw his father, and mother,
+his four sisters, and the same number of brothers,
+all butchered in the most shocking manner, and
+that he made his escape by running over the heads
+of the crowd, who were against the fort wall, to
+the top of the fort, and then jumping off, and
+taking to the woods. He was closely pursued by
+several Indians, until he came to a small byo,
+across which there was a log. He knew the log
+was hollow on the under side, so he slip'd under<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">[106]</a></span>
+the log and hid himself. He said he heard the
+Indians walk over him several times back and
+forward. He remained, nevertheless, still till
+night, when he came out, and finished his escape.
+The name of this young man has entirely escaped
+my recollection, though his tale greatly excited
+my feelings. But to return to my subject. The
+regiment marched from where Gen'l. Jackson had
+left us to Fort Montgomery, which was distant
+from Fort Mimms about a mile and a half, and
+there we remained for some days.</p>
+
+<p>Here we supplied ourselves pretty well with
+beef, by killing wild cattle which had formerly
+belonged to the people who perished in the fort,
+but had gone wild after their massacre.</p>
+
+<p>When we marched from Fort Montgomery, we
+went some distance back towards Pensacola; then
+we turned to the left, and passed through a poor
+piny country, till we reached the Scamby river,
+near which we encamped. We had about one
+thousand men, and as a part of that number, one
+hundred and eighty-six Chickesaw and Choctaw
+Indians with us. That evening a boat landed
+from Pensacola, bringing many articles that were
+both good and necessary; such as sugar and coffee,
+and liquors of all kinds. The same evening, the
+Indians we had along proposed to cross the river,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_107" id="Page_107">[107]</a></span>
+and the officers thinking it might be well for them
+to do so, consented; and Major Russell went
+with them, taking sixteen white men, of which
+number I was one. We camped on the opposite
+bank that night, and early in the morning we set
+out. We had not gone far before we came to a
+place where the whole country was covered with
+water, and looked like a sea. We didn't stop for
+this, tho', but just put in like so many spaniels,
+and waded on, sometimes up to our armpits, until
+we reached the pine hills, which made our distance
+through the water about a mile and a half.
+Here we struck up a fire to warm ourselves, for it
+was cold, and we were chilled through by being
+so long in the water. We again moved on, keeping
+our spies out; two to our left near the bank of
+the river, two straight before us, and two others on
+our right. We had gone in this way about six miles
+up the river, when our spies on the left came to
+us leaping the brush like so many old bucks, and
+informed us that they had discovered a camp of
+Creek Indians, and that we must kill them. Here
+we paused for a few minutes, and the prophets
+pow-wowed over their men awhile, and then got
+out their paint, and painted them, all according to
+their custom when going into battle. They then
+brought their paint to old Major Russell, and said<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108">[108]</a></span>
+to him, that as he was an officer, he must be painted
+too. He agreed, and they painted him just as
+they had done themselves. We let the Indians
+understand that we white men would first fire on
+the camp, and then fall back, so as to give the Indians
+a chance to rush in and scalp them. The
+Chickasaws marched on our left hand, and the
+Choctaws on our right, and we moved on till we
+got in hearing of the camp, where the Indians
+were employed in beating up what they called
+chainy briar root. On this they mostly subsisted.
+On a nearer approach we found they were
+on an island, and that we could not get to them.
+While we were chatting about this matter, we
+heard some guns fired, and in a very short time
+after a keen whoop, which satisfied us, that whereever
+it was, there was war on a small scale. With
+that we all broke, like quarter horses, for the
+firing; and when we got there we found it was
+our two front spies, who related to us the following
+story:&mdash;As they were moving on, they had met
+with two Creeks who were out hunting their
+horses; as they approached each other, there was a
+large cluster of green bay bushes exactly between
+them, so that they were within a few feet of meeting
+before either was discovered. Our spies
+walked up to them, and speaking in the Shawnee<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_109" id="Page_109">[109]</a></span>
+tongue, informed them that General Jackson was
+at Pensacola, and they were making their escape,
+and wanted to know where they could get something
+to eat. The Creeks told them that nine
+miles up the Conaker, the river they were then
+on, there was a large camp of Creeks, and they
+had cattle and plenty to eat; and further, that
+their own camp was on an island about a mile off,
+and just below the mouth of the Conaker. They
+held their conversation and struck up a fire, and
+smoked together, and shook hands, and parted.
+One of the Creeks had a gun, the other had none;
+and as soon as they had parted, our Choctaws turned
+round and shot down the one that had the gun,
+and the other attempted to run off. They snapped
+several times at him, but the gun still missing fire,
+they took after him, and overtaking him, one of
+them struck him over the head with his gun, and
+followed up his blows till he killed him.</p>
+
+<p>The gun was broken in the combat, and they
+then fired off the gun of the Creek they had killed,
+and raised the war-whoop. When we reached
+them, they had cut off the heads of both the Indians;
+and each of those Indians with us would
+walk up to one of the heads, and taking his war
+club would strike on it. This was done by every
+one of them; and when they had got done, I took<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_110" id="Page_110">[110]</a></span>
+one of their clubs, and walked up as they had
+done, and struck it on the head also. At this they
+all gathered round me, and patting me on the
+shoulder, would call me "Warrior&mdash;warrior."</p>
+
+<p>They scalped the heads, and then we moved on
+a short distance to where we found a trace leading
+in towards the river. We took this trace and
+pursued it, till we came to where a Spaniard had
+been killed and scalped, together with a woman,
+who we supposed to be his wife, and also four
+children. I began to feel mighty ticklish along
+about this time, for I knowed if there was no danger
+then, there had been; and I felt exactly like
+there still was. We, however, went on till we
+struck the river, and then continued down it till
+we came opposite to the Indian camp, where we
+found they were still beating their roots.</p>
+
+<p>It was now late in the evening, and they were
+in a thick cane brake. We had some few friendly
+Creeks with us, who said they could decoy them.
+So we all hid behind trees and logs, while the attempt
+was made. The Indians would not agree
+that we should fire, but pick'd out some of their
+best gunners, and placed them near the river.
+Our Creeks went down to the river's side, and
+hailed the camp in the Creek language. We heard
+an answer, and an Indian man started down towards<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111">[111]</a></span>
+the river, but didn't come in sight. He
+went back and again commenced beating his roots,
+and sent a squaw. She came down, and talked
+with our Creeks until dark came on. They told
+her they wanted her to bring them a canoe. To
+which she replied, that their canoe was on our
+side; that two of their men had gone out to hunt
+their horses and hadn't yet returned. They were
+the same two we had killed. The canoe was
+found, and forty of our picked Indian warriors
+were crossed over to take the camp. There was
+at last only one man in it, and he escaped; and
+they took two squaws, and ten children, but
+killed none of them, of course.</p>
+
+<p>We had run nearly out of provisions, and Major
+Russell had determined to go up the Conaker
+to the camp we had heard of from the Indians we
+had killed. I was one that he selected to go down
+the river that night for provisions, with the canoe,
+to where we had left our regiment. I took with
+me a man by the name of John Guess, and one
+of the friendly Creeks, and cut out. It was very
+dark, and the river was so full that it overflowed
+the banks and the adjacent low bottoms. This
+rendered it very difficult to keep the channel, and
+particularly as the river was very crooked. At
+about ten o'clock at night we reached the camp,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_112" id="Page_112">[112]</a></span>
+and were to return by morning to Major Russell,
+with provisions for his trip up the river; but on
+informing Colonel Blue of this arrangement, he
+vetoed it as quick as General Jackson did the
+bank bill; and said, if Major Russell didn't come
+back the next day, it would be bad times for him.
+I found we were not to go up the Conaker to the
+Indian camp, and a man of my company offered to
+go up in my place to inform Major Russell. I let
+him go; and they reached the major, as I was told,
+about sunrise in the morning, who immediately
+returned with those who were with him to the
+regiment, and joined us where we crossed the
+river, as hereafter stated.</p>
+
+<p>The next morning we all fixed up, and marched
+down the Scamby to a place called Miller's Landing,
+where we swam our horses across, and sent
+on two companies down on the side of the bay
+opposite to Pensacola, where the Indians had fled
+when the main army first marched to that place.
+One was the company of Captain William Russell,
+a son of the old major, and the other was commanded
+by a Captain Trimble. They went on, and
+had a little skirmish with the Indians. They killed
+some, and took all the balance prisoners, though
+I don't remember the numbers. We again met
+those companies in a day or two, and sent the prisoners<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_113" id="Page_113">[113]</a></span>
+they had taken on to Fort Montgomery,
+in charge of some of our Indians.</p>
+
+<p>I did hear, that after they left us, the Indians
+killed and scalped all the prisoners, and I never
+heard the report contradicted. I cannot positively
+say it was true, but I think it entirely probable,
+for it is very much like the Indian character.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_114" id="Page_114">[114]</a></span></p>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_115" id="Page_115">[115]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+<h2>CHAPTER VIII.</h2>
+
+
+<p>When we made a move from the point where
+we met the companies, we set out for Chatahachy,
+the place for which we had started when we left
+Fort Montgomery. At the start we had taken
+only twenty days' rations of flour, and eight days'
+rations of beef; and it was now thirty-four days
+before we reached that place. We were, therefore,
+in extreme suffering for want of something to eat,
+and exhausted with our exposure and the fatigues
+of our journey. I remember well, that I had not
+myself tasted bread but twice in nineteen days.
+I had bought a pretty good supply of coffee from
+the boat that had reached us from Pensacola, on
+the Scamby, and on that we chiefly subsisted.
+At length, one night our spies came in, and informed
+us they had found Holm's village on the
+Chatahachy river; and we made an immediate
+push for that place. We traveled all night, expecting
+to get something to eat when we got
+there. We arrived about sunrise, and near the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_116" id="Page_116">[116]</a></span>
+place prepared for battle. We were all so furious,
+that even the certainty of a pretty hard fight
+could not have restrained us. We made a furious
+charge on the town, but to our great mortification
+and surprise, there wasn't a human being in it.
+The Indians had all run off and left it. We
+burned the town, however; but, melancholy to
+tell, we found no provision whatever. We then
+turned about, and went back to the camp we had
+left the night before, as nearly starved as any set
+of poor fellows ever were in the world.</p>
+
+<p>We staid there only a little while, when we
+divided our regiment; and Major Childs, with
+his men, went back the way we had come for a
+considerable distance, and then turned to Baton Rouge,
+where they joined General Jackson and
+the main army on their return from Orleans.
+Major Russell and his men struck for Fort Decatur,
+on the Talapoosa river. Some of our friendly
+Indians, who knew the country, went on ahead of
+us, as we had no trail except the one they made
+to follow. With them we sent some of our ablest
+horses and men, to get us some provisions, to prevent
+us from absolutely starving to death. As
+the army marched, I hunted every day, and would
+kill every hawk, bird, and squirrel that I could
+find. Others did the same; and it was a rule<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_117" id="Page_117">[117]</a></span>
+with us, that when we stop'd at night, the hunters
+would throw all they killed in a pile, and then
+we would make a general division among all the
+men. One evening I came in, having killed nothing
+that day. I had a very sick man in my
+mess, and I wanted something for him to eat, even
+if I starved myself. So I went to the fire of a
+Captain Cowen, who commanded my company
+after the promotion of Major Russell, and informed
+him that I was on the hunt of something for a
+sick man to eat. I knowed the captain was as
+bad off as the rest of us, but I found him broiling
+a turkey's gizzard. He said he had divided the
+turkey out among the sick, that Major Smiley had
+killed it, and that nothing else had been killed
+that day. I immediately went to Smiley's fire,
+where I found him broiling another gizzard. I
+told him, that it was the first turkey I had ever
+seen have two gizzards. But so it was, I got
+nothing for my sick man. And now seeing that
+every fellow must shift for himself, I determined
+that in the morning, I would come up missing;
+so I took my mess and cut out to go ahead of the
+army. We know'd that nothing more could
+happen to us if we went than if we staid, for
+it looked like it was to be starvation any way;
+we therefore determined to go on the old saying,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_118" id="Page_118">[118]</a></span>
+root hog or die. We passed two camps, at which
+our men, that had gone on before us, had killed
+Indians. At one they had killed nine, and at
+the other three. About daylight we came to a
+small river, which I thought was the Scamby; but
+we continued on for three days, killing little or
+nothing to eat; till, at last, we all began to get
+nearly ready to give up the ghost, and lie down
+and die; for we had no prospect of provision, and
+we knew we couldn't go much further without it.</p>
+
+<p>We came to a large prairie, that was about six
+miles across it, and in this I saw a trail which I
+knowed was made by bear, deer, and turkeys.
+We went on through it till we came to a large
+creek, and the low grounds were all set over with
+wild rye, looking as green as a wheat field. We
+here made a halt, unsaddled our horses, and turned
+them loose to graze.</p>
+
+<p>One of my companions, a Mr. Vanzant, and myself,
+then went up the low grounds to hunt. We
+had gone some distance, finding nothing; when
+at last, I found a squirrel; which I shot, but he
+got into a hole in the tree. The game was small,
+but necessity is not very particular; so I thought
+I must have him, and I climbed that tree thirty
+feet high, without a limb, and pulled him out of
+his hole. I shouldn't relate such small matters,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119">[119]</a></span>
+only to show what lengths a hungry man will go
+to, to get something to eat. I soon killed two
+other squirrels, and fired at a large hawk. At
+this a large gang of turkeys rose from the cane
+brake, and flew across the creek to where my
+friend was, who had just before crossed it. He
+soon fired on a large gobler, and I heard it fall.
+By this time my gun was loaded again, and I saw
+one sitting on my side of the creek, which had
+flew over when he fired; so I blazed away, and
+down I brought him. I gathered him up, and a
+fine turkey he was. I now began to think we had
+struck a breeze of luck, and almost forgot our past
+sufferings, in the prospect of once more having
+something to eat. I raised the shout, and my
+comrade came to me, and we went on to our
+camp with the game we had killed. While we
+were gone, two of our mess had been out, and
+each of them had found a bee tree. We turned
+into cooking some of our game, but we had neither
+salt nor bread. Just at this moment, on
+looking down the creek, we saw our men, who
+had gone on before us for provisions, coming to
+us. They came up, and measured out to each
+man a cupfull of flower. With this, we thickened
+our soup, when our turkey was cooked, and our
+friends took dinner with us, and then went on.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_120" id="Page_120">[120]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>We now took our tomahawks, and went and cut
+our bee-trees, out of which we got a fine chance
+of honey; though we had been starving so long
+that we feared to eat much at a time, till, like the
+Irish by hanging, we got used to it again. We
+rested that night without moving our camp; and
+the next morning myself and Vanzant again
+turned out to hunt. We had not gone far, before
+I wounded a fine buck very badly; and while pursuing
+him, I was walking on a large tree that had
+fallen down, when from the top of it, a large bear
+broke out and ran off. I had no dogs, and I was
+sorry enough for it; for of all the hunting I ever
+did, I have always delighted most in bear hunting.
+Soon after this, I killed a large buck; and we had
+just gotten him to camp, when our poor starved
+army came up. They told us, that to lessen their
+sufferings as much as possible, Captain William
+Russell had had his horse led up to be shot for
+them to eat, just at the moment that they saw our
+men returning, who had carried on the flour.</p>
+
+<p>We were now about fourteen miles from Fort
+Decatur, and we gave away all our meat, and
+honey, and went on with the rest of the army.
+When we got there, they could give us only one
+ration of meat, but not a mouthful of bread. I immediately
+got a canoe, and taking my gun, crossed<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121">[121]</a></span>
+over the river, and went to the Big Warrior's
+town. I had a large hat, and I offered an Indian
+a silver dollar for my hat full of corn. He told
+me that his corn was all "<i>shuestea</i>," which in
+English means, it was all gone. But he showed
+me where an Indian lived, who, he said, had corn.
+I went to him, and made the same offer. He could
+talk a little broken English, and said to me, "You
+got any powder? You got bullet?" I told him I
+had. He then said, "Me swap my corn, for
+powder and bullet." I took out about ten bullets,
+and showed him; and he proposed to give me a
+hat full of corn for them. I took him up, mighty
+quick. I then offered to give him ten charges of
+powder for another hat full of corn. To this he
+agreed very willingly. So I took off my hunting-shirt,
+and tied up my corn; and though it had
+cost me very little of my powder and lead, yet I
+wouldn't have taken fifty silver dollars for it. I returned
+to the camp, and the next morning we started
+for the Hickory Ground, which was thirty miles
+off. It was here that General Jackson met the Indians,
+and made peace with the body of the nation.</p>
+
+<p>We got nothing to eat at this place, and we had
+yet to go forty-nine miles, over a rough and wilderness
+country, to Fort Williams. Parched corn,
+and but little even of that, was our daily subsistence.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_122" id="Page_122">[122]</a></span>
+When we reached Fort Williams, we got
+one ration of pork and one of flour, which was
+our only hope until we could reach Fort Strother.</p>
+
+<p>The horses were now giving out, and I remember
+to have seen thirteen good horses left in one
+day, the saddles and bridles being thrown away.
+It was thirty-nine miles to Fort Strother, and we
+had to pass directly by Fort Talladego, where we
+first had the big Indian battle with the eleven
+hundred painted warriors. We went through the
+old battle ground, and it looked like a great gourd
+patch; the sculls of the Indians who were killed
+still lay scattered all about, and many of their
+frames were still perfect, as the bones had not
+separated. But about five miles before we got to
+this battle ground, I struck a trail, which I followed
+until it led me to one of their towns. Here I swap'd
+some more of my powder and bullets for a little corn.</p>
+
+<p>I pursued on, by myself, till some time after
+night, when I came up with the rest of the army.
+That night my company and myself did pretty
+well, as I divided out my corn among them. The
+next morning we met the East Tennessee troops,
+who were on their road to Mobile, and my youngest
+brother was with them. They had plenty of
+corn and provisions, and they gave me what I
+wanted for myself and my horse.  I remained<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123">[123]</a></span>
+with them that night, though my company went
+across the Coosa river to the fort, where they also
+had the good fortune to find plenty of provisions.
+Next morning, I took leave of my brother and all
+my old neighbours, for there were a good many of
+them with him, and crossed over to my men at
+the fort. Here I had enough to go on, and after
+remaining a few days, cut out for home. Nothing
+more, worthy of the reader's attention, transpired
+till I was safely landed at home once more with
+my wife and children. I found them all well and
+doing well; and though I was only a rough
+sort of a backwoodsman, they seemed mighty glad
+to see me, however little the quality folks might
+suppose it. For I do reckon we love as hard in
+the backwood country, as any people in the whole
+creation.</p>
+
+<p>But I had been home only a few days, when we
+received orders to start again, and go on to the
+Black Warrior and Cahawba rivers, to see if there
+was no Indians there. I know'd well enough there
+was none, and I wasn't willing to trust my craw
+any more where there was neither any fighting to
+do, nor any thing to go on; and so I agreed to give
+a young man, who wanted to go, the balance of my
+wages if he would serve out my time, which was
+about a month. He did so, and when they returned,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_124" id="Page_124">[124]</a></span>
+sure enough they hadn't seen an Indian any more
+than if they had been all the time chopping wood
+in my clearing. This closed my career as a warrior,
+and I am glad of it, for I like life now a heap better
+than I did then; and I am glad all over that I
+lived to see these times, which I should not
+have done if I had kept fooling along in war, and
+got used up at it. When I say I am glad, I just
+mean I am glad I am alive, for there is a confounded
+heap of things I an't glad of at all. I an't glad,
+for example, that the "government" moved the
+deposites, and if my military glory should take
+such a turn as to make me president after the general's
+time, I'll move them back; yes, I, the
+"government," will "take the responsibility,"
+and move them back again. If I don't, I wish I
+may be shot.</p>
+
+<p>But I am glad that I am now through war matters,
+and I reckon the reader is too, for they have no
+fun in them at all; and less if he had had to pass
+through them first, and then to write them afterwards.
+But for the dullness of their narrative, I must try
+to make amends by relating some of the curious
+things that happened to me in private life, and
+when <i>forced</i> to become a public man, as I shall
+have to be again, if ever I consent to take the
+presidential chair.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125">[125]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+<h2>CHAPTER IX.</h2>
+
+
+<p>I continued at home now, working my farm
+for two years, as the war finally closed soon
+after I quit the service. The battle at New
+Orleans had already been fought, and treaties
+were made with the Indians which put a stop to
+their hostilities.</p>
+
+<p>But in this time, I met with the hardest trial
+which ever falls to the lot of man. Death, that
+cruel leveller of all distinctions,&mdash;to whom the
+prayers and tears of husbands, and of even helpless
+infancy, are addressed in vain,&mdash;entered my
+humble cottage, and tore from my children an affectionate
+good mother, and from me a tender and
+loving wife.</p>
+
+<p>It is a scene long gone by, and one which it
+would be supposed I had almost forgotten; yet
+when I turn my memory back on it, it seems as but
+the work of yesterday. It was the doing of the
+Almighty, whose ways are always right, though
+we sometimes think they fall heavily on us; and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_126" id="Page_126">[126]</a></span>
+as painful as is even yet the remembrance of her
+sufferings, and the loss sustained by my little children
+and myself, yet I have no wish to lift up the
+voice of complaint. I was left with three children;
+the two oldest were sons, the youngest a
+daughter, and, at that time, a mere infant. It appeared
+to me, at that moment, that my situation
+was the worst in the world. I couldn't bear the
+thought of scattering my children, and so I got
+my youngest brother, who was also married, and
+his family to live with me. They took as good
+care of my children as they well could, but yet it
+wasn't all like the care of a mother. And though
+their company was to me in every respect like
+that of a brother and sister, yet it fell far short of
+being like that of a wife. So I came to the conclusion
+it wouldn't do, but that I must have another
+wife.</p>
+
+<p>There lived in the neighbourhood, a widow lady
+whose husband had been killed in the war. She
+had two children, a son and daughter, and both
+quite small, like my own. I began to think, that
+as we were both in the same situation, it might be
+that we could do something for each other; and I
+therefore began to hint a little around the matter,
+as we were once and a while together. She was a
+good industrious woman, and owned a snug little<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_127" id="Page_127">[127]</a></span>
+farm, and lived quite comfortable. I soon began
+to pay my respects to her in real good earnest;
+but I was as sly about it as a fox when he is going
+to rob a hen-roost. I found that my company
+wasn't at all disagreeable to her; and I thought I
+could treat her children with so much friendship
+as to make her a good stepmother to mine, and in
+this I wan't mistaken, as we soon bargained, and
+got married, and then went ahead. In a great
+deal of peace we raised our first crop of children,
+and they are all married and doing well. But
+we had a second crop together; and I shall notice
+them as I go along, as my wife and myself both
+had a hand in them, and they therefore belong to
+the history of my second marriage.</p>
+
+<p>The next fall after this marriage, three of my
+neighbours and myself determined to explore a
+new country. Their names were Robinson, Frazier,
+and Rich. We set out for the Creek country,
+crossing the Tennessee river; and after having
+made a day's travel, we stop'd at the house of one
+of my old acquaintances, who had settled there
+after the war. Resting here a day, Frazier turned
+out to hunt, being a great hunter; but he got
+badly bit by a very poisonous snake, and so we
+left him and went on. We passed through a large
+rich valley, called Jones's valley, where several<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_128" id="Page_128">[128]</a></span>
+other families had settled, and continued our
+course till we came near to the place where Tuscaloosa
+now stands. Here we camped, as there
+were no inhabitants, and hobbled out our horses
+for the night. About two hours before day, we
+heard the bells on our horses going back the way
+we had come, as they had started to leave us.
+As soon as it was daylight, I started in pursuit of
+them on foot, and carrying my rifle, which was a
+very heavy one. I went ahead the whole day,
+wading creeks and swamps, and climbing mountains;
+but I couldn't overtake our horses, though
+I could hear of them at every house they passed.
+I at last found I couldn't catch up with them, and
+so I gave up the hunt, and turned back to the last
+house I had passed, and staid there till morning.
+From the best calculation we could make, I had
+walked over fifty miles that day; and the next
+morning I was so sore, and fatigued, that I felt
+like I couldn't walk any more. But I was anxious
+to get back to where I had left my company, and
+so I started and went on, but mighty slowly, till
+after the middle of the day. I now began to
+feel mighty sick, and had a dreadful head-ache.
+My rifle was so heavy, and I felt so weak, that I
+lay down by the side of the trace, in a perfect
+wilderness too, to see if I wouldn't get better.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_129" id="Page_129">[129]</a></span>
+In a short time some Indians came along. They
+had some ripe melons, and wanted me to eat
+some, but I was so sick I couldn't. They then
+signed to me, that I would die, and be buried;
+a thing I was confoundedly afraid of myself.
+But I asked them how near it was to any house?
+By their signs, again, they made me understand it
+was a mile and a half. I got up to go; but when
+I rose, I reeled about like a cow with the blind
+staggers, or a fellow who had taken too many
+"horns."  One of the Indians proposed to go
+with me, and carry my gun. I gave him half a
+dollar, and accepted his offer. We got to the
+house, by which time I was pretty far gone, but
+was kindly received, and got on to a bed. The
+woman did all she could for me with her warm
+teas, but I still continued bad enough, with a high
+fever, and generally out of my senses. The next
+day two of my neighbours were passing the road,
+and heard of my situation, and came to where I
+was. They were going nearly the route I had
+intended to go, to look at the country; and so
+they took me first on one of their horses, and
+then on the other, till they got me back to where
+I had left my company. I expected I would get
+better, and be able to go on with them, but, instead
+of this, I got worse and worse; and when we got<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_130" id="Page_130">[130]</a></span>
+there, I wan't able to sit up at all. I thought
+now the jig was mighty nigh up with me, but I
+determined to keep a stiff upper lip. They carried
+me to a house, and each of my comrades
+bought him a horse, and they all set out together,
+leaving me behind. I knew but little that was
+going on for about two weeks; but the family
+treated me with every possible kindness in their
+power, and I shall always feel thankful to them.
+The man's name was Jesse Jones. At the end of
+two weeks I began to mend without the help of a
+doctor, or of any doctor's means. In this time,
+however, as they told me, I was speechless for
+five days, and they had no thought that I would
+ever speak again,&mdash;in Congress or any where else.
+And so the woman, who had a bottle of Batesman's
+draps, thought if they killed me, I would
+only die any how, and so she would try it with
+me. She gave me the whole bottle, which
+throwed me into a sweat that continued on me
+all night; when at last I seemed to make up, and
+spoke, and asked her for a drink of water. This
+almost alarmed her, for she was looking every
+minute for me to die. She gave me the water,
+and, from that time, I began slowly to mend, and
+so kept on till I was able at last to walk about a
+little. I might easily have been mistaken for<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_131" id="Page_131">[131]</a></span>
+one of the Kitchen Cabinet, I looked so much
+like a ghost. I have been particular in giving a
+history of this sickness, not because I believe it
+will interest any body much now, nor, indeed,
+do I <i>certainly</i> know that it ever will. But if I
+should be forced to take the "white house," then
+it will be good history; and every one will look
+on it as important. And I can't, for my life, help
+laughing now, to think, that when all my folks
+get around me, wanting good fat offices, how so
+many of them will say, "What a good thing it
+was that that kind woman had the bottle of draps,
+that saved <span class="smcap">President Crockett's</span> life,&mdash;the second
+greatest and best"!!!!! Good, says I,
+my noble fellow! You take the post office; or
+the navy; or the war office; or may-be the
+treasury. But if I give him the treasury, there's
+no devil if I don't make him agree first to fetch
+back them deposites. And if it's even the post office,
+I'll make him promise to keep his money
+'counts without any figuring, as that throws the
+whole concern heels over head in debt, in little
+or no time.</p>
+
+<p>But when I got so I could travel a little, I got
+a waggoner who was passing along to hawl me
+to where he lived, which was about twenty miles
+from my house. I still mended as we went along,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_132" id="Page_132">[132]</a></span>
+and when we got to his stopping place, I hired
+one of his horses, and went on home. I was so
+pale, and so much reduced, that my face looked
+like it had been half soled with brown paper.</p>
+
+<p>When I got there, it was to the utter astonishment
+of my wife; for she supposed I was dead.
+My neighbours who had started with me had returned
+and took my horse home, which they
+had found with their's; and they reported that
+they had seen men who had helped to bury me;
+and who saw me draw my last breath. I know'd
+this was a whapper of a lie, as soon as I heard it.
+My wife had hired a man, and sent him out to see
+what had become of my money and other things;
+but I had missed the man as I went in, and he
+didn't return until some time after I got home,
+as he went all the way to where I lay sick, before
+he heard that I was still in the land of the living
+and a-kicking.</p>
+
+<p>The place on which I lived was sickly, and I
+was determined to leave it. I therefore set out
+the next fall to look at the country which had
+been purchased of the Chickasaw tribe of Indians.
+I went on to a place called Shoal Creek, about
+eighty miles from where I lived, and here again
+I got sick. I took the ague and fever, which I
+supposed was brought on me by camping out. I<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_133" id="Page_133">[133]</a></span>
+remained here for some time, as I was unable to
+go farther; and in that time, I became so well
+pleased with the country about there, that I resolved
+to settle in it. It was just only a little distance
+in the purchase, and no order had been established
+there; but I thought I could get along
+without order as well as any body else. And so I
+moved and settled myself down on the head of
+Shoal Creek. We remained here some two or
+three years, without any law at all; and so many
+bad characters began to flock in upon us, that we
+found it necessary to set up a sort of temporary
+government of our own. I don't mean that we
+made any president, and called him the "government,"
+but we met and made what we called a
+corporation; and I reckon we called <i>it</i> wrong,
+for it wa'n't a bank, and hadn't any deposites;
+and now they call the bank a corporation. But
+be this as it may, we lived in the back-woods, and
+didn't profess to know much, and no doubt used
+many wrong words. But we met, and appointed
+magistrates and constables to keep order. We
+didn't fix any laws for them, tho'; for we supposed
+they would know law enough, whoever
+they might be; and so we left it to themselves to
+fix the laws.</p>
+
+<p>I was appointed one of the magistrates; and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_134" id="Page_134">[134]</a></span>
+when a man owed a debt, and wouldn't pay
+it, I and my constable ordered our warrant, and
+then he would take the man, and bring him before
+me for trial. I would give judgment against
+him, and then an order of an execution would
+easily scare the debt out of him. If any one was
+charged with marking his neighbour's hogs, or
+with stealing any thing, which happened pretty
+often in those days,&mdash;I would have him taken, and
+if there was tolerable grounds for the charge, I
+would have him well whip'd and cleared. We
+kept this up till our Legislature added us to
+the white settlements in Giles county; and appointed
+magistrates by law, to organize matters in
+the parts where I lived. They appointed nearly
+every man a magistrate who had belonged to our
+corporation. I was then, of course, made a squire
+according to law; though now the honour rested
+more heavily on me than before. For, at first,
+whenever I told my constable, says I&mdash;"Catch that
+fellow, and bring him up for trial"&mdash;away he went,
+and the fellow must come, dead or alive; for we
+considered this a good warrant, though it was only
+in verbal writings. But after I was appointed
+by the assembly, they told me, my warrants must
+be in real writing, and signed; and that I must
+keep a book, and write my proceedings in it.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_135" id="Page_135">[135]</a></span>
+This was a hard business on me, for I could just
+barely write my own name; but to do this, and
+write the warrants too, was at least a huckleberry
+over my persimmon. I had a pretty
+well informed constable, however; and he aided
+me very much in this business. Indeed I had so
+much confidence in him, that I told him, when we
+should happen to be out anywhere, and see that
+a warrant was necessary, and would have a good
+effect, he need'nt take the trouble to come all
+the way to me to get one, but he could just fill
+out one; and then on the trial I could correct the
+whole business if he had committed any error. In
+this way I got on pretty well, till by care and attention
+I improved my handwriting in such manner
+as to be able to prepare my warrants, and keep
+my record book, without much difficulty. My
+judgments were never appealed from, and if they
+had been they would have stuck like wax, as I
+gave my decisions on the principles of common
+justice and honesty between man and man, and
+relied on natural born sense, and not on law,
+learning to guide me; for I had never read a
+page in a law book in all my life.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_136" id="Page_136">[136]</a></span></p>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_137" id="Page_137">[137]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+<h2>CHAPTER X.</h2>
+
+
+<p>About the time we were getting under good
+headway in our new government, a Capt. Matthews
+came to me and told me he was a candidate
+for the office of colonel of a regiment, and that I
+must run for first major in the same regiment. I
+objected to this, telling him that I thought I had
+done my share of fighting, and that I wanted nothing
+to do with military appointments.</p>
+
+<p>He still insisted, until at last I agreed, and of
+course had every reason to calculate on his support
+in my election. He was an early settler in that
+country, and made rather more corn than the rest
+of us; and knowing it would afford him a good
+opportunity to electioneer a little, he made a great
+corn husking, and a great frolic, and gave a general
+treat, asking every body over the whole country.
+Myself and my family were, of course, invited.
+When I got there, I found a very large collection
+of people, and some friend of mine soon
+informed me that the captain's son was going to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_138" id="Page_138">[138]</a></span>
+offer against me for the office of major, which he
+had seemed so anxious for me to get. I cared
+nothing about the office, but it put my dander up
+high enough to see, that after he had pressed me
+so hard to offer, he was countenancing, if not encouraging,
+a secret plan to beat me. I took the
+old gentleman out, and asked him about it. He
+told me it was true his son was going to run
+as a candidate, and that he hated worse to run
+against me than any man in the county. I told
+him his son need give himself no uneasiness about
+that; that I shouldn't run against him for major,
+but against his daddy for colonel. He took me
+by the hand, and we went into the company. He
+then made a speech, and informed the people that
+I was his opponent. I mounted up for a speech
+too. I told the people the cause of my opposing
+him, remarking that as I had the whole family to
+run against any way, I was determined to levy on
+the head of the mess. When the time for the election
+came, his son was opposed by another man for
+major; and he and his daddy were both badly
+beaten. I just now began to take a rise, as in a
+little time I was asked to offer for the Legislature
+in the counties of Lawrence and Heckman.</p>
+
+<p>I offered my name in the month of February,
+and started about the first of March with a drove<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_139" id="Page_139">[139]</a></span>
+of horses to the lower part of the state of North
+Carolina. This was in the year 1821, and I was
+gone upwards of three months. I returned, and
+set out electioneering, which was a bran-fire new
+business to me. It now became necessary that I
+should tell the people something about the government,
+and an eternal sight of other things that I
+knowed nothing more about than I did about Latin,
+and law, and such things as that. I have said before
+that in those days none of us called Gen'l.
+Jackson the government, nor did he seem in as
+fair a way to become so as I do now; but I knowed
+so little about it, that if any one had told me he
+was "the government," I should have believed it,
+for I had never read even a newspaper in my life,
+or any thing else, on the subject. But over all my
+difficulties, it seems to me I was born for luck,
+though it would be hard for any one to guess what
+sort. I will, however, explain that hereafter.</p>
+
+<p>I went first into Heckman county, to see what I
+could do among the people as a candidate. Here
+they told me that they wanted to move their town
+nearer to the centre of the county, and I must
+come out in favour of it. There's no devil if I
+knowed what this meant, or how the town was to
+be moved; and so I kept dark, going on the identical
+same plan that I now find is called "<i>non-committal</i>."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_140" id="Page_140">[140]</a></span>
+About this time there was a great
+squirrel hunt on Duck river, which was among my
+people. They were to hunt two days: then to
+meet and count the scalps, and have a big barbecue,
+and what might be called a tip-top country
+frolic. The dinner, and a general treat, was all to
+be paid for by the party having taken the fewest
+scalps. I joined one side, taking the place of one
+of the hunters, and got a gun ready for the hunt.
+I killed a great many squirrels, and when we
+counted scalps, my party was victorious.</p>
+
+<p>The company had every thing to eat and drink
+that could be furnished in so new a country, and
+much fun and good humour prevailed. But before
+the regular frolic commenced, I mean the
+dancing, I was called on to make a speech as a candidate;
+which was a business I was as ignorant of
+as an outlandish negro.</p>
+
+<p>A public document I had never seen, nor did I
+know there were such things; and how to begin I
+couldn't tell. I made many apologies, and tried to
+get off, for I know'd I had a man to run against
+who could speak prime, and I know'd, too, that I
+wa'n't able to shuffle and cut with him. He was
+there, and knowing my ignorance as well as I did
+myself, he also urged me to make a speech. The
+truth is, he thought my being a candidate was a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_141" id="Page_141">[141]</a></span>
+mere matter of sport; and didn't think, for a moment,
+that he was in any danger from an ignorant
+back-woods bear hunter. But I found I couldn't
+get off, and so I determined just to go ahead, and
+leave it to chance what I should say. I got up
+and told the people, I reckoned they know'd what
+I come for, but if not, I could tell them. I had
+come for their votes, and if they didn't watch
+mighty close, I'd get them too. But the worst
+of all was, that I couldn't tell them any thing about
+government. I tried to speak about something,
+and I cared very little what, until I choaked up as
+bad as if my mouth had been jam'd and cram'd
+chock full of dry mush. There the people stood,
+listening all the while, with their eyes, mouths
+and ear all open, to catch every word I would
+speak.</p>
+
+<p>At last I told them I was like a fellow I had
+heard of not long before. He was beating on the
+head of an empty barrel near the road-side, when
+a traveler, who was passing along, asked him what
+he was doing that for? The fellow replied, that
+there was some cider in that barrel a few days before,
+and he was trying to see if there was any then,
+but if there was he couldn't get at it. I told them
+that there had been a little bit of a speech in me a
+while ago, but I believed I couldn't get it out.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_142" id="Page_142">[142]</a></span>
+They all roared out in a mighty laugh, and I told
+some other anecdotes, equally amusing to them,
+and believing I had them in a first-rate way, I quit
+and got down, thanking the people for their attention.
+But I took care to remark that I was as dry
+as a powder horn, and that I thought it was time
+for us all to wet our whistles a little; and so I put
+off to the liquor stand, and was followed by the
+greater part of the crowd.</p>
+
+<p>I felt certain this was necessary, for I knowed
+my competitor could open government matters to
+them as easy as he pleased. He had, however,
+mighty few left to hear him, as I continued with
+the crowd, now and then taking a horn, and telling
+good humoured stories, till he was done speaking.
+I found I was good for the votes at the hunt, and
+when we broke up, I went on to the town of Vernon,
+which was the same they wanted me to move.
+Here they pressed me again on the subject, and I
+found I could get either party by agreeing with
+them. But I told them I didn't know whether it
+would be right or not, and so couldn't promise
+either way.</p>
+
+<p>Their court commenced on the next Monday, as
+the barbacue was on a Saturday, and the candidates
+for governor and for Congress, as well as my
+competitor and myself, all attended.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_143" id="Page_143">[143]</a></span>
+The thought of having to make a speech made
+my knees feel mighty weak, and set my heart to
+fluttering almost as bad as my first love scrape with
+the Quaker's niece. But as good luck would have
+it, these big candidates spoke nearly all day, and
+when they quit, the people were worn out with
+fatigue, which afforded me a good apology for not
+discussing the government. But I listened mighty
+close to them, and was learning pretty fast about
+political matters. When they were all done, I got
+up and told some laughable story, and quit. I
+found I was safe in those parts, and so I went
+home, and didn't go back again till after the
+election was over. But to cut this matter short,
+I was elected, doubling my competitor, and nine
+votes over.</p>
+
+<p>A short time after this, I was in Pulaski, where
+I met with Colonel Polk, now a member of Congress
+from Tennessee. He was at that time a
+member elected to the Legislature, as well as myself;
+and in a large company he said to me,
+"Well, colonel, I suppose we shall have a radical
+change of the judiciary at the next session of the
+Legislature." "Very likely, sir," says I, and I
+put out quicker, for I was afraid some one would
+ask me what the judiciary was; and if I knowed
+I wish I may be shot. I don't indeed believe I had<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_144" id="Page_144">[144]</a></span>
+ever before heard that there was any such thing
+in all nature; but still I was not willing that the
+people there should know how ignorant I was
+about it.</p>
+
+<p>When the time for meeting of the Legislature
+arrived, I went on, and before I had been there
+long, I could have told what the judiciary was,
+and what the government was too; and many
+other things that I had known nothing about before.</p>
+
+<p>About this time I met with a very severe misfortune,
+which I may be pardoned for naming, as
+it made a great change in my circumstances, and
+kept me back very much in the world. I had
+built an extensive grist mill, and powder mill, all
+connected together, and also a large distillery.
+They had cost me upwards of three thousand
+dollars, more than I was worth in the world.
+The first news that I heard after I got to the
+Legislature, was, that my mills were&mdash;not blown
+up sky high, as you would guess, by my powder
+establishment,&mdash;but swept away all to smash by a
+large fresh, that came soon after I left home. I
+had, of course, to stop my distillery, as my grinding
+was broken up; and, indeed, I may say, that
+the misfortune just made a complete mash of me.
+I had some likely negroes, and a good stock of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_145" id="Page_145">[145]</a></span>
+almost every thing about me, and, best of all, I
+had an honest wife. She didn't advise me, as is
+too fashionable, to smuggle up this, and that, and
+t'other, to go on at home; but she told me,
+says she, "Just pay up, as long as you have a bit's
+worth in the world; and then every body will
+be satisfied, and we will scuffle for more." This
+was just such talk as I wanted to hear, for a
+man's wife can hold him devlish uneasy, if she
+begins to scold, and fret, and perplex him, at a
+time when he has a full load for a rail-road car
+on his mind already.</p>
+
+<p>And so, you see, I determined not to break full
+handed, but thought it better to keep a good conscience
+with an empty purse, than to get a bad
+opinion of myself, with a full one. I therefore
+gave up all I had, and took a bran-fire new start.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_146" id="Page_146">[146]</a></span></p>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_147" id="Page_147">[147]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+<h2>CHAPTER XI.</h2>
+
+
+<p>Having returned from the Legislature, I determined
+to make another move, and so I took my
+eldest son with me, and a young man by the name
+of Abram Henry, and cut out for the Obion. I selected
+a spot when I got there, where I determined
+to settle; and the nearest house to it
+was seven miles, the next nearest was fifteen,
+and so on to twenty. It was a complete wilderness,
+and full of Indians who were hunting. Game
+was plenty of almost every kind, which suited
+me exactly, as I was always fond of hunting.
+The house which was nearest me, and which, as I
+have already stated, was seven miles off, and on
+the different side of the Obion river, belonged to
+a man by the name of Owens; and I started to
+go there. I had taken one horse along, to pack
+our provision, and when I got to the water I hobbled
+him out to graze, until I got back; as there
+was no boat to cross the river in, and it was so<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_148" id="Page_148">[148]</a></span>
+high that it had overflowed all the bottoms and
+low country near it.</p>
+
+<p>We now took water like so many beavers, notwithstanding
+it was mighty cold, and waded on.
+The water would sometimes be up to our necks,
+and at others not so deep; but I went, of course,
+before, and carried a pole, with which I would feel
+along before me, to see how deep it was, and to
+guard against falling into a slough, as there was
+many in our way. When I would come to one,
+I would take out my tomahawk and cut a small
+tree across it, and then go ahead again. Frequently
+my little son would have to swim, even
+where myself and the young man could wade;
+but we worked on till at last we got to the channel
+of the river, which made it about half a mile
+we had waded from where we took water. I
+saw a large tree that had fallen into the river
+from the other side, but it didn't reach across.
+One stood on the same bank where we were, that
+I thought I could fall, so as to reach the other;
+and so at it we went with my tomahawk, cutting
+away till we got it down; and, as good luck
+would have it, it fell right, and made us a way
+that we could pass.</p>
+
+<p>When we got over this, it was still a sea of
+water as far as our eyes could reach. We took<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_149" id="Page_149">[149]</a></span>
+into it again, and went ahead, for about a mile,
+hardly ever seeing a single spot of land, and
+sometimes very deep. At last we come in sight
+of land, which was a very pleasing thing; and
+when we got out, we went but a little way, before
+we came in sight of the house, which was
+more pleasing than ever; for we were wet all
+over, and mighty cold. I felt mighty sorry when
+I would look at my little boy, and see him shaking
+like he had the worst sort of an ague, for
+there was no time for fever then. As we got
+near to the house, we saw Mr. Owens and several
+men that were with him, just starting away.
+They saw us, and stop'd, but looked much astonished
+until we got up to them, and I made myself
+known. The men who were with him
+were the owners of a boat which was the first
+that ever went that far up the Obion river;
+and some hands he had hired to carry it about
+a hundred miles still further up, by water, tho'
+it was only about thirty by land, as the river is
+very crooked.</p>
+
+<p>They all turned back to the house with me,
+where I found Mrs. Owens, a fine, friendly old
+woman; and her kindness to my little boy did
+me ten times as much good as any thing she
+could have done for me, if she had tried her<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_150" id="Page_150">[150]</a></span>
+best. The old gentleman set out his bottle to
+us, and I concluded that if a horn wasn't good
+then, there was no use for its invention. So I
+swig'd off about a half pint, and the young man
+was by no means bashful in such a case; he took
+a strong pull at it too. I then gave my boy some,
+and in a little time we felt pretty well. We dried
+ourselves by the fire, and were asked to go on
+board of the boat that evening. I agreed to do
+so, but left my son with the old lady, and myself
+and my young man went to the boat with
+Mr. Owens and the others. The boat was loaded
+with whiskey, flour, sugar, coffee, salt, castings,
+and other articles suitable for the country;
+and they were to receive five hundred dollars to
+land the load at M'Lemore's Bluff, beside the
+profit they could make on their load. This was
+merely to show that boats could get up to that
+point. We staid all night with them, and had a
+high night of it, as I took steam enough to drive
+out all the cold that was in me, and about three
+times as much more. In the morning we concluded
+to go on with the boat to where a great
+<i>harricane</i> had crossed the river, and blowed all
+the timber down into it. When we got there,
+we found the river was falling fast, and concluded
+we couldn't get through the timber without<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_151" id="Page_151">[151]</a></span>
+more rise; so we drop'd down opposite Mr.
+Owens' again, where they determined to wait for
+more water.</p>
+
+<p>The next day it rained rip-roriously, and the
+river rose pretty considerable, but not enough yet.
+And so I got the boatsmen all to go out with me to
+where I was going to settle, and we slap'd up a
+cabin in little or no time. I got from the boat
+four barrels of meal, and one of salt, and about ten
+gallons of whiskey.</p>
+
+<p>To pay for these, I agreed to go with the boat
+up the river to their landing place. I got also a
+large middling of bacon, and killed a fine deer,
+and left them for my young man and my little
+boy, who were to stay at my cabin till I got back;
+which I expected would be in six or seven days.
+We cut out, and moved up to the harricane, where
+we stop'd for the night. In the morning I started
+about daylight, intending to kill a deer, as I had
+no thought they would get the boat through the
+timber that day. I had gone but a little way before
+I killed a fine buck, and started to go back to
+the boat; but on the way I came on the tracks of a
+large gang of elks, and so I took after them. I had
+followed them only a little distance when I saw
+them, and directly after I saw two large bucks. I
+shot one down, and the other wouldn't leave him;<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_152" id="Page_152">[152]</a></span>
+so I loaded my gun, and shot him down too. I
+hung them up, and went ahead again after my elks.
+I pursued on till after the middle of the day before
+I saw them again; but they took the hint before
+I got in shooting distance, and run off. I still
+pushed on till late in the evening, when I found I
+was about four miles from where I had left the boat,
+and as hungry as a wolf, for I hadn't eaten a bite
+that day.</p>
+
+<p>I started down the edge of the river low grounds,
+giving out the pursuit of my elks, and hadn't gone
+hardly any distance at all, before I saw two more
+bucks, very large fellows too. I took a blizzard
+at one of them, and up he tumbled. The other
+ran off a few jumps and stop'd; and stood there
+till I loaded again, and fired at him. I knock'd
+his trotters from under him, and then I hung
+them both up. I pushed on again; and about
+sunset I saw three other bucks. I down'd with
+one of them, and the other two ran off. I hung
+this one up also, having now killed six that day.
+I then pushed on till I got to the harricane, and
+at the lower edge of it, about where I expected
+the boat was. Here I hollered as hard as I could
+roar, but could get no answer. I fired off my gun,
+and the men on the boat fired one too; but quite
+contrary to my expectation, they had got through<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_153" id="Page_153">[153]</a></span>
+the timber, and were about two miles above me.
+It was now dark, and I had to crawl through
+the fallen timber the best way I could; and if
+the reader don't know it was bad enough, I am
+sure I do. For the vines and briers had grown
+all through it, and so thick, that a good fat coon
+couldn't much more than get along. I got
+through at last, and went on near to where I
+had killed my last deer, and once more fired off
+my gun, which was again answered from the boat,
+which was still a little above me. I moved on as
+fast as I could, but soon came to water, and not
+knowing how deep it was, I halted and hollered
+till they came to me with a skiff. I now got to the
+boat, without further difficulty; but the briers had
+worked on me at such a rate, that I felt like I
+wanted sewing up, all over. I took a pretty stiff
+horn, which soon made me feel much better; but
+I was so tired that I could hardly work my jaws
+to eat.</p>
+
+<p>In the morning, myself and a young man started
+and brought in the first buck I had killed; and
+after breakfast we went and brought in the last
+one. The boat then started, but we again went
+and got the two I had killed just as I turned
+down the river in the evening; and we then
+pushed on and o'ertook the boat, leaving the other<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_154" id="Page_154">[154]</a></span>
+two hanging in the woods, as we had now as much
+as we wanted.</p>
+
+<p>We got up the river very well, but quite
+slowly; and we landed, on the eleventh day, at
+the place the load was to be delivered at. They
+here gave me their skiff, and myself and a young
+man by the name of Flavius Harris, who had determined
+to go and live with me, cut out down
+the river for my cabin, which we reached safely
+enough.</p>
+
+<p>We turned in and cleared a field, and planted
+our corn; but it was so late in the spring, we had
+no time to make rails, and therefore we put no
+fence around our field. There was no stock, however,
+nor any thing else to disturb our corn, except
+the wild <i>varments</i>, and the old serpent himself,
+with a fence to help him, couldn't keep them
+out. I made corn enough to do me, and during
+that spring I killed ten bears, and a great abundance
+of deer. But in all this time, we saw the
+face of no white person in that country, except
+Mr. Owens' family, and a very few passengers,
+who went out there, looking at the country. Indians,
+though, were still plenty enough. Having
+laid by my crap, I went home, which was a distance
+of about a hundred and fifty miles; and
+when I got there, I was met by an order to attend<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_155" id="Page_155">[155]</a></span>
+a call-session of our Legislature. I attended it,
+and served out my time, and then returned, and
+took my family and what little plunder I had,
+and moved to where I had built my cabin, and
+made my crap.</p>
+
+<p>I gathered my corn, and then set out for my
+Fall's hunt. This was in the last of October, 1822.
+I found bear very plenty, and, indeed, all sorts of
+game and wild varments, except buffalo. There
+was none of them. I hunted on till Christmass,
+having supplied my family very well all along
+with wild meat, at which time my powder gave
+out; and I had none either to fire Christmass guns,
+which is very common in that country, or to hunt
+with. I had a brother-in-law who had now moved
+out and settled about six miles west of me, on the
+opposite side of Rutherford's fork of the Obion
+river, and he had brought me a keg of powder,
+but I had never gotten it home. There had just
+been another of Noah's freshes, and the low
+grounds were flooded all over with water. I
+know'd the stream was at least a mile wide which
+I would have to cross, as the water was from hill
+to hill, and yet I determined to go on over in some
+way or other, so as to get my powder. I told this
+to my wife, and she immediately opposed it with
+all her might. I still insisted, telling her we had<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_156" id="Page_156">[156]</a></span>
+no powder for Christmass, and, worse than all, we
+were out of meat. She said, we had as well starve
+as for me to freeze to death or to get drowned, and
+one or the other was certain if I attempted to go.</p>
+
+<p>But I didn't believe the half of this; and so I
+took my woolen wrappers, and a pair of mockasins,
+and put them on, and tied up some dry clothes and
+a pair of shoes and stockings, and started. But I
+didn't before know how much any body could
+suffer and not die. This, and some of my other
+experiments in water, learned me something about
+it, and I therefore relate them.</p>
+
+<p>The snow was about four inches deep when I
+started; and when I got to the water, which was
+only about a quarter of a mile off, it look'd like an
+ocean. I put in, and waded on till I come to the
+channel, where I crossed that on a high log. I then
+took water again, having my gun and all my
+hunting tools along, and waded till I came to a
+deep slough, that was wider than the river itself.
+I had crossed it often on a log; but, behold, when I
+got there, no log was to be seen. I knowed of an
+island in the slough, and a sapling stood on it
+close to the side of that log, which was now entirely
+under water. I knowed further, that the
+water was about eight or ten feet deep under the
+log, and I judged it to be about three feet deep<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_157" id="Page_157">[157]</a></span>
+over it. After studying a little what I should do,
+I determined to cut a forked sapling, which stood
+near me, so as to lodge it against the one that
+stood on the island, in which I succeeded very
+well. I then cut me a pole, and crawled along on
+my sapling till I got to the one it was lodged
+against, which was about six feet above the water.
+I then felt about with my pole till I found the log,
+which was just about as deep under the water as I
+had judged. I then crawled back and got my
+gun, which I had left at the stump of the sapling I
+had cut, and again made my way to the place of
+lodgement, and then climb'd down the other sapling
+so as to get on the log. I then felt my way
+along with my feet, in the water, about waist deep,
+but it was a mighty ticklish business. However,
+I got over, and by this time I had very little feeling
+in my feet and legs, as I had been all the time
+in the water, except what time I was crossing
+the high log over the river, and climbing my lodged
+sapling.</p>
+
+<p>I went but a short distance before I came to
+another slough, over which there was a log, but
+it was floating on the water. I thought I could
+walk it, and so I mounted on it; but when I had
+got about the middle of the deep water, somehow
+or somehow else, it turned over, and in I<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_158" id="Page_158">[158]</a></span>
+went up to my head I waded out of this deep
+water, and went ahead till I came to the high-land,
+where I stop'd to pull off my wet clothes, and put
+on the others, which I had held up with my gun,
+above the water, when I fell in. I got them on,
+but my flesh had no feeling in it, I was so cold.
+I tied up the wet ones, and hung them up in a bush.
+I now thought I would run, so as to warm myself
+a little, but I couldn't raise a trot for some time;
+indeed, I couldn't step more than half the length
+of my foot. After a while I got better, and went
+on five miles to the house of my brother-in-law,
+having not even smelt fire from the time I started.
+I got there late in the evening, and he was much
+astonished at seeing me at such a time. I staid
+all night, and the next morning was most piercing
+cold, and so they persuaded me not to go
+home that day. I agreed, and turned out and
+killed him two deer; but the weather still got
+worse and colder, instead of better. I staid that
+night, and in the morning they still insisted I
+couldn't get home. I knowed the water would
+be frozen over, but not hard enough to bear me,
+and so I agreed to stay that day. I went out hunting
+again, and pursued a big <i>he-bear</i> all day, but
+didn't kill him. The next morning was bitter
+cold, but I knowed my family was without meat,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_159" id="Page_159">[159]</a></span>
+and I determined to get home to them, or die
+a-trying.</p>
+
+<p>I took my keg of powder, and all my hunting
+tools, and cut out. When I got to the water, it
+was a sheet of ice as far as I could see. I put on
+to it, but hadn't got far before it broke through
+with me; and so I took out my tomahawk, and
+broke my way along before me for a considerable
+distance. At last I got to where the ice would
+bear me for a short distance, and I mounted on it,
+and went ahead; but it soon broke in again, and
+I had to wade on till I came to my floating log.
+I found it so tight this time, that I know'd it
+couldn't give me another fall, as it was frozen in
+with the ice. I crossed over it without much
+difficulty, and worked along till I got to my
+lodged sapling, and my log under the water.
+The swiftness of the current prevented the water
+from freezing over it, and so I had to wade, just
+as I did when I crossed it before. When I got
+to my sapling, I left my gun and climbed out with
+my powder keg first, and then went back and got
+my gun. By this time I was nearly frozen to
+death, but I saw all along before me, where the
+ice had been fresh broke, and I thought it must
+be a bear straggling about in the water. I, therefore,
+fresh primed my gun, and, cold as I was, I<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_160" id="Page_160">[160]</a></span>
+was determined to make war on him, if we met.
+But I followed the trail till it led me home, and
+I then found it had been made by my young
+man that lived with me, who had been sent by
+my distressed wife to see, if he could, what had
+become of me, for they all believed that I was dead.
+When I got home I was'nt quite dead, but mighty
+nigh it; but I had my powder, and that was what
+I went for.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_161" id="Page_161">[161]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+<h2>CHAPTER XII.</h2>
+
+
+<p>That night there fell a heavy rain, and it
+turned to a sleet. In the morning all hands
+turned out hunting. My young man, and a
+brother-in-law who had lately settled close by
+me, went down the river to hunt for turkeys;
+but I was for larger game. I told them, I had
+dreamed the night before of having a hard fight
+with a big black nigger, and I knowed it was a
+sign that I was to have a battle with a bear; for
+in a bear country, I never know'd such a dream
+to fail. So I started to go up above the harricane,
+determined to have a bear. I had two pretty
+good dogs, and an old hound, all of which I took
+along. I had gone about six miles up the river,
+and it was then about four miles across to the
+main Obion; so I determined to strike across to
+that, as I had found nothing yet to kill. I got on
+to the river, and turned down it; but the sleet
+was still getting worse and worse. The bushes
+were all bent down, and locked together with ice,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_162" id="Page_162">[162]</a></span>
+so that it was almost impossible to get along. In
+a little time my dogs started a large gang of old
+turkey goblers, and I killed two of them, of the
+biggest sort. I shouldered them up, and moved
+on, until I got through the harricane, when I was
+so tired that I laid my goblers down to rest, as they
+were confounded heavy, and I was mighty tired.
+While I was resting, my old hound went to a log,
+and smelt it awhile, and then raised his eyes toward
+the sky, and cried out. Away he went,
+and my other dogs with him, and I shouldered up
+my turkeys again, and followed on as hard as I
+could drive. They were soon out of sight, and
+in a very little time I heard them begin to bark.
+When I got to them, they were barking up a tree,
+but there was no game there. I concluded it had
+been a turkey, and that it had flew away.</p>
+
+<p>When they saw me coming, away they went
+again; and, after a little time, began to bark as
+before. When I got near them, I found they
+were barking up the wrong tree again, as there
+was no game there. They served me in this way
+three or four times, until I was so infernal mad,
+that I determined, if I could get near enough, to
+shoot the old hound at least. With this intention
+I pushed on the harder, till I came to the edge of
+an open parara, and looking on before my dogs, I<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_163" id="Page_163">[163]</a></span>
+saw in and about the biggest bear that ever was
+seen in America. He looked, at the distance he
+was from me, like a large black bull. My dogs
+were afraid to attack him, and that was the reason
+they had stop'd so often, that I might overtake
+them. They were now almost up with him, and
+I took my goblers from my back and hung them
+up in a sapling, and broke like a quarter horse
+after my bear, for the sight of him had put new
+springs in me. I soon got near to them, but they
+were just getting into a roaring thicket, and so I
+couldn't run through it, but had to pick my way
+along, and had close work even at that.</p>
+
+<p>In a little time I saw the bear climbing up a
+large black oak-tree, and I crawled on till I got
+within about eighty yards of him. He was setting
+with his breast to me; and so I put fresh priming
+in my gun, and fired at him. At this he raised
+one of his paws and snorted loudly. I loaded
+again as quick as I could, and fired as near the
+same place in his breast as possible. At the
+crack of my gun here he came tumbling down;
+and the moment he touched the ground, I heard
+one of my best dogs cry out. I took my tomahawk
+in one hand, and my big butcher-knife in
+the other, and run up within four or five paces of
+him, at which he let my dog go, and fixed his<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_164" id="Page_164">[164]</a></span>
+eyes on me. I got back in all sorts of a hurry,
+for I know'd if he got hold of me, he would hug
+me altogether too close for comfort. I went to
+my gun and hastily loaded her again, and shot
+him the third time, which killed him good.</p>
+
+<p>I now began to think about getting him home,
+but I didn't know how far it was. So I left him
+and started; and in order to find him again, I
+would blaze a sapling every little distance, which
+would show me the way back. I continued this
+till I got within about a mile of home, for there I
+know'd very well where I was, and that I could
+easily find the way back to my blazes. When I got
+home, I took my brother-in-law, and my young
+man, and four horses, and went back. We got
+there just before dark, and struck up a fire, and
+commenced butchering my bear. It was some
+time in the night before we finished it; and I
+can assert, on my honour, that I believe he would
+have weighed six hundred pounds. It was the
+second largest I ever saw. I killed one, a few
+years after, that weighed six hundred and seventeen
+pounds. I now felt fully compensated for
+my sufferings in going after my powder; and well
+satisfied that a dog might sometimes be doing a
+good business, even when he seemed to be <i>barking
+up the wrong tree</i>. We got our meat home,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_165" id="Page_165">[165]</a></span>
+and I had the pleasure to know that we now had
+plenty, and that of the best; and I continued
+through the winter to supply my family abundantly
+with bear-meat and venison from the
+woods.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_166" id="Page_166">[166]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+<h2>CHAPTER XIII.</h2>
+
+
+<p>I had on hand a great many skins, and so, in the
+month of February, I packed a horse with them,
+and taking my eldest son along with me, cut out
+for a little town called Jackson, situated about
+forty miles off. We got there well enough, and
+I sold my skins, and bought me some coffee, and
+sugar, powder, lead, and salt. I packed them all
+up in readiness for a start, which I intended to
+make early the next morning. Morning came,
+but I concluded, before I started, I would go and
+take a horn with some of my old fellow-soldiers
+that I had met with at Jackson.</p>
+
+<p>I did so; and while we were engaged in this,
+I met with three candidates for the Legislature;
+a Doctor Butler, who was, by marriage, a nephew
+to General Jackson, a Major Lynn, and a
+Mr. McEver, all first-rate men. We all took a
+horn together, and some person present said to me,
+"Crockett, you must offer for the Legislature." I
+told him I lived at least forty miles from any<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_167" id="Page_167">[167]</a></span>
+white settlement, and had no thought of becoming
+a candidate at that time. So we all parted,
+and I and my little boy went on home.</p>
+
+<p>It was about a week or two after this, that a
+man came to my house, and told me I was a candidate.
+I told him not so. But he took out a
+newspaper from his pocket, and show'd me
+where I was announced. I said to my wife that
+this was all a burlesque on me, but I was determined
+to make it cost the man who had put
+it there at least the value of the printing, and of
+the fun he wanted at my expense. So I hired
+a young man to work in my place on my farm,
+and turned out myself electioneering. I hadn't
+been out long, before I found the people began
+to talk very much about the bear hunter, the
+man from the cane; and the three gentlemen,
+who I have already named, soon found it necessary
+to enter into an agreement to have a
+sort of caucus at their March court, to determine
+which of them was the strongest, and
+the other two was to withdraw and support
+him. As the court came on, each one of them
+spread himself, to secure the nomination; but
+it fell on Dr. Butler, and the rest backed out.
+The doctor was a clever fellow, and I have
+often said he was the most talented man I ever<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_168" id="Page_168">[168]</a></span>
+run against for any office. His being related to
+Gen'l. Jackson also helped him on very much; but
+I was in for it, and I was determined to push
+ahead and go through, or stick. Their meeting
+was held in Madison county, which was the
+strongest in the representative district, which was
+composed of eleven counties, and they seemed
+bent on having the member from there.</p>
+
+<p>At this time Col. Alexander was a candidate for
+Congress, and attending one of his public meetings
+one day, I walked to where he was treating the
+people, and he gave me an introduction to several
+of his acquaintances, and informed them that I was
+out electioneering. In a little time my competitor,
+Doctor Butler, came along; he passed by
+without noticing me, and I suppose, indeed, he did
+not recognise me. But I hailed him, as I was for
+all sorts of fun; and when he turned to me, I said
+to him, "Well, doctor, I suppose they have weighed
+you out to me; but I should like to know why
+they fixed your election for <i>March</i> instead of <i>August</i>?
+This is," said I, "a branfire new way of doing
+business, if a caucus is to make a representative
+for the people!" He now discovered who I was,
+and cried out, "D&mdash;n it, Crockett, is that you?"&mdash;"Be
+sure it is," said I, "but I don't want it understood
+that I have come electioneering. I have just<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_169" id="Page_169">[169]</a></span>
+crept out of the cane, to see what discoveries I could
+make among the white folks." I told him that
+when I set out electioneering, I would go prepared
+to put every man on as good footing when I left
+him as I found him on. I would therefore have
+me a large buckskin hunting-shirt made, with a
+couple of pockets holding about a peck each;
+and that in one I would carry a great big
+twist of tobacco, and in the other my bottle of liquor;
+for I knowed when I met a man and offered
+him a dram, he would throw out his quid of tobacco
+to take one, and after he had taken his horn,
+I would out with my twist and give him another
+chaw. And in this way he would not be worse
+off than when I found him; and I would be sure
+to leave him in a first-rate good humour. He said
+I could beat him electioneering all hollow. I told
+him I would give him better evidence of that before
+August, notwithstanding he had many advantages
+over me, and particularly in the way of money;
+but I told him that I would go on the products
+of the country; that I had industrious children,
+and the best of coon dogs, and they would
+hunt every night till midnight to support my election;
+and when the coon fur wa'n't good, I would
+myself go a wolfing, and shoot down a wolf, and
+skin his head, and his scalp would be good to me<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_170" id="Page_170">[170]</a></span>
+for three dollars, in our state treasury money; and
+in this way I would get along on the big string.
+He stood like he was both amused and astonished,
+and the whole crowd was in a roar of laughter.
+From this place I returned home, leaving the people
+in a first-rate way; and I was sure I would
+do a good business among them. At any rate, I
+was determined to stand up to my lick-log, salt or
+no salt.</p>
+
+<p>In a short time there came out two other candidates,
+a Mr. Shaw and a Mr. Brown. We all ran
+the race through; and when the election was over,
+it turned out that I beat them all by a majority of
+two hundred and forty-seven votes, and was again
+returned as a member of the Legislature from a
+new region of the country, without losing a session.
+This reminded me of the old saying&mdash;"A
+fool for luck, and a poor man for children."</p>
+
+<p>I now served two years in that body from my
+new district, which was the years 1823 and '24.
+At the session of 1823, I had a small trial of my
+independence, and whether I would forsake principle
+for party, or for the purpose of following
+after big men.</p>
+
+<p>The term of Col. John Williams had expired, who
+was a senator in Congress from the state of Tennessee.
+He was a candidate for another election,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_171" id="Page_171">[171]</a></span>
+and was opposed by Pleasant M. Miller, Esq.,
+who, it was believed, would not be able to beat
+the colonel. Some two or three others were
+spoken of, but it was at last concluded that the only
+man who could beat him was the present "government,"
+General Jackson. So, a few days before
+the election was to come on, he was sent for
+to come and run for the senate. He was then in
+nomination for the presidency; but sure enough
+he came, and did run as the opponent of Colonel
+Williams, and beat him too, but not by my vote.
+The vote was, for Jackson, <i>thirty-five</i>; for Williams,
+<i>twenty-five</i>. I thought the colonel had
+honestly discharged his duty, and even the mighty
+name of Jackson couldn't make me vote against
+him.</p>
+
+<p>But voting against the old chief was found a
+mighty up-hill business to all of them except myself.
+I never would, nor never did, acknowledge
+I had voted wrong; and I am more certain now
+that I was right than ever.</p>
+
+<p>I told the people it was the best vote I ever
+gave; that I had supported the public interest, and
+cleared my conscience in giving it, instead of
+gratifying the private ambition of a man.</p>
+
+<p>I let the people know as early as then, that I<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_172" id="Page_172">[172]</a></span>
+wouldn't take a collar around my neck with the
+letters engraved on it,</p>
+
+<div class="bbox bl br extraspacetop">
+MY DOG.
+<p class="smcap extraspace3top right">Andrew Jackson.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>During these two sessions of the Legislature, nothing
+else turned up which I think it worth while
+to mention; and, indeed, I am fearful that I am
+too particular about many small matters; but if so,
+my apology is, that I want the world to understand
+my true history, and how I worked along
+to rise from a cane-brake to my present station
+in life.</p>
+
+<p>Col. Alexander was the representative in Congress
+of the district I lived in, and his vote on the
+tariff law of 1824 gave a mighty heap of dissatisfaction
+to his people. They therefore began to
+talk pretty strong of running me for Congress
+against him. At last I was called on by a good
+many to be a candidate. I told the people that I
+couldn't stand that; it was a step above my knowledge,
+and I know'd nothing about Congress
+matters.</p>
+
+<p>However, I was obliged to agree to run, and myself
+and two other gentlemen came out. But Providence<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_173" id="Page_173">[173]</a></span>
+was a little against two of us this hunt, for it
+was the year that cotton brought twenty-five dollars
+a hundred; and so Colonel Alexander would get
+up and tell the people, it was all the good effect of
+this tariff law; that it had raised the price of their
+cotton, and that it would raise the price of every
+thing else they made to sell. I might as well have
+sung <i>salms</i> over a dead horse, as to try to make
+the people believe otherwise; for they knowed
+their cotton had raised, sure enough, and if the
+colonel hadn't done it, they didn't know what
+had. So he rather made a mash of me this time,
+as he beat me exactly <i>two</i> votes, as they counted
+the polls, though I have always believed that many
+other things had been as fairly done as that same
+count.</p>
+
+<p>He went on, and served out his term, and at
+the end of it cotton was down to <i>six</i> or <i>eight</i>
+dollars a hundred again; and I concluded I would
+try him once more, and see how it would go
+with cotton at the common price, and so I became
+a candidate.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_174" id="Page_174">[174]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+<h2>CHAPTER XIV.</h2>
+
+
+<p>But the reader, I expect, would have no objection
+to know a little about my employment during
+the two years while my competitor was in Congress.
+In this space I had some pretty tuff times,
+and will relate some few things that happened to
+me. So here goes, as the boy said when he run
+by himself.</p>
+
+<p>In the fall of 1825, I concluded I would build
+two large boats, and load them with pipe staves
+for market. So I went down to the lake, which
+was about twenty-five miles from where I lived,
+and hired some hands to assist me, and went to
+work; some at boat building, and others to getting
+staves. I worked on with my hands till the
+bears got fat, and then I turned out to hunting, to
+lay in a supply of meat. I soon killed and salted
+down as many as were necessary for my family;
+but about this time one of my old neighbours, who
+had settled down on the lake about twenty-five
+miles from me, came to my house and told me<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_175" id="Page_175">[175]</a></span>
+he wanted me to go down and kill some bears
+about in his parts. He said they were extremely
+fat, and very plenty. I know'd that when they
+were fat, they were easily taken, for a fat bear
+can't run fast or long. But I asked a bear no favours,
+no way, further than civility, for I now
+had <i>eight</i> large dogs, and as fierce as painters;
+so that a bear stood no chance at all to get away
+from them. So I went home with him, and then
+went on down towards the Mississippi, and commenced
+hunting.</p>
+
+<p>We were out two weeks, and in that time killed
+fifteen bears. Having now supplied my friend
+with plenty of meat, I engaged occasionally again
+with my hands in our boat building, and getting
+staves. But I at length couldn't stand it any
+longer without another hunt. So I concluded to
+take my little son, and cross over the lake, and
+take a hunt there. We got over, and that evening
+turned out and killed three bears, in little or no
+time. The next morning we drove up four forks,
+and made a sort of scaffold, on which we salted
+up our meat, so as to have it out of the reach of
+the wolves, for as soon as we would leave our
+camp, they would take possession. We had just
+eat our breakfast, when a company of hunters
+came to our camp, who had fourteen dogs, but all<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_176" id="Page_176">[176]</a></span>
+so poor, that when they would bark they would
+almost have to lean up against a tree and take
+a rest. I told them their dogs couldn't run in
+smell of a bear, and they had better stay at my
+camp, and feed them on the bones I had cut out
+of my meat. I left them there, and cut out; but
+I hadn't gone far, when my dogs took a first-rate
+start after a very large fat old <i>he-bear</i>, which run
+right plump towards my camp. I pursued on,
+but my other hunters had heard my dogs coming,
+and met them, and killed the bear before I got up
+with him. I gave him to them, and cut out again
+for a creek called Big Clover, which wa'n't very
+far off. Just as I got there, and was entering a
+cane brake, my dogs all broke and went ahead,
+and, in a little time, they raised a fuss in the cane,
+and seemed to be going every way. I listened a
+while, and found my dogs was in two companies,
+and that both was in a snorting fight. I sent my
+little son to one, and I broke for t'other. I got to
+mine first, and found my dogs had a two-year-old
+bear down, a-wooling away on him; so I just
+took out my big butcher, and went up and slap'd
+it into him, and killed him without shooting.
+There was five of the dogs in my company. In
+a short time, I heard my little son fire at his bear;
+when I went to him he had killed it too. He<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_177" id="Page_177">[177]</a></span>
+had two dogs in his team. Just at this moment
+we heard my other dog barking a short distance
+off, and all the rest immediately broke to him.
+We pushed on too, and when we got there, we
+found he had still a larger bear than either of them
+we had killed, treed by himself. We killed that
+one also, which made three we had killed in less
+than half an hour. We turned in and butchered
+them, and then started to hunt for water, and a
+good place to camp. But we had no sooner
+started, than our dogs took a start after another
+one, and away they went like a thunder-gust, and
+was out of hearing in a minute. We followed the
+way they had gone for some time, but at length
+we gave up the hope of finding them, and turned
+back. As we were going back, I came to where
+a poor fellow was grubbing, and he looked like
+the very picture of hard times. I asked him
+what he was doing away there in the woods by
+himself? He said he was grubbing for a man who
+intended to settle there; and the reason why he
+did it was, that he had no meat for his family,
+and he was working for a little.</p>
+
+<p>I was mighty sorry for the poor fellow, for
+it was not only a hard, but a very slow way to
+get meat for a hungry family; so I told him if he
+would go with me, I would give him more meat<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_178" id="Page_178">[178]</a></span>
+than he could get by grubbing in a month. I intended
+to supply him with meat, and also to get
+him to assist my little boy in packing in and salting
+up my bears. He had never seen a bear killed
+in his life. I told him I had six killed then,
+and my dogs were hard after another. He went
+off to his little cabin, which was a short distance
+in the brush, and his wife was very anxious he
+should go with me. So we started and went to
+where I had left my three bears, and made a camp.
+We then gathered my meat and salted, and scaffled
+it, as I had done the other. Night now came
+on, but no word from my dogs yet. I afterwards
+found they had treed the bear about five miles
+off, near to a man's house, and had barked at it
+the whole enduring night. Poor fellows! many
+a time they looked for me, and wondered why I
+didn't come, for they knowed there was no mistake
+in me, and I know'd they were as good as
+ever fluttered. In the morning, as soon as it was
+light enough to see, the man took his gun and
+went to them, and shot the bear, and killed it. My
+dogs, however, wouldn't have any thing to say to
+this stranger; so they left him, and came early in
+the morning back to me.</p>
+
+<p>We got our breakfast, and cut out again; and
+we killed four large and very fat bears that day.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_179" id="Page_179">[179]</a></span>
+We hunted out the week, and in that time we
+killed seventeen, all of them first-rate. When
+we closed our hunt, I gave the man over a
+thousand weight of fine fat bear-meat, which
+pleased him mightily, and made him feel as
+rich as a Jew. I saw him the next fall, and he
+told me he had plenty of meat to do him the
+whole year from his week's hunt. My son and
+me now went home. This was the week between
+Christmass and New-year that we made this hunt.</p>
+
+<p>When I got home, one of my neighbours was
+out of meat, and wanted me to go back, and
+let him go with me, to take another hunt. I
+couldn't refuse; but I told him I was afraid the
+bear had taken to house by that time, for after
+they get very fat in the fall and early part of the
+winter, they go into their holes, in large hollow
+trees, or into hollow logs, or their cane-houses,
+or the harricanes; and lie there till spring, like
+frozen snakes. And one thing about this will
+seem mighty strange to many people.  From
+about the first of January to about the last of
+April, these varments lie in their holes altogether.
+In all that time they have no food to eat; and yet
+when they come out, they are not an ounce lighter
+than when they went to house. I don't know the
+cause of this, and still I know it is a fact; and I<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_180" id="Page_180">[180]</a></span>
+leave it for others who have more learning than
+myself to account for it. They have not a particle
+of food with them, but they just lie and suck the
+bottom of their paw all the time. I have killed
+many of them in their trees, which enables me to
+speak positively on this subject. However, my
+neighbour, whose name was McDaniel, and my
+little son and me, went on down to the lake to
+my second camp, where I had killed my seventeen
+bears the week before, and turned out to hunting.
+But we hunted hard all day without getting a single
+start. We had carried but little provisions with
+us, and the next morning was entirely out of meat.
+I sent my son about three miles off, to the house
+of an old friend, to get some. The old gentleman
+was much pleased to hear I was hunting in those
+parts, for the year before the bears had killed a
+great many of his hogs. He was that day killing
+his bacon hogs, and so he gave my son some meat,
+and sent word to me that I must come in to his
+house that evening, that he would have plenty of
+feed for my dogs, and some accommodations for
+ourselves; but before my son got back, we had
+gone out hunting, and in a large cane brake my
+dogs found a big bear in a cane-house, which he
+had fixed for his winter-quarters, as they sometimes
+do.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_181" id="Page_181">[181]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>When my lead dog found him, and raised
+the yell, all the rest broke to him, but none of
+them entered his house until we got up. I encouraged
+my dogs, and they knowed me so well,
+that I could have made them seize the old serpent
+himself, with all his horns and heads, and cloven
+foot and ugliness into the bargain, if he would
+only have come to light, so that they could have
+seen him. They bulged in, and in an instant the
+bear followed them out, and I told my friend to
+shoot him, as he was mighty wrathy to kill a bear.
+He did so, and killed him prime. We carried him
+to our camp, by which time my son had returned;
+and after we got our dinners we packed up, and
+cut for the house of my old friend, whose name
+was Davidson.</p>
+
+<p>We got there, and staid with him that night;
+and the next morning, having salted up our meat,
+we left it with him, and started to take a hunt between
+the Obion lake and the Red-foot lake; as
+there had been a dreadful harricane, which passed
+between them, and I was sure there must be a
+heap of bears in the fallen timber. We had gone
+about five miles without seeing any sign at all;
+but at length we got on some high cany ridges,
+and, as we rode along, I saw a hole in a large
+black oak, and on examining more closely, I discovered<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_182" id="Page_182">[182]</a></span>
+that a bear had clomb the tree. I could
+see his tracks going up, but none coming down,
+and so I was sure he was in there. A person who is
+acquainted with bear-hunting, can tell easy enough
+when the varment is in the hollow; for as they
+go up they don't slip a bit, but as they come down
+they make long scratches with their nails.</p>
+
+<p>My friend was a little ahead of me, but I called
+him back, and told him there was a bear in that
+tree, and I must have him out. So we lit from
+our horses, and I found a small tree which I
+thought I could fall so as to lodge against my bear
+tree, and we fell to work chopping it with our
+tomahawks. I intended, when we lodged the tree
+against the other, to let my little son go up, and
+look into the hole, for he could climb like a squirrel.
+We had chop'd on a little time and stop'd to
+rest, when I heard my dogs barking mighty severe
+at some distance from us, and I told my friend
+I knowed they had a bear; for it is the nature
+of a dog, when he finds you are hunting bears,
+to hunt for nothing else; he becomes fond of the
+meat, and considers other game as "not worth a
+notice," as old Johnson said of the devil.</p>
+
+<p>We concluded to leave our tree a bit, and went
+to my dogs, and when we got there, sure enough
+they had an eternal great big fat bear up a tree,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_183" id="Page_183">[183]</a></span>
+just ready for shooting. My friend again petitioned
+me for liberty to shoot this one also. I had
+a little rather not, as the bear was so big, but I
+couldn't refuse; and so he blazed away, and down
+came the old fellow like some great log had fell.
+I now missed one of my dogs, the same that I before
+spoke of as having treed the bear by himself
+sometime before, when I had started the three in
+the cane break. I told my friend that my missing
+dog had a bear somewhere, just as sure as fate; so
+I left them to butcher the one we had just killed,
+and I went up on a piece of high ground to listen
+for my dog. I heard him barking with all his
+might some distance off, and I pushed ahead for
+him. My other dogs hearing him broke to him,
+and when I got there, sure enough again he had
+another bear ready treed; if he hadn't, I wish
+I may be shot. I fired on him, and brought
+him down; and then went back, and help'd
+finish butchering the one at which I had left
+my friend. We then packed both to our tree
+where we had left my boy. By this time, the little
+fellow had cut the tree down that we intended
+to lodge, but it fell the wrong way; he had then
+feather'd in on the big tree, to cut that, and had
+found that it was nothing but a shell on the outside,
+and all doted in the middle, as too many of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_184" id="Page_184">[184]</a></span>
+our big men are in these days, having only an outside
+appearance. My friend and my son cut away
+on it, and I went off about a hundred yards with
+my dogs to keep them from running under the
+tree when it should fall. On looking back at the
+hole, I saw the bear's head out of it, looking down
+at them as they were cutting. I hollered to them
+to look up, and they did so; and McDaniel catched
+up his gun, but by this time the bear was out,
+and coming down the tree. He fired at it, and as
+soon as it touch'd ground the dogs were all round
+it, and they had a roll-and-tumble fight to the foot
+of the hill, where they stop'd him. I ran up, and
+putting my gun against the bear, fired and killed
+him. We now had three, and so we made our
+scaffold and salted them up.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_185" id="Page_185">[185]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+<h2>CHAPTER XV.</h2>
+
+
+<p>In the morning I left my son at the camp, and
+we started on towards the harricane; and when
+we had went about a mile, we started a very large
+bear, but we got along mighty slow on account of
+the cracks in the earth occasioned by the earthquakes.
+We, however, made out to keep in hearing
+of the dogs for about three miles, and then
+we come to the harricane. Here we had to quit
+our horses, as old Nick himself couldn't have got
+through it without sneaking it along in the form
+that he put on, to make a fool of our old grandmother
+Eve. By this time several of my dogs
+had got tired and come back; but we went ahead
+on foot for some little time in the harricane, when
+we met a bear coming straight to us, and not
+more than twenty or thirty yards off. I started
+my tired dogs after him, and McDaniel pursued
+them, and I went on to where my other dogs
+were. I had seen the track of the bear they were
+after, and I knowed he was a screamer. I followed<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_186" id="Page_186">[186]</a></span>
+on to about the middle of the harricane;
+but my dogs pursued him so close, that they made
+him climb an old stump about twenty feet high.
+I got in shooting distance of him and fired, but
+I was all over in such a flutter from fatigue and
+running, that I couldn't hold steady; but, however,
+I broke his shoulder, and he fell. I run up
+and loaded my gun as quick as possible, and shot
+him again and killed him. When I went to take
+out my knife to butcher him, I found I had lost
+it in coming through the harricane. The vines
+and briers was so thick that I would sometimes
+have to get down and crawl like a varment to get
+through at all; and a vine had, as I supposed,
+caught in the handle and pulled it out. While I
+was standing and studying what to do, my friend
+came to me. He had followed my trail through
+the harricane, and had found my knife, which was
+mighty good news to me; as a hunter hates the
+worst in the world to lose a good dog, or any
+part of his hunting-tools. I now left McDaniel
+to butcher the bear, and I went after our horses,
+and brought them as near as the nature of case
+would allow. I then took our bags, and went back
+to where he was; and when we had skin'd the
+bear, we fleeced off the fat and carried it to our
+horses at several loads. We then packed it up<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_187" id="Page_187">[187]</a></span>
+on our horses, and had a heavy pack of it on
+each one. We now started and went on till about
+sunset, when I concluded we must be near our
+camp; so I hollered and my son answered me,
+and we moved on in the direction to the camp.
+We had gone but a little way when I heard my
+dogs make a warm start again; and I jumped
+down from my horse and gave him up to my
+friend, and told him I would follow them. He
+went on to the camp, and I went ahead after my
+dogs with all my might for a considerable distance,
+till at last night came on. The woods were
+very rough and hilly, and all covered over with
+cane.</p>
+
+<p>I now was compel'd to move on more slowly;
+and was frequently falling over logs, and into the
+cracks made by the earthquakes, so that I was
+very much afraid I would break my gun. However
+I went on about three miles, when I came to
+a good big creek, which I waded. It was very
+cold, and the creek was about knee-deep; but I
+felt no great inconvenience from it just then, as I
+was all over wet with sweat from running, and I
+felt hot enough. After I got over this creek and
+out of the cane, which was very thick on all our
+creeks, I listened for my dogs. I found they had
+either treed or brought the bear to a stop, as they<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_188" id="Page_188">[188]</a></span>
+continued barking in the same place. I pushed on
+as near in the direction to the noise as I could, till
+I found the hill was too steep for me to climb,
+and so I backed and went down the creek some
+distance till I came to a hollow, and then took up
+that, till I come to a place where I could climb up
+the hill. It was mighty dark, and was difficult to
+see my way or any thing else. When I got up
+the hill, I found I had passed the dogs; and so I
+turned and went to them. I found, when I got
+there, they had treed the bear in a large forked
+poplar, and it was setting in the fork.</p>
+
+<p>I could see the lump, but not plain enough to
+shoot with any certainty, as there was no moonlight;
+and so I set in to hunting for some dry
+brush to make me a light; but I could find none,
+though I could find that the ground was torn
+mightily to pieces by the cracks.</p>
+
+<p>At last I thought I could shoot by guess, and kill
+him; so I pointed as near the lump as I could, and
+fired away. But the bear didn't come he only
+clomb up higher, and got out on a limb, which
+helped me to see him better. I now loaded up
+again and fired, but this time he didn't move at
+all. I commenced loading for a third fire, but the
+first thing I knowed, the bear was down among
+my dogs, and they were fighting all around me.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_189" id="Page_189">[189]</a></span>
+I had my big butcher in my belt, and I had a pair
+of dressed buckskin breeches on. So I took out
+my knife, and stood, determined, if he should get
+hold of me, to defend myself in the best way I
+could. I stood there for some time, and could
+now and then see a white dog I had, but the rest
+of them, and the bear, which were dark coloured,
+I couldn't see at all, it was so miserable dark.
+They still fought around me, and sometimes
+within three feet of me; but, at last, the bear got
+down into one of the cracks, that the earthquakes
+had made in the ground, about four feet deep, and
+I could tell the biting end of him by the hollering
+of my dogs. So I took my gun and pushed the
+muzzle of it about, till I thought I had it against
+the main part of his body, and fired; but it happened
+to be only the fleshy part of his foreleg.
+With this, he jumped out of the crack, and he
+and the dogs had another hard fight around me,
+as before.  At last, however, they forced him
+back into the crack again, as he was when I had
+shot.</p>
+
+<p>I had laid down my gun in the dark, and I now
+began to hunt for it; and, while hunting, I got
+hold of a pole, and I concluded I would punch
+him awhile with that. I did so, and when I
+would punch him, the dogs would jump in on<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_190" id="Page_190">[190]</a></span>
+him, when he would bite them badly, and they
+would jump out again. I concluded, as he would
+take punching so patiently, it might be that he
+would lie still enough for me to get down in the
+crack, and feel slowly along till I could find the
+right place to give him a dig with my butcher.
+So I got down, and my dogs got in before him
+and kept his head towards them, till I got along
+easily up to him; and placing my hand on his
+rump, felt for his shoulder, just behind which
+I intended to stick him. I made a lounge with
+my long knife, and fortunately stuck him right
+through the heart; at which he just sank down,
+and I crawled out in a hurry. In a little time
+my dogs all come out too, and seemed satisfied,
+which was the way they always had of telling
+me that they had finished him.</p>
+
+<p>I suffered very much that night with cold, as
+my leather breeches, and every thing else I had
+on, was wet and frozen. But I managed to get
+my bear out of this crack after several hard trials,
+and so I butchered him, and laid down to try to
+sleep. But my fire was very bad, and I couldn't
+find any thing that would burn well to make it
+any better; and I concluded I should freeze, if I
+didn't warm myself in some way by exercise.
+So I got up, and hollered a while, and then I<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_191" id="Page_191">[191]</a></span>
+would just jump up and down with all my might,
+and throw myself into all sorts of motions. But
+all this wouldn't do; for my blood was now
+getting cold, and the chills coming all over me.
+I was so tired, too, that I could hardly walk; but I
+thought I would do the best I could to save my
+life, and then, if I died, nobody would be to
+blame. So I went to a tree about two feet through,
+and not a limb on it for thirty feet, and I would
+climb up it to the limbs, and then lock my arms
+together around it, and slide down to the bottom
+again. This would make the insides of my legs
+and arms feel mighty warm and good. I continued
+this till daylight in the morning, and how often I
+clomb up my tree and slid down I don't know,
+but I reckon at least a hundred times.</p>
+
+<p>In the morning I got my bear hung up so as to
+be safe, and then set out to hunt for my camp. I
+found it after a while, and McDaniel and my son
+were very much rejoiced to see me get back, for
+they were about to give me up for lost. We got
+our breakfasts, and then secured our meat by
+building a high scaffold, and covering it over.
+We had no fear of its spoiling, for the weather was
+so cold that it couldn't.</p>
+
+<p>We now started after my other bear, which had
+caused me so much trouble and suffering; and before<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_192" id="Page_192">[192]</a></span>
+we got him, we got a start after another, and
+took him also. We went on to the creek I had
+crossed the night before and camped, and then
+went to where my bear was, that I had killed in
+the crack. When we examined the place, McDaniel
+said he wouldn't have gone into it, as I did,
+for all the bears in the woods.</p>
+
+<p>We took the meat down to our camp and salted
+it, and also the last one we had killed; intending,
+in the morning, to make a hunt in the harricane
+again.</p>
+
+<p>We prepared for resting that night, and I can
+assure the reader I was in need of it. We had
+laid down by our fire, and about ten o'clock there
+came a most terrible earthquake, which shook the
+earth so, that we were rocked about like we had
+been in a cradle. We were very much alarmed;
+for though we were accustomed to feel earthquakes,
+we were now right in the region which
+had been torn to pieces by them in 1812, and we
+thought it might take a notion and swallow us up,
+like the big fish did Jonah.</p>
+
+<p>In the morning we packed up and moved to the
+harricane, where we made another camp, and
+turned out that evening and killed a very large
+bear, which made <i>eight</i> we had now killed in
+this hunt.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_193" id="Page_193">[193]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The next morning we entered the harricane
+again, and in little or no time my dogs were in
+full cry. We pursued them, and soon came to a
+thick cane-brake, in which they had stop'd their
+bear. We got up close to him, as the cane was
+so thick that we couldn't see more than a few
+feet. Here I made my friend hold the cane a
+little open with his gun till I shot the bear,
+which was a mighty large one. I killed him
+dead in his tracks. We got him out and butchered
+him, and in a little time started another
+and killed him, which now made <i>ten</i> we had
+killed; and we know'd we couldn't pack any
+more home, as we had only five horses along;
+therefore we returned to the camp and salted up
+all our meat, to be ready for a start homeward
+next morning.</p>
+
+<p>The morning came, and we packed our horses
+with the meat, and had as much as they could possibly
+carry, and sure enough cut out for home. It
+was about thirty miles, and we reached home the
+second day. I had now accommodated my neighbour
+with meat enough to do him, and had killed
+in all, up to that time, fifty-eight bears, during the
+fall and winter.</p>
+
+<p>As soon as the time come for them to quit
+their houses and come out again in the spring,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_194" id="Page_194">[194]</a></span>
+I took a notion to hunt a little more, and in
+about one month I killed forty-seven more, which
+made one hundred and five bears I had killed in
+less than one year from that time.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_195" id="Page_195">[195]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+<h2>CHAPTER XVI.</h2>
+
+
+<p>Having now closed my hunting for that winter,
+I returned to my hands, who were engaged about
+my boats and staves, and made ready for a trip
+down the river. I had two boats and about
+thirty thousand staves, and so I loaded with them,
+and set out for New Orleans. I got out of the
+Obion river, in which I had loaded my boats,
+very well; but when I got into the Mississippi, I
+found all my hands were bad scared, and in fact I believe
+I was scared a little the worst of any; for
+I had never been down the river, and I soon discovered
+that my pilot was as ignorant of the business
+as myself. I hadn't gone far before I determined to
+lash the two boats together; we did so, but it made
+them so heavy and obstinate, that it was next akin
+to impossible to do any thing at all with them, or
+to guide them right in the river.</p>
+
+<p>That evening we fell in company with some
+Ohio boats; and about night we tried to land, but
+we could not. The Ohio men hollered to us to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_196" id="Page_196">[196]</a></span>
+go on and run all night. We took their advice,
+though we had a good deal rather not; but we
+couldn't do any other way. In a short distance we
+got into what is called the "<i>Devil's Elbow</i>;" and
+if any place in the wide creation has its own proper
+name, I thought it was this. Here we had about
+the hardest work that I ever was engaged in, in
+my life, to keep out of danger; and even then
+we were in it all the while. We twice attempted
+to land at Wood-yards, which we could see, but
+couldn't reach.</p>
+
+<p>The people would run out with lights, and try
+to instruct us how to get to shore; but all in vain.
+Our boats were so heavy that we couldn't take
+them much any way, except the way they wanted
+to go, and just the way the current would carry
+them. At last we quit trying to land, and concluded
+just to go ahead as well as we could, for
+we found we couldn't do any better. Some time
+in the night I was down in the cabin of one of
+the boats, sitting by the fire, thinking on what a
+hobble we had got into; and how much better
+bear-hunting was on hard land, than floating along
+on the water, when a fellow had to go ahead
+whether he was exactly willing or not.</p>
+
+<p>The hatchway into the cabin came slap down,
+right through the top of the boat; and it was the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_197" id="Page_197">[197]</a></span>
+only way out except a small hole in the side,
+which we had used for putting our arms through
+to dip up water before we lashed the boats together.</p>
+
+<p>We were now floating sideways, and the boat I
+was in was the hindmost as we went. All at once
+I heard the hands begin to run over the top of the
+boat in great confusion, and pull with all their
+might; and the first thing I know'd after this
+we went broadside full tilt against the head of an
+island where a large raft of drift timber had lodged.
+The nature of such a place would be, as every
+body knows, to suck the boats down, and turn
+them right under this raft; and the uppermost
+boat would, of course, be suck'd down and go under
+first. As soon as we struck, I bulged for my
+hatchway, as the boat was turning under sure
+enough. But when I got to it, the water was pouring
+thro' in a current as large as the hole would
+let it, and as strong as the weight of the river
+could force it. I found I couldn't get out here,
+for the boat was now turned down in such a way,
+that it was steeper than a house-top. I now
+thought of the hole in the side, and made my
+way in a hurry for that. With difficulty I got to
+it, and when I got there, I found it was too small
+for me to get out by my own dower, and I began<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_198" id="Page_198">[198]</a></span>
+to think that I was in a worse box than ever.
+But I put my arms through and hollered as loud
+as I could roar, as the boat I was in hadn't yet
+quite filled with water up to my head, and the
+hands who were next to the raft, seeing my arms
+out, and hearing me holler, seized them, and began
+to pull. I told them I was sinking, and to
+pull my arms off, or force me through, for now I
+know'd well enough it was neck or nothing, come
+out or sink.</p>
+
+<p>By a violent effort they jerked me through;
+but I was in a pretty pickle when I got through.
+I had been sitting without any clothing over my
+shirt: this was torn off, and I was literally
+skin'd like a rabbit. I was, however, well pleased
+to get out in any way, even without shirt or
+hide; as before I could straighten myself on the
+boat next to the raft, the one they pull'd me out
+of went entirely under, and I have never seen it
+any more to this day. We all escaped on to the
+raft, where we were compelled to sit all night,
+about a mile from land on either side. Four of
+my company were bareheaded, and three bare-footed;
+and of that number I was one. I reckon
+I looked like a pretty cracklin ever to get to
+Congress!!!</p>
+
+<p>We had now lost all our loading; and every<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_199" id="Page_199">[199]</a></span>
+particle of our clothing, except what little we had
+on; but over all this, while I was setting there,
+in the night, floating about on the drift, I felt happier
+and better off than I ever had in my life before,
+for I had just made such a marvellous escape,
+that I had forgot almost every thing else in that;
+and so I felt prime.</p>
+
+<p>In the morning about sunrise, we saw a boat
+coming down, and we hailed her. They sent a
+large skiff, and took us all on board, and carried us
+down as far as Memphis. Here I met with a
+friend, that I never can forget as long as I am able
+to go ahead at any thing; it was a Major Winchester,
+a merchant of that place: he let us all
+have hats, and shoes, and some little money to go
+upon, and so we all parted.</p>
+
+<p>A young man and myself concluded to go on
+down to Natchez, to see if we could hear any thing
+of our boats; for we supposed they would float
+out from the raft, and keep on down the river.
+We got on a boat at Memphis, that was going
+down, and so cut out. Our largest boat, we were
+informed, had been seen about fifty miles below
+where we stove, and an attempt had been made
+to land her, but without success, as she was as hard-headed
+as ever.</p>
+
+<p>This was the last of my boats, and of my boating;<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_200" id="Page_200">[200]</a></span>
+for it went so badly with me, along at the
+first, that I hadn't much mind to try it any
+more. I now returned home again, and as the
+next August was the Congressional election, I began
+to turn my attention a little to that matter, as
+it was beginning to be talked of a good deal among
+the people.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_201" id="Page_201">[201]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+<h2>CHAPTER XVII.</h2>
+
+
+<p>I have, heretofore, informed the reader that I
+had determined to run this race to see what effect
+<i>the price of cotton</i> could have again on it. I now
+had Col. Alexander to run against once more, and
+also General William Arnold.</p>
+
+<p>I had difficulties enough to fight against this
+time, as every one will suppose; for I had no
+money, and a very bad prospect, so far as I know'd,
+of getting any to help me along. I had, however,
+a good friend, who sent for me to come and see
+him. I went, and he was good enough to offer
+me some money to help me out. I borrowed
+as much as I thought I needed at the start, and
+went ahead. My friend also had a good deal of
+business about over the district at the different
+courts; and if he now and then slip'd in a
+good word for me, it is nobody's business.
+We frequently met at different places, and,
+as he thought I needed, he would occasionally
+hand me a little more cash; so I was able to buy<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_202" id="Page_202">[202]</a></span>
+a little of "the <i>creature</i>," to put my friends in a
+good humour, as well as the other gentlemen, for
+they all treat in that country; not to get elected,
+of course&mdash;for that would be against the law; but
+just, as I before said, to make themselves and their
+friends feel their keeping a little.</p>
+
+<p>Nobody ever did know how I got money to
+get along on, till after the election was over, and
+I had beat my competitors twenty-seven hundred
+and forty-eight votes. Even the price of
+cotton couldn't save my friend Aleck this time.
+My rich friend, who had been so good to me in
+the way of money, now sent for me, and loaned
+me a hundred dollars, and told me to go ahead;
+that that amount would bear my expenses to Congress,
+and I must then shift for myself. I came
+on to Washington, and draw'd two hundred and
+fifty dollars, and purchased with it a check on the
+bank at Nashville, and enclosed it to my friend;
+and I may say, in truth, I sent this money with a
+mighty good will, for I reckon nobody in this
+world loves a friend better than me, or remembers
+a kindness longer.</p>
+
+<p>I have now given the close of the election, but
+I have skip'd entirely over the canvass, of which
+I will say a very few things in this place; as I
+know very well how to tell the truth, but not much<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_203" id="Page_203">[203]</a></span>
+about placing them in book order, so as to please
+critics.</p>
+
+<p>Col. Alexander was a very clever fellow, and
+principal surveyor at that time; so much for one of
+the men I had to run against. My other competitor
+was a major-general in the militia, and an attorney-general
+at the law, and quite a smart, clever
+man also; and so it will be seen I had war work
+as well as law trick, to stand up under. Taking
+both together, they make a pretty considerable
+of a load for any one man to carry. But for
+war claims, I consider myself behind no man
+except "the government," and mighty little, if
+any, behind him; but this the people will have
+to determine hereafter, as I reckon it won't do
+to quit the work of "reform and retrenchment"
+yet for a spell.</p>
+
+<p>But my two competitors seemed some little
+afraid of the influence of each other, but not to
+think me in their way at all. They, therefore,
+were generally working against each other, while
+I was going ahead for myself, and mixing among
+the people in the best way I could. I was as cunning
+as a little red fox, and wouldn't risk my tail
+in a "committal" trap.</p>
+
+<p>I found the sign was good, almost everywhere
+I went. On one occasion, while we were in the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_204" id="Page_204">[204]</a></span>
+eastern counties of the district, it happened that
+we all had to make a speech, and it fell on me to
+make the first one. I did so after my manner,
+and it turned pretty much on the old saying, "A
+short horse is soon curried," as I spoke not very
+long. Colonel Alexander followed me, and then
+General Arnold come on.</p>
+
+<p>The general took much pains to reply to Alexander,
+but didn't so much as let on that there was
+any such candidate as myself at all. He had
+been speaking for a considerable time, when a
+large flock of guinea-fowls came very near to
+where he was, and set up the most unmerciful
+chattering that ever was heard, for they are a noisy
+little brute any way. They so confused the general,
+that he made a stop, and requested that they
+might be driven away. I let him finish his speech,
+and then walking up to him, said aloud, "Well,
+colonel, you are the first man I ever saw that understood
+the language of fowls." I told him that
+he had not had the politeness to name me in his
+speech, and that when my little friends, the guinea-fowls,
+had come up and began to holler "Crockett,
+Crockett, Crockett," he had been ungenerous
+enough to stop, and drive <i>them</i> all away. This
+raised a universal shout among the people for me,
+and the general seemed mighty bad plagued. But<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_205" id="Page_205">[205]</a></span>
+he got more plagued than this at the polls in August,
+as I have stated before.</p>
+
+<p>This election was in 1827, and I can say, on
+my conscience, that I was, without disguise, the
+friend and supporter of General Jackson, upon
+his principles as he laid them down, and as "<i>I
+understood them</i>," before his election as president.
+During my two first sessions in Congress,
+Mr. Adams was president, and I worked along
+with what was called the Jackson party pretty
+well. I was re-elected to Congress, in 1829, by
+an overwhelming majority; and soon after the
+commencement of this second term, I saw, or
+thought I did, that it was expected of me that I
+was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson, and
+follow him in all his motions, and mindings, and
+turnings, even at the expense of my conscience
+and judgment. Such a thing was new to me, and
+a total stranger to my principles. I know'd well
+enough, though, that if I didn't "hurra" for his
+name, the hue and cry was to be raised against
+me, and I was to be sacrificed, if possible. His
+famous, or rather I should say his in-<i>famous</i>, Indian
+bill was brought forward, and I opposed it
+from the purest motives in the world. Several
+of my colleagues got around me, and told me how
+well they loved me, and that I was ruining my<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_206" id="Page_206">[206]</a></span>self.
+They said this was a favourite measure of
+the president, and I ought to go for it. I told
+them I believed it was a wicked, unjust measure,
+and that I should go against it, let the cost to myself
+be what it might; that I was willing to go
+with General Jackson in every thing that I believed
+was honest and right; but, further than
+this, I wouldn't go for him, or any other man in
+the whole creation; that I would sooner be honestly
+and politically d&mdash;nd, than hypocritically
+immortalized. I had been elected by a majority
+of three thousand five hundred and eighty-five
+votes, and I believed they were honest men, and
+wouldn't want me to vote for any unjust notion,
+to please Jackson or any one else; at any rate,
+I was of age, and was determined to trust them.
+I voted against this Indian bill, and my conscience
+yet tells me that I gave a good honest vote, and
+one that I believe will not make me ashamed in
+the day of judgment. I served out my term, and
+though many amusing things happened, I am not
+disposed to swell my narrative by inserting them.</p>
+
+<p>When it closed, and I returned home, I found
+the storm had raised against me sure enough;
+and it was echoed from side to side, and from end
+to end of my district, that I had turned against
+Jackson. This was considered the unpardonable<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_207" id="Page_207">[207]</a></span>
+sin. I was hunted down like a wild varment, and
+in this hunt every little newspaper in the district,
+and every little pin-hook lawyer was engaged.
+Indeed, they were ready to print any and every
+thing that the ingenuity of man could invent
+against me. Each editor was furnished with the
+journals of Congress from head-quarters; and
+hunted out every vote I had missed in four sessions,
+whether from sickness or not, no matter,
+and each one was charged against me at <i>eight</i>
+dollars. In all I had missed about <i>seventy</i> votes,
+which they made amount to five hundred and
+sixty dollars; and they contended I had swindled
+the government out of this sum, as I had received
+my pay, as other members do. I was now again
+a candidate in 1830, while all the attempts were
+making against me; and every one of these little
+papers kept up a constant war on me, fighting
+with every scurrilous report they could catch.</p>
+
+<p>Over all I should have been elected, if it hadn't
+been, that but a few weeks before the election, the
+little four-pence-ha'penny limbs of the law fell on
+a plan to defeat me, which had the desired effect.
+They agreed to spread out over the district, and
+make appointments for me to speak, almost everywhere,
+to clear up the Jackson question. They
+would give me no notice of these appointments,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_208" id="Page_208">[208]</a></span>
+and the people would meet in great crowds to
+hear what excuse Crockett had to make for quitting
+Jackson.</p>
+
+<p>But instead of Crockett's being there, this
+small-fry of lawyers would be there, with their
+saddle-bags full of the little newspapers and their
+journals of Congress; and would get up and
+speak, and read their scurrilous attacks on me,
+and would then tell the people that I was afraid
+to attend; and in this way would turn many
+against me. All this intrigue was kept a profound
+secret from me, till it was too late to counteract
+it; and when the election came, I had a majority
+in seventeen counties, putting all their votes together,
+but the eighteenth beat me; and so I was
+left out of Congress during those two years. The
+people of my district were induced, by these tricks,
+to take a stay on me for that time; but they have
+since found out that they were imposed on, and
+on re-considering my case, have reversed that decision;
+which, as the Dutchman said, "is as fair a
+ding as eber was."</p>
+
+<p>When I last declared myself a candidate, I
+knew that the district would be divided by the
+Legislature before the election would come on;
+and I moreover knew, that from the geographical
+situation of the country, the county of Madison,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_209" id="Page_209">[209]</a></span>
+which was very strong, and which was the
+county that had given the majority that had beat
+me in the former race, should be left off from my
+district.</p>
+
+<p>But when the Legislature met, as I have been
+informed, and I have no doubt of the fact, Mr.
+Fitzgerald, my competitor, went up, and informed
+his friends in that body, that if Madison county
+was left off, he wouldn't run; for "that Crockett
+could beat Jackson himself in those parts, in any
+way they could fix it."</p>
+
+<p>The liberal Legislature you know, of course,
+gave him that county; and it is too clear to admit
+of dispute, that it was done to make a mash of me.
+In order to make my district in this way, they had
+to form the southern district of a string of counties
+around three sides of mine, or very nearly so.
+Had my old district been properly divided, it
+would have made two nice ones, in convenient nice
+form. But as it is, they are certainly the most
+unreasonably laid off of any in the state, or perhaps
+in the nation, or even in the te-total creation.</p>
+
+<p>However, when the election came on, the people
+of the district, and of Madison county among
+the rest, seemed disposed to prove to Mr. Fitzgerald
+and the Jackson Legislature, that they were not
+to be transferred like hogs, and horses, and cattle<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_210" id="Page_210">[210]</a></span>
+in the market; and they determined that I shouldn't
+be broke down, though I had to carry Jackson, and
+the enemies of the bank, and the legislative works
+all at once. I had Mr. Fitzgerald, it is true, for
+my open competitor, but he was helped along by
+all his little lawyers again, headed by old Black
+Hawk, as he is sometimes called, (alias) Adam
+Huntsman, with all his talents for writing "<i>Chronicles</i>,"
+and such like foolish stuff.</p>
+
+<p class="extraspacebot">But one good thing was, and I must record it,
+the papers in the district were now beginning to
+say "fair play a little," and they would publish
+on both sides of the question. The contest was a
+warm one, and the battle well-fought; but I gained
+the day, and the Jackson horse was left a little
+behind. When the polls were compared, it turned
+out I had beat Fitz just two hundred and two
+votes, having made a mash of all their intrigues.
+After all this, the reader will perceive that I am
+now here in Congress, this 28th day of January,
+in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
+and thirty-four; and that, what is more
+agreeable to my feelings as a freeman, I am at
+liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment
+dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party
+on me, or the driver at my heels, with his whip in
+hand, commanding me to ge-wo-haw, just at his<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_211" id="Page_211">[211]</a></span>
+pleasure. Look at my arms, you will find no
+party hand-cuff on them! Look at my neck, you
+will not find there any collar, with the engraving</p>
+
+<div class="bbox bl br extraspacetop">
+MY DOG.
+<p class="smcap extraspace3top right">Andrew Jackson.</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<p class="extraspace3top">But you will find me standing up to my rack,
+as the people's faithful representative, and the public's
+most obedient, very humble servant,</p>
+
+<p class="rightinside">
+DAVID CROCKETT.</p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_212" id="Page_212">[212]</a></span></p>
+<h2>THE END.</h2>
+<hr class="r65" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_213" id="Page_213">[213]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="r65" />
+
+<p class="rightinside">
+CHESNUT STREET,<br />
+MARCH, 1834.
+</p>
+
+<p class="center extraspacetop">
+NEW WORKS<br />
+<br />
+LATELY PUBLISHED,<br />
+AND<br />
+PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION,<br />
+<small>BY</small><br />
+E. L. CAREY &amp; A. HART, PHILAD.<br />
+<small>AND</small><br />
+CAREY, HART &amp; Co. BALTIMORE,<br />
+<small>AND FOR SALE BY ALL BOOKSELLERS</small>.<br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">
+In two Volumes, 12mo.<br />
+CONSTANCE;<br />
+<br />
+By Mrs. <span class="smcap">A. T. Thomson</span>,<br />
+Author of the Life of Henry VIII.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="blockquote">"One of the most touching and exquisitely natural tales that many
+seasons have produced. It developes an intimate knowledge of the human
+heart, and a remarkable power in the delineation of character."&mdash;<i>Atlas.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"This novel, in its sketches of English country society, is most successful;
+its portraits are very happy, its scenes very amusing."&mdash;<i>Spectator.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"A picture of real life, drawn with equal truth, gaiety and feeling&mdash;the
+three graces of fiction."&mdash;<i>Literary Gazette.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"The dramatic ability displayed in the management of this story is of
+the very highest order."&mdash;<i>Atlas.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">
+In one Volume, 12mo.<br />
+CARWELL;<br />
+<br />
+By Mrs. <span class="smcap">Sheridan</span>, Author of "<span class="smcap">Aims and Ends</span>."<br />
+</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"A story which for minute fidelity to truth, for high tragic conception,
+both of plot and character, has few equals in modern fiction."</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"But everywhere you see that rarest of all literary beauties, a beautiful
+mind&mdash;an intimate persuasion of the fine and great truths of the
+human heart&mdash;a delicate and quick perception of the lovely and the honest&mdash;an
+intellect that profits by experience, and a disposition which that
+experience cannot corrupt."&mdash;<i>The Author of Pelham.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">
+In one Volume, 12mo.<br />
+THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK.
+</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"It is very clever and very entertaining&mdash;replete with pleasantry and
+humour: quite as imaginative as any German diablerie, and far more
+amusing than most productions of its class. It is a very whimsical and
+well devised jeu d'esprit."&mdash;<i>Literary Gazette.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_214" id="Page_214">[214]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In two Volumes, 12mo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">TRAITS AND STORIES OF THE
+IRISH PEASANTRY.</p>
+
+<p class="center">THIRD SERIES.</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"This work has been most extravagantly praised by the English critics:
+and several extracts from it have been extensively published in our newspapers.
+It is altogether a better work than any of the kind which has
+yet appeared&mdash;replete with humour, both broad and delicate&mdash;and with
+occasional touches of pathos, which have not been excelled by any writer
+of the present day. An Edinburgh critic says that 'neither Miss Edgeworth,
+nor the author of the O'Hara tales, could have written any thing
+more powerful than this.'"&mdash;<i>Baltimore American.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"There seems to be a strong unanimity of opinion in favour of the new
+British work entitled 'Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry.' The
+work is proclaimed in the British journals, and pronounced by readers in
+our country, to be equal in racy humour and graphic delineation, to the
+very best sketches that have appeared of Irish character, life, and manners."&mdash;<i>National
+Gazette.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In two Volumes, 12mo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">THE AFFIANCED ONE;</p>
+
+<p class="center">By the Author of "<span class="smcap">Gertrude</span>."</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"Evidently the production of a woman of taste and refinement. It
+abounds with lively sketches of society, and sparkling anecdote."&mdash;<i>Belle
+Assemblee.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In one Volume, 8vo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">MEMOIRS OF VIDOCQ,</p>
+
+<p class="center">THE CELEBRATED AGENT OF THE FRENCH POLICE.</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">This is a most entertaining work. Vidocq stood long and deservedly at
+the head of the French police. It is well written, and is full of anecdote.</p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In three Volumes, 12mo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">PETER SIMPLE;<br />
+
+<small>OR, ADVENTURES OF A MIDSHIPMAN.</small><br />
+
+<small>COMPLETE.</small></p>
+
+<p class="center">By the Author of the "<span class="smcap">King's Own</span>," "<span class="smcap">Naval Officer</span>," &amp;c.</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"The quiet humour which pervades the work is irresistibly amusing,
+and the fund of anecdote and description which it contains, entertaining.
+The humour sometimes approaches to downright burlesque, and the incident
+to extravagance, if not improbability; but, altogether, as a book of
+amusement, it is excellent."&mdash;<i>Baltimore Gazette.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_215" id="Page_215">[215]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In Two Volumes, 12mo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">THE FAIR OF MAY FAIR.</p>
+
+<p class="center">By the Author of "<span class="smcap">Pin Money</span>," &amp;c.</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"Mrs. Gore certainly stands at the head of the female novelists of the
+day. But we subjoin the opinion of Mr. Bulwer."&mdash;<i>U. S. Gazette.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"She is the consummator of that undefinable species of wit, which we
+should call (if we did not know the word might be deemed offensive, in
+which sense we do not mean it) the <i>slang</i> of good society.</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"But few people ever painted, with so felicitous a hand, the scenery of
+worldly life, without any apparent satire. She brings before you the hollowness,
+the man&oelig;uvres, and the intrigues of the world, with the brilliancy
+of sarcasm, but with the quiet of simple narrative. Her men and
+women, in her graver tales, are of a noble and costly clay; their objects
+are great; their minds are large, their passions intense and pure. The
+walks upon the stage of the world of fashion, and her characters, have
+grown dwarfed as if by enchantment. The air of frivolity has blighted
+their stature; their colours are pale and languid; they have no generous
+ambition; they are <i>little people!</i> they are fine people! This it is that makes
+her novel of our social life so natural, and so clear a transcript of the
+original."&mdash;<i>The Author of Pelham.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In Two Volumes, 12mo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">THE INVISIBLE GENTLEMAN.</p>
+
+<p class="center">By the Author of "<span class="smcap">Chartley</span>," "<span class="smcap">The Fatalist</span>," etc. etc.</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"It is a novel which may be termed the whimsically supernatural."&mdash;<i>Athen&aelig;um.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"The present narrative is one of the most entertaining fictions we have
+met with for a long time; the idea is very original, and brought into play
+with a lively air of truth, which gives a dramatic reality even to the supernatural."&mdash;<i>Literary
+Gazette.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"The adventures follow each other with delightful rapidity and variety;
+occasionally there is a deep and thrilling touch of pathos, which we feel
+not a bit the less acutely, because the trouble and wo of the parties have
+originated in the familiar and somewhat laughable act of pulling an ear."&mdash;<i>Court
+Magazine.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In Two Volumes, 12mo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS.</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"The best novel of the season&mdash;a faithful, exact, and withal spirited
+picture of the aristocracy of this country&mdash;an admirable description of
+what is called high life, and full of a more enlarged knowledge of human
+nature."&mdash;<i>Spectator.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"A very lively and amusing panorama of actual life."&mdash;<i>Lit. Gazette.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"A very interesting work, full of well-described scenes and characters,
+and altogether deserving of being classed with the first-rate novels of the
+day."&mdash;<i>Courier.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"It would be difficult to lay down such a book until every chapter has
+been perused. Elegance and force of style&mdash;highly but faithfully drawn
+pictures of society&mdash;are merits scarcely secondary to those we have enumerated:
+and they are equally displayed throughout. 'Mothers and Daughters'
+must find its way rapidly into every circle."&mdash;<i>Bulwer's New Monthly
+Magazine.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_216" id="Page_216">[216]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In one Volume, 12mo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">A SUBALTERN IN AMERICA;</p>
+
+<p class="center">COMPRISING HIS NARRATIVE OF THE CAMPAIGNS OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT
+BALTIMORE, WASHINGTON, ETC. DURING THE LATE WAR.</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"The Subaltern is a man of sense, acuteness, and good feeling, who
+writes with spirit and good taste.&mdash;Considering that he is an Englishman
+and an English officer writing about America, his book is tolerably fair&mdash;and
+makes fewer insulting comments upon things which he did not understand,
+than has been customary with that kind of authors.</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"The 'Subaltern' is nevertheless a very agreeable, well written book,
+and we are glad to see it republished here. No doubt an American would
+have written some portions of it differently, but we can profit, we trust,
+by observing how opposite accounts can be fairly given of the same transactions,
+and learn something of the trouble in which history is written." <i>Baltimore American.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"<span class="smcap">The Subaltern in America.</span>&mdash;Under this title, Messrs. Carey, Hart &amp;
+Co. have recently published a work in one volume, comprising a full narrative
+of the campaigns of the British army, at Baltimore, Washington,
+New Orleans, &amp;c. during the late war. The incidents of the war, as related
+in the American papers, are probably familiar to most persons,
+through that channel. Yet the ends of truth, and the means of forming
+a just judgment, may require that one should hear the statement of the
+adverse party, as well as that most favourable to our side of the question.
+There is, moreover, two ways of telling even the truth. They who feel
+an interest in the details of this important struggle between kindred
+nations, have, in the book before us, an opportunity of hearing them, as
+shaped out by one of the adverse party. The 'Subaltern' bore an active
+share in the several campaigns, of which he professes to give an account;
+and if his narrations are somewhat partial to his own side of the question,
+it is but the indulgence of a very common foible, which may be the
+more readily excused, as the means of correction are at hand."&mdash;<i>Baltimore
+Patriot.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In two Volumes, 12mo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">PIN MONEY;<br />
+
+<small>BY MRS. CHARLES GORE</small>,</p>
+
+<p class="center">Authoress of "<span class="smcap">Hungarian Tales</span>," "<span class="smcap">Polish Tales</span>," etc.</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"Her writings have that originality which wit gives to reality, and wit
+is the great characteristic of her pages."&mdash;<i>Bulwer's New Monthly Magazine.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"Light spirited and clever, the characters are drawn with truth and
+vigour. Keen in observation, lively in detail, and with a peculiar and
+piquant style, Mrs. Charles Gore gives to the novel that charm which
+makes the fascination of the best French memoir writers."&mdash;<i>London Literary
+Gazette.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In one Volume, 12mo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">LEGENDS AND TALES OF IRELAND</p>
+
+<p class="center">BY SAMUEL LOVER.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_217" id="Page_217">[217]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="center">In two Volumes, 12mo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">THE MAN-OF-WAR'S-MAN;</p>
+
+<p class="center">By the Author of "<span class="smcap">Tom Cringle's Log</span>."</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"No stories of adventures are more exciting than those of seamen. The
+author of Tom Cringle's Log is the most popular writer of that class, and
+those sketches collected not long since into a volume by the same publishers,
+in this city, were universally read. A large edition was soon exhausted.
+The present is, we believe, an earlier production, and has many
+of the same merits."&mdash;<i>Baltimore Gazette.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"Messrs. Carey &amp; Hart have published, in two volumes, 'The Man-of-War's-Man.'
+The success which attended the publication of 'Tom
+Cringle's Log,' might well induce its ingenious author to undertake a continuous
+narrative, having for the subject of illustration the manners and
+customs of seamen. The work now before us is of the kind, well imagined,
+and executed with all the tact and clearness that distinguished the 'Log
+Book' of Master Cringle, with the advantages of a more regular plot and
+interesting denouement."&mdash;<i>U. S. Gazette.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"Nobody needs be told what sort of a book Tom Cringle can write&mdash;that
+humorous and most admirable of sailors! We may just remark that
+the reader will find in the present volume the same power of description
+and knowledge of the world&mdash;the same stirring adventures, phrases, dialects,
+and incidents which rendered his last work so extravagantly popular.
+The printing is uncommonly good for a novel."</p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In one Volume, 8vo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">THE AMERICAN</p>
+
+<p class="center">FLOWER GARDEN DIRECTORY,</p>
+
+<p class="center"><small>CONTAINING PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS FOR THE CULTURE
+OF PLANTS IN THE</small></p>
+
+<p class="center">HOT-HOUSE, GARDEN-HOUSE, FLOWER-GARDEN,
+AND ROOMS OR PARLOURS,</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">For every month in the year; with a description of the plants most
+desirable in each, the nature of the soil and situation best adapted to their
+growth, the proper season for transplanting, &amp;c.; instructions for erecting a</p>
+
+<p class="center">HOT-HOUSE, GREEN-HOUSE, AND LAYING OUT A
+FLOWER-GARDEN.</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">Also, table of soils most congenial to the plants contained in the work.
+The whole adapted to either large or small gardens, with lists of annuals,
+bienniels, and ornamental shrubs, contents, a general index, and a frontispiece
+of Camellia Fimbriata.</p>
+
+<p class="center">BY HIBBERT AND BUIST,<br />
+
+EXOTIC NURSERYMEN AND FLORISTS.</p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In two Volumes, 12mo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">JACOB FAITHFUL;</p>
+
+<p class="center">By the Author of <span class="smcap">Peter Simple</span>, &amp;c. <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_218" id="Page_218">[218]</a></span>&amp;c.</p>
+
+<p class="center">In Two Vols. 12mo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">FIRST LOVE,<br />
+<small>A NOVEL.</small></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"Its style is elegant, and its information that of a lady of amiable feelings
+and motives, who well understands her sex."&mdash;<i>Spectator.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"The whole of the story, but particularly the dawning of that early
+dawning of life's morning, First Love, and the subsequent progress of that
+passion, are indeed delightfully sketched."&mdash;<i>Morning Post.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In Two Volumes, 12mo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">TRAITS AND STORIES OF THE
+IRISH PEASANTRY</p>
+
+<p class="center">FIRST SERIES.</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"Admirable&mdash;truly, intensely Irish: never were the outrageous whimsicalities
+of that strange, wild, imaginative people so characteristically described;
+nor amidst all the fun, frolic, and folly, is there any dearth of
+poetry, pathos, and passion. The author's a jewel."&mdash;<i>Glasgow Journal.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"To those who have a relish for a few tit-bits of rale Irish story-telling,&mdash;whether
+partaking of the tender or the facetious, or the grotesque,&mdash;let
+them purchase these characteristic sketches."&mdash;<i>Sheffield Iris.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"The sister country has never furnished such sterling genius, such irresistibly
+humorous, yet faithful sketches of character among the lower ranks
+of Patlanders, as are to be met with in the pages of these delightful volumes."&mdash;<i>Bristol
+Journal.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"This is a capital book, full of fun and humour, and most characteristically
+Irish."&mdash;<i>New Monthly Magazine.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"Neither Miss Edgeworth, nor the author of the O'Hara Tales, could have
+written any thing more powerful than this."&mdash;<i>Edinburgh Literary Gazette.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"We do not hesitate to say, that for a minute and accurate sketching of
+the character, manners, and language of the lower orders of the Irish, no
+book was ever published at all equal to this."&mdash;<i>Spectator.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In Two Volumes, 12mo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">TRAITS AND STORIES OF THE
+IRISH PEASANTRY.</p>
+
+<p class="center">SECOND SERIES.</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"Traits and Stories of Irish Peasantry.&mdash;The whole story is one of
+that mirth-inspiring nature, that those who read it without hearty laughter
+must be either miserable or very imperturbable."&mdash;<i>Metropolitan, edited
+by T. Campbell.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"There is strength, vigour&mdash;and above all&mdash;truth, in every story, in
+every sentence, every line he writes. The statesman ought to read such
+books as these; they would tell him more of the true state of the country
+than he has ever heard from the lips of her orators, or the despatches of
+the 'Castle Hacks.' We wish Mr. Carlton would send forth a cheap edition,
+that 'Traits and Stories' of Irish peasants might be in the hands of
+people as well as peers."&mdash;<i>Bulwer's New Monthly Magazine.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_219" id="Page_219">[219]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In Two Volumes, 12mo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">THE STAFF-OFFICER.
+OR, THE SOLDIER OF FORTUNE.</p>
+
+<p class="center">A TALE OF REAL LIFE.</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"The web of life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together; our virtues
+would be proud if our faults whipped them not, and our crimes would
+despair if they were not cherished by our virtues."</p>
+
+
+<p class="center extraspacetop">BY OLIVER MOORE.</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"We are prepared to admit that our extracts do not do justice to the
+work: the writer's power is in discriminating <i>female</i> character; but as he
+judiciously makes it develope itself by incident, to illustrate this would
+require scenes and pages to be transferred to our columns. As a whole,
+this novel will be read with interest: it is light and pleasant; with many
+very natural scenes, many excellent and well-drawn characters, and without
+one line or word of affectation or pretence."&mdash;<i>Athen&aelig;um.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"This is a most entertaining work: it is written with great spirit, elegance,
+and candour. The delineation of character (particularly that of
+many distinguished individuals officially connected with Ireland during
+the Pitt administration) is skilfully and vividly drawn; and the multifarious
+incidents&mdash;several of which are of a highly <i>piquant</i> description&mdash;are
+given with a tact and delicacy creditable to the judgment and talent
+of the author. We can say with truth, that we have fairly gone through
+this tale of real life without being cloyed or wearied for a single moment;
+but that it excited, and kept up, an interest in our minds which few volumes
+designed for mere amusement have been able to inspire."&mdash;<i>Brighton
+Herald.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In Two Volumes, 12mo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">THE NAVAL OFFICER;<br />
+
+<small>OR, SCENES AND ADVENTURES IN THE LIFE
+OF FRANK MILDMAY.</small></p>
+
+<p class="center">By the Author of "<span class="smcap">Peter Simple</span>," "<span class="smcap">The King's Own</span>," etc.</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"This is the most seaman-like composition that has yet issued from the
+press. We recommend it to all who 'live at home at ease,' and need
+scarcely say, that no man-of-wars man should remain an hour without it."&mdash;<i>Atlas.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">The following beautiful and judicious compliment to the genius of Captain
+Marryatt, author of the Naval Officer, is from the pen of Mr. Bulwer,
+who, it will be acknowledged, is no inexperienced or unobserving critic:</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"Far remote from the eastern and the voluptuous&mdash;from the visionary
+and refining&mdash;from the pale colouring of drawing-room life, and the subtle
+delicacies of female sentiment and wit, the genius of Captain Marryatt
+embodies itself in the humour, the energy, the robust and masculine vigour
+of bustling and actual existence; it has been braced by the sea breezes;
+it walks abroad in the mart of busy men, with a firm step and a cheerful
+and healthy air. Not, indeed, that he is void of a certain sentiment, and
+an intuition into the more hidden sources of mental interest; but these
+are not his forte, or his appropriate element. He is best in a rich and
+various humour&mdash;rich, for there is nothing poor or threadbare in his materials.
+His characters are not, as Scott's, after all, mere delineations of
+one oddity, uttering the same eternal phraseology, from the 'prodigious' of
+Dominie Sampson, to 'provant' of Major Dalgetty&mdash;a laughable, but somewhat
+poor invention: they are formed of compound and complex characteristics,
+and evince no trifling knowledge of the metaphysics of social life."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_220" id="Page_220">[220]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In Two Volumes, 12mo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">THE CONTRAST<br /> A NOVEL.</p>
+
+<p class="center">By <span class="smcap">Earl Mulgrave</span>, Author of "<span class="smcap">Matilda</span>," "<span class="smcap">Yes and No</span>," etc.</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"'Yes and No' contained the best <i>tableaux</i> of actual&mdash;human&mdash;English
+society in the nineteenth century, of any novel we know of. The same
+characteristics that distinguished the most agreeable novel are equally
+remarkable in its successors."&mdash;<i>Bulwer's New Monthly Magazine.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"'Contrast' cannot fail to prove interesting."&mdash;<i>Court Journal.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"These volumes possess the rather uncommon merit of a very interesting
+story. The design is to paint a man whose strong feelings are
+curbed by an over-fastidiousness&mdash;what the French so happily term un-homme
+difficile."&mdash;<i>London Literary Gazette.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"Messrs. Carey and Hart have republished, in two neat volumes, Earl
+Mulgrave's novel of the 'Contrast,' which has been so favourably received
+in England. It is said to be one of the best novels of the kind, that has
+issued from the press for years."&mdash;<i>Philadelphia Inquirer.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"'Pelham,' and 'Yes and No,' are perhaps the only paintings of the present
+time which are drawn with the accuracy of knowledge, and the vivacity
+of talent. Were we to be asked by a foreigner to recommend those
+novels which, founded on truth, gave the most just delineation of the higher
+classes in England, it is to the above mentioned works we should refer.
+<i>The present volumes, however, are an infinite improvement on their predecessor.</i>"&mdash;<i>London
+Literary Gazette.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In One Volume, 8vo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">MEMOIRS OF MARSHAL NEY,</p>
+
+<p class="center"><small>COMPILED FROM PAPERS IN THE POSSESSION OF HIS FAMILY</small>.</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">The work has been put together under the direction and management
+of the Duke of Elchingen, Marshal Ney's second son, who has affixed his
+signature to every sheet sent to press.</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"They may be regarded as the Ney Papers, connected together by an
+interesting biography; the anecdotes with which they are interspersed
+have plainly been collected with great pains from all the early friends of
+that illustrious warrior."&mdash;<i>Blackwood's Magazine.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"The memoirs before us are founded upon the papers and documents
+which he left behind him at his death, consisting of anecdotic and biographical
+fragments, accounts of his divers missions and campaigns, and
+the substance of many extraordinary secrets intrusted to him as a general
+and a statesman. All these materials throw great light upon the history
+of the French empire, as the details given in the memoirs possess the
+strongest interest."&mdash;<i>Pennsylvania Inquirer.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_221" id="Page_221">[221]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In One Volume, 12mo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">CONVERSATIONS
+ON VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY;</p>
+
+<p class="center"><small>COMPREHENDING THE ELEMENTS OF BOTANY, WITH THEIR APPLICATION
+TO AGRICULTURE.</small></p>
+
+<p class="center">By the Author of "<span class="smcap">Conversations on Chemistry</span>," &amp;c. &amp;c.</p>
+
+<p class="center">Adapted to the use of schools by<br />
+J. L. BLAKE, A. M.</p>
+
+<p class="center">Third American Edition, with coloured plates.</p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">IN PREPARATION,</p>
+
+<p class="center">THE GIFT;<br />
+<small>A CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR'S PRESENT,
+FOR 1835.</small></p>
+
+<p class="center">Edited by <span class="smcap">Miss Leslie</span>, author of "<span class="smcap">Pencil Sketches</span>," &amp;c.</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">The publishers have the promise of articles from many of the most
+popular authors of the day. The ILLUSTRATIONS are in the hands of
+some of the most eminent engravers, and no expense will be spared to
+render the work in every respect equal to the foreign productions of the
+same class.</p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">MATHEMATICS FOR PRACTICAL MEN;<br />
+<small>BEING</small><br />
+A COMMON-PLACE BOOK<br />
+<small>OF PRINCIPLES, THEOREMS, RULES AND TABLES, IN VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS OF</small><br />
+PURE AND MIXED MATHEMATICS,</p>
+
+<div class="blockquote"><p>With their applications; especially to the pursuits of surveyors, architects,
+mechanics, and civil engineers. With numerous engravings.</p></div>
+
+<p class="center">BY OLINTHUS GREGORY, LL.D., F.R.A.S.</p>
+
+<p class="center"><small>SECOND EDITION, CORRECTED AND IMPROVED.</small></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"Only let men awake, and fix their eyes, one while on the nature of
+things, another while on the application of them to the use and service
+of mankind."&mdash;<i>Lord Bacon.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In One Volume, 18mo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">COLMAN'S BROAD GRINS.</p>
+
+<p class="center">A NEW EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS.</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"'This is a little volume of the comic,' which we recollect to have
+laughed over many a time, in our boyish days, and since. It is old standard
+fun,&mdash;a comic classic."&mdash;<i>Baltimore Gazette.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_222" id="Page_222">[222]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">ENGLISH EDITIONS.</p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">Price 37-1/2 cents each number.</p>
+
+
+<p class="center">CUVIER'S ANIMAL KINGDOM;</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">Now in course of publication in London. The Animal Kingdom, arranged
+according to its organization, serving as a foundation for the
+natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy,
+with figures designed and coloured after nature. The Crustacea, Arachnides
+Insecta, by Latreille, translated from the latest French edition, with
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+to be completed in thirty-six monthly numbers, at 37-1/2 cents each.</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">Six numbers have already been received. The attention of the public
+is particularly requested to this work, as it is, without question, by far
+the cheapest and most beautiful edition of the "Animal Kingdom" of
+Cuvier that has yet appeared.</p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">LANDSCAPE AND PORTRAIT ILLUSTRATIONS<br />
+<small>OF THE</small><br />
+WAVERLEY NOVELS.</p>
+
+<p class="center">NEW EDITION;</p>
+
+<p class="center">Containing one hundred and twenty superb engravings.</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">The above work is complete in <i>twenty-four</i> numbers, and supplied at
+the moderate price of <i>seventy-five cents per number</i>. The former edition
+sold at <i>double the price</i>.</p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center"><small>ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE POETICAL WORKS OF</small><br />
+SIR WALTER SCOTT;</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">Now in course of publication in England; to be complete in <i>twelve</i>
+monthly numbers, four of which have already appeared. Price 75 cents
+each.</p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">FINDEN'S LANDSCAPE ILLUSTRATIONS<br />
+<small>OF THE LIFE AND WORKS OF</small><br />
+LORD BYRON.</p>
+
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+
+<p class="blockquote">To be completed in 24 numbers, 18 of which have already appeared. Each
+number contains five highly-finished engravings.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_223" id="Page_223">[223]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center"><small>A WHISPER</small><br />
+TO A NEWLY-MARRIED PAIR.</p>
+
+<p class="blockquotesm">
+"Hail, wedded love! by gracious Heaven design'd,<br />
+At once the source and glory of mankind."<br />
+</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"We solicit the attention of our readers to this publication, as one,
+though small, of infinite value."&mdash;<i>Baltimore Minerva.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"'The Whisper' is fully deserving the compliments bestowed upon it,
+and we join heartily in recommending it to our friends, whether married
+or single&mdash;for much useful instruction may be gathered from its pages."&mdash;<i>Lady's
+Book.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"The work contains some original suggestions that are just, and many
+excellent quotations; some of her hints to the ladies should have been
+<i>whispered</i> in a tone too low to be overheard by the men."&mdash;<i>Daily Chronicle.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In One Volume, 18mo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">PRINCIPLES OF THE
+ART OF MODERN HORSEMANSHIP
+FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
+<small>IN WHICH ALL THE LATE IMPROVEMENTS ARE APPLIED TO PRACTICE</small>.</p>
+
+<p class="center">Translated from the French, by <span class="smcap">Daniel J. Desmond</span>.</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote"><span class="smcap">The Art of Horsemanship.</span>&mdash;This is the title of a neat little work
+translated from the French of Mr. Lebeaud, by Daniel J. Desmond, Esq.
+of this city, and just published by Carey &amp; Hart. It gives full and explicit
+directions for breaking and managing a horse, and goes into detail on the
+proper mode of mounting, the posture in the saddle, the treatment of the
+animal under exercise, &amp;c. An appendix is added, containing instructions
+for the <i>ladies</i>, in mounting and dismounting.</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">The Philadelphia public are under obligations to Mr. Desmond for this
+translation. We have long needed a manual of horsemanship, to correct
+the inelegant habits in which many of our riders indulge, and to produce
+uniformity in the art of equitation. We see daily in our streets, mounted
+men, who totter in their seats as if suffering under an ague-fit; others
+who whip, spur, and rant, as if charging an enemy in battle; and again
+others, of slovenly habits, with cramped knees, and toes projecting outwards,
+who occupy a position utterly devoid of every thing like ease,
+grace, or beauty. These things are discreditable to our community, and
+earnestly do we hope, that this book will have many attentive readers.&mdash;<i>Philadelphia
+Gazette.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In One Volume, 12mo</p>
+
+<p class="center">TWO HUNDRED RECEIPTS IN
+DOMESTIC FRENCH COOKERY.</p>
+
+<p class="center">By <span class="smcap">Miss Leslie</span>, Author of the "<span class="smcap">Seventy-five Receipts</span>."</p>
+
+<p class="center">Price 50 cents.</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"'The 200 Receipts by Miss Leslie,' published by Carey and Hart of Philadelphia,
+has been much praised, and we think deservedly. The selection
+of subjects made by the accomplished writer is of a most tempting and
+tasteful description, and we must do her the justice to say, that she has
+treated them in such an eloquent and forcible manner, as to raise in the
+minds of all dispassionate readers the most tender and pleasurable associations.
+We commend her to the careful perusal and respect of all thrifty
+housewives."&mdash;<i>New York Mirror.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_224" id="Page_224">[224]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In One Volume, 12mo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">THE PAINTER'S AND COLOURMAN'S
+COMPLETE GUIDE;</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">Being a Practical Treatise on the Preparation of Colours, and their application
+to the different kinds of Painting; in which is particularly
+described the <span class="smcap">whole Art of House Painting</span>. By <span class="smcap">P. F. Tingry</span>,
+Professor of Chymistry, Natural History, and Mineralogy, in the Academy
+of Geneva. First American, from the third London Edition,
+corrected and considerably improved by a practical chymist.</p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In One Volume, 18mo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">THE
+FAMILY DYER AND SCOURER;</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">Being a Complete Treatise on the Arts of Dying and Cleaning every
+article of Dress, whether made of Wool, Cotton, Silk, Flax, or Hair;
+also Bed and Window Furniture, Carpets, Hearth-rugs, Counterpanes,
+Bonnets, Feathers, &amp;c. By <span class="smcap">William Tucker</span>, Dyer and Scourer in
+the Metropolis.</p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">ELEMENTS OF MORALITY
+FOR THE INSTRUCTION OF YOUTH.<br />
+<small>WITH SCRIPTURAL REFERENCES</small>.</p>
+
+<p class="center">Translated by <span class="smcap">A. Bolmar</span>, and <span class="smcap">E. K. Price</span></p>
+
+<p class="center">Half bound. Price 19 cents.</p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In One Volume, 12mo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">PICTURE OF PHILADELPHIA;</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">Or a brief account of the various institutions and public objects in this
+Metropolis, forming a Guide for Strangers, accompanied by a new
+Plan of the city. In a neat pocket volume.</p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In One Volume, 12mo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">THE HORSE
+<small>IN ALL HIS VARIETIES AND USES</small>;</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">His breeding, rearing, and management, whether in labour or rest;
+with <span class="smcap">Rules</span> occasionally interspersed, for his <span class="smcap">PRESERVATION</span> from
+disease. By <span class="smcap">John Lawrence</span>, author of "The History of the
+Horse," etc.</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"Independently of the practical value of the book, and it is really and
+extensively valuable, it is one of the most amusing the reader will meet
+with in a thousand, complete and unique, embracing every possible subject
+that can be connected with the horse."&mdash;<i>Monthly Magazine.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_225" id="Page_225">[225]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="blockquote right">
+CHESNUT STREET,<br />
+OCTOBER, 1833.<br />
+</p>
+
+<p class="center">NEW WORKS<br />
+PUBLISHED<br />
+<small>AND</small><br />
+PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION,<br />
+<small>BY</small><br />
+E. L. CAREY &amp; A. HART, PHILAD.</p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In two Volumes, 12mo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">THE ROU&Eacute;</p>
+
+<p class="center">By the author of the "<span class="smcap">Oxonians</span>."</p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In one Volume, 8vo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">A TREATISE ON<br />
+LESSER SURGERY;<br />
+<small>OR THE</small><br />
+MINOR SURGICAL OPERATIONS.</p>
+
+<p class="center">BY BOURGERY, D. M. P.</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">Author of "A Complete Treatise on Human Anatomy, comprising Operative
+Medicine," translated from the French, with notes,
+and an appendix; by</p>
+
+<p class="center">WILLIAM C. ROBERTS AND JAS. B. KISSAM.</p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In two Volumes, 12mo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">MANNERS OF THE DAY.<br />
+A NOVEL.</p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In one Volume, 12mo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">MAGENDIE'S FORMULARY.</p>
+
+<p class="center">A new Edition, revised and corrected.</p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In two Volumes, 12mo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">TALES OF THE MUNSTER FESTIVALS.</p>
+
+<p class="center">By the Author of the "<span class="smcap">Collegians</span>."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_226" id="Page_226">[226]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In Two Volumes, 12mo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">TRAVELS IN VARIOUS PARTS
+OF PERU;<br />
+<small>INCLUDING A YEAR'S RESIDENCE IN POTOSI</small>.</p>
+
+<p class="center">By <span class="smcap">Edmund Temple</span>, Kt. of the Royal and distinguished Order
+of <span class="smcap">Charles III</span>.</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"These travels in Peru will long maintain their reputation for the accuracy
+of detail, the spirit of the style, and the utility of the information
+they contain. The professional matter is very valuable."&mdash;<i>Bulwer's New
+Monthly Magazine.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"There is much to instruct, and a great deal to amuse. Amid the details
+of personal adventures, there is a great deal of shrewd and strong observation."&mdash;<i>London
+Monthly Magazine.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"We have met with no volumes of travels in that country with which,
+upon the whole, we have been so much pleased as the one before us."&mdash;<i>Baltimore
+Gazette.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"This is an instructive and entertaining work."&mdash;<i>National Gazette.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"This book is one of the most entertaining that has been issued from
+the press for some time."&mdash;<i>Pennsylvania Inquirer.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In Two Volumes, 12mo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">SYDENHAM;<br />
+<small>OR, MEMOIRS OF A MAN OF THE WORLD</small></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"A new novel of fashionable life, under the title of 'Sydenham, or Memoirs
+of a Man of the World,' will shortly be given to the public. It exhibits
+the history of a young man of rank and fortune, who, being of a
+decidedly satirical turn, resolves to gratify his favourite penchant to ascertain
+the internal state of fashionable society, and minutely to observe human
+nature under every variety of shade and circumstance. Among other
+characters with whom he comes in contact, is the celebrated <span class="smcap">Brummel</span>,
+who figures under the name of Beaumont: this gentleman arrests his
+peculiar attention, and serves him for a complete study. The work is,
+moreover, illustrative of those sets or circles in the world of ton which
+have never been depicted in the pages of fiction, and respecting which so
+much curiosity has long been felt."&mdash;<i>New Monthly Magazine.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"Each of these volumes is in fact a separate work&mdash;each in a different
+style and spirit&mdash;each aspiring to a different fame in composition. 'Sydenham'
+is a capital work, which, without the trouble of puffing, must
+make a great stir in the upper and political circles."&mdash;<i>London Lit. Gaz.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"Sydenham is well written, and contains much pleasant and some severe
+satire. The present Whig ministers in England are handled without
+gloves, and a number of distinguished personages occupy more conspicuous
+places than they would have been likely to choose, had the matter
+been referred to themselves."&mdash;<i>Courier.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"The work before us is one of the most powerful of its class; it bears
+intrinsic evidence of a new writer. The portrait of Brummel, the 'arch
+dandy,' is excellent; and all the scenes in which he is engaged are managed
+with skill and tact. There is, in fact, sufficient material in this book
+for three or four novels."&mdash;<i>New Monthly Magazine.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"All the personages are of course real, though under fictitious names;
+these pages are, in reality, memoirs of the intrigues of the times, full of
+keen observation, graphic sketches of character, biting sarcasm, one page
+of which would make the fortune of a pamphlet."&mdash;<i>London Gazette.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_227" id="Page_227">[227]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In Two Volumes, 12mo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">RECORDS OF TRAVELS
+IN TURKEY, GREECE, &amp;c.
+IN THE YEARS 1829, 1830, AND 1831;<br />
+<small>AND OF A CRUISE IN THE BLACK SEA, WITH THE CAPTAIN PASHA</small>.</p>
+
+<p class="center">BY ADOLPHUS SLADE, <span class="smcap">Esq.</span></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"One of the most valuable and interesting works which has yet been
+placed in our hands, on the domestic state of Turkey."&mdash;<i>Monthly Review.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"We do not know when we have met with two volumes more amusing&mdash;they
+are full of highly entertaining and curious matter."&mdash;<i>Court Jour.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"The work before us supplies the best description of this remarkable
+nation."&mdash;<i>Courier.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"One of the most amusing and interesting of oriental travellers, none
+having ever equalled him in a thorough knowledge of the true state of
+society, and the true character of the Turks."&mdash;<i>Spectator.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"We can warmly recommend this book for perusal, it is not only very
+amusing but very valuable."&mdash;<i>Metropolitan.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"We can assure our readers that no records of travels in modern times,
+with which we are acquainted, presents so many features of general attraction
+as the volumes before us."&mdash;<i>London Monthly Review.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"Mr. Slade has produced, without any trace of pretension, one of the
+most sensible and agreeable books of travel we have ever had the pleasure
+to peruse."&mdash;<i>United Service Journal.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In Two Volumes, 12mo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">LEGENDS OF THE RHINE.</p>
+
+<p class="center">By <span class="smcap">T. C. Grattan</span>, Esq. Author of "<span class="smcap">High-ways and By-ways</span>."</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"We are well content to pass an hour once more with the lively and
+entertaining author of 'High-ways and By-ways." The hour has not yet
+gone by, and we have not completed the perusal of the two volumes; but
+the tales we have observed are worthy the repute in which the writer is
+held, and are even of a higher order&mdash;more chaste in language and perfect
+in style."&mdash;<i>Boston Traveller.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"Messrs. Carey and Hart have just issued 'Legends of the Rhine,' by the
+author of 'High-ways and By-ways.' To those who recollect Mr. Grattan's
+former writings, (and who among novel readers does not?) it is only
+necessary to say, that the present 'Legends' are, in no respect, inferior to
+their predecessors. The traditions which he has here wrought into shape
+are all said to have an existence among the dwellers near the mighty river;
+and it is certain they are full of romantic interest. The 'Legends' are
+twelve in number, and, though not equal in all respects, there is no one
+of them that does not possess a strong claim to admiration."&mdash;<i>Saturday
+Courier.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"Few sets of stories, published within the last ten years, have been more
+popular than those called 'High-ways and By-ways.' The author of these,
+after having produced two or three successful works of a different sort, has
+given us two volumes of tales, with the title 'Legends of the Rhine,'
+which are to be published to-morrow, we understand, by Carey and Hart.
+The author professes, seriously, to have founded his narratives on traditions
+yet extant among those who live near the banks of the great German
+river; and many of them end so tragically that we can hardly suspect the
+writer of having invented them for his own amusement or that of his
+readers. They are all interesting, though not all skilfully framed; and
+each of them contains pages that may be placed in a competition with the
+most shining passages of any other living novel writer.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_228" id="Page_228">[228]</a></span>"</p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In Two Volumes, 12mo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">STANLEY BUXTON;<br />
+<small>OR, THE SCHOOLFELLOWS</small>.</p>
+
+<p class="center">By <span class="smcap">John Galt</span>, Esq., Author of "<span class="smcap">Annals of the Parish</span>,"
+"<span class="smcap">Lawrie Todd</span>," "<span class="smcap">Eben Erskine</span>," etc.</p>
+
+<p class="blockquotesm">
+"While guile is guiltless, and life's business play,<br />
+Friendships are formed that never know decay."
+</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"Oh, that all novels were like this piece of admirable fiction."&mdash;<i>Spectator.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"We must say this work is in Mr. Galt's best style, the volume before
+us contains samples of his tastes and of his powers."&mdash;<i>Bulwer's New
+Monthly Magazine.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"Mr. Galt's new novel is on our table, and we regret we have not space
+to go further into the arcana of 'Stanley Buxton,' in which the author has
+aimed at painting natural feelings in situations not common, and with
+much success. Some of his descriptions are also deserving of special praise.
+Two episodes in the second volume add to the general interest, and further
+recommend the work to public favour."&mdash;<i>London Literary Gazette.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"We find in this work the force of conception, and the full execution
+which distinguish the 'Annals of the Parish,' and 'Lawrie Todd.'"&mdash;<i>Sun.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"The new novel, 'Stanley Buxton,' just published by Carey and Hart,
+may be called one of the very best of Mr. Galt's productions."&mdash;<i>Daily
+Chronicle.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"In 'Stanley Buxton' there is the same delightful freshness, the same
+striking originality of purpose, the same easy and flowing, yet racy and
+spirited manner which characterized the 'Annals of the Parish.'"&mdash;<i>Saturday
+Courier.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"For touching the heart, for keen knowledge of nature, and for quiet
+and beautiful descriptions, like the still life in a painter's sketch, Galt possesses
+a vision and a power, that are not often surpassed, except by Bulwer.
+The author of 'Stanley Buxton' is infinitely superior to D'Israeli,
+whose imagination is as excursive and capricious as the wing of a sea-fowl."&mdash;<i>Chronicle.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"Mr. Galt is a writer so well known and so deservedly admired, that the
+announcement of a new novel from his pen is sufficient to awaken general
+curiosity."&mdash;<i>Gazette.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In Two Volumes, 12mo.</p>
+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
+<p class="center">TOM CRINGLE'S LOG.</p>
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+<p class="blockquote">"The scenes are chiefly nautical, and we can safely say, that no author
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+
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+affording an accurate and vivid description of scenery, and of life and manners
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+
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+not Cooper; but he is far superior to them both."&mdash;<i>Boston Transcript.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"The scenes are chiefly nautical, and are described in a style of beauty
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In One Volume, 8vo.</p>
+
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+
+<p class="center">RESEARCHES<br />
+
+<small>PRINCIPALLY RELATIVE TO</small><br />
+
+THE MORBID AND CURATIVE EFFECTS OF LOSS
+OF BLOOD.</p>
+
+<p class="center">BY MARSHALL HALL, M.D., F.R.S.E., &amp;c. &amp;c.</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"It will be seen that we have been much pleased with Dr. Hall's work
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+
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+but we know some have perished from direct exhaustion complicated
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+Surg. Journal, No. XX. for October, 1830.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In One Volume, 8vo.</p>
+
+<p class="center"><i>TEALE ON NEURALGIC DISEASES.</i></p>
+
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+ON NEURALGIC DISEASES,</p>
+
+<p class="center">Dependent upon Irritation of the Spinal Marrow and Ganglia of the
+Sympathetic Nerve.</p>
+
+<p class="center">By <span class="smcap">Thomas Pridgin Teale</span>.</p>
+
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+
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+
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+and misstatement with which we are beset, and cannot too highly
+recommend it to the attention of the profession."&mdash;<i>American Journal of
+the Medical Sciences, No. X.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In One Volume, 8vo.</p>
+
+<p class="center"><small>SELECT SPEECHES OF</small><br />
+JOHN SERGEANT<br />
+<small>OF PENNSYLVANIA</small>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_231" id="Page_231">[231]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="center">SELECT<br />
+MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL TRANSACTIONS.</p>
+
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+and Licentiates of the King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland;
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+London and Edinburgh; the Royal Academy of Turin; the Medical
+and Anatomical Societies of Paris, &amp;c. &amp;c. &amp;c.</p>
+
+<p class="center">
+Edited by <span class="smcap">Isaac Hays, M.D.</span>
+</p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In One Volume, 8vo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">A PRACTICAL
+COMPENDIUM OF MIDWIFERY:</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">Being the course of Lectures on Midwifery, and on the Diseases of
+Women and Infants, delivered at St. Bartholemew's Hospital.</p>
+
+<p class="center">
+By the late <span class="smcap">Robert Gooch, M.D.</span>
+</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"As it abounds, however, in valuable and original suggestions, it will
+be found a useful book of reference."&mdash;<i>Drake's Western Journal.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In One Volume, 8vo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">AN ACCOUNT OF<br />
+<small>SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT</small><br />
+DISEASES PECULIAR TO WOMEN;</p>
+
+<p class="center">BY ROBERT GOOCH, M.D.</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"In this volume Dr. Gooch has made a valuable contribution to practical
+medicine. It is the result of the observation and experience of a strong,
+sagacious, and disciplined mind."&mdash;<i>Transylvania Journal of Medicine.</i></p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"This work, which is now for the first time presented to the profession
+in the United States, comes to them with high claims to their notice."&mdash;<i>Drake's
+Western Journal.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In Two Volumes, 12mo</p>
+
+<p class="center">FRESCATIS;<br />
+OR, SCENES IN PARIS.</p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In One Volume, 18mo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">COLMAN'S BROAD GRINS.</p>
+
+<p class="center"><small>A NEW EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS.</small><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_232" id="Page_232">[232]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In One Volume, 12mo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">THE GROOM'S ORACLE, AND
+POCKET STABLE DIRECTORY.</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">In which the Management of Horses generally, as to Health, Dieting,
+and Exercise, is considered, in a Series of Familiar Dialogues between
+two Grooms engaged in training Horses to their work, as well for the
+Road as the Chase and Turf. By <span class="smcap">John Hinds, V.S.</span>, Author of the
+"Veterinary Surgeon." Embellished with an elegant Frontispiece, by
+<span class="smcap">S. Alken</span>. First American, from the second London Edition. With
+considerable additions, and an appendix, including the <span class="smcap">Receipt Book
+of John Hinds, V.S.</span></p>
+
+<p  class="blockquote">"This enlarged edition of the 'Groom's Oracle' contains a good number
+of new points connected with training prime horses; and the owners
+of working cattle, also, will find their profit in consulting the practical
+remarks that are applicable to their teams; on the principle that <i>health
+preserved</i> is better than <i>disease removed</i>."</p>
+
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+recent publications; it ought to be in the possession of every gentleman,
+who either has in possession, or has a chance of possessing, the noble animal
+to whose proper treatment the author has directed his enlightened researches."&mdash;<i>Taunton
+Courier, 1830.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">REFLECTIONS<br />
+ON EVERY DAY IN THE WEEK,
+<small>WITH OCCASIONAL THOUGHTS</small>.</p>
+
+<p class="center">BY CATHARINE TALBOT.</p>
+
+<p class="center">Neatly done up in paper with gilt edges. Price 20 cents.</p>
+
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+thought, than by sound and correct judgment. The little work will
+be read by no one without profit."&mdash;<i>Saturday Evening Post.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In One Volume, 8vo.</p>
+
+<p class="center"><i>TATE ON HYSTERIA.</i><br />
+
+A TREATISE ON "HYSTERIA."</p>
+
+<p class="center">BY GEORGE TATE, M.D.</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"As public journalists, we take this occasion to return him our hearty
+thanks for the pains he has taken to shed a new light on an obscure and
+much-neglected topic."&mdash;<i>North Amer. Med. and Surg. Journ. No. XIX.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_233" id="Page_233">[233]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In One Volume, 12mo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">A SUBALTERN IN AMERICA;<br />
+<small>COMPRISING<br />
+HIS NARRATIVE OF THE CAMPAIGNS OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT BALTIMORE,<br />
+WASHINGTON, ETC. DURING THE LATE WAR.</small></p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In Two Volumes, 12mo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">NIGHTS-AT-MESS.</p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In Two Volumes, 8vo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">NATURE DISPLAYED<br />
+<small>IN HER MODE OF TEACHING LANGUAGE TO MAN</small>;</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">Being a new and infallible method of acquiring languages with unparalleled
+rapidity; deduced from the Analysis of the human Mind,
+and consequently suited to every capacity; adapted to the French,</p>
+
+<p class="center">BY N. G. DUFIEF.</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">To which is prefixed a development of the author's plan of tuition:
+differing entirely from every other; so powerful in its operation and
+so very economical, that a liberal education can be afforded even to
+the poorest of mankind.</p>
+
+<p class="center">EIGHTH EDITION, ENLARGED AND IMPROVED.</p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In Two Volumes, 8vo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">DUFIEF'S SPANISH NATURE DISPLAYED.</p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In Two Volumes, 8vo.</p>
+
+<p class="center">A NEW UNIVERSAL AND
+PRONOUNCING DICTIONARY
+OF THE FRENCH AND ENGLISH LANGUAGES.</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">Containing above <i>fifty thousand</i> terms and names not to be found in
+the Dictionaries of Boyer, Perry, Nugent, &amp;c. &amp;c.; to which is added
+a vast fund of other information equally beneficial and instructive.</p>
+
+<p class="center">BY N. G. DUFIEF.</p>
+
+<p class="center">A new Edition, revised and corrected by the Author.
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_234" id="Page_234">[234]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In One Volume, 18mo.</p>
+
+<p class="center"><i>THE SURGEON-DENTIST'S MANUAL.</i></p>
+
+<p class="center">THE SURGEON-DENTIST'S ANATOMICAL AND
+PHYSIOLOGICAL MANUAL.</p>
+
+<p class="center">By <span class="smcap">G. Wait</span>.</p>
+
+<p class="center">Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, &amp;c. &amp;c.</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"The work cannot fail, we think, to answer well the purpose for which
+it was designed, of a manual for the practical dentist; and in the notes
+will be found many useful hints respecting the diseases of these structures."&mdash;<i>Boston
+Med. and Surg. Journ. 1830.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">MANUAL OF SURGICAL OPERATIONS.<br />
+<small>CONTAINING THE</small><br />
+NEW METHOD OF OPERATING</p>
+
+<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Devised by Lisfranc.</span></p>
+
+<p class="center">Followed by two Synoptic Tables of Natural and Instrumental Labours.</p>
+
+<p class="center">By <span class="smcap">J. Coster, M.D.</span> and P. of the University of Turin.</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">"Dr. John D. Godman, Lecturer on Anatomy, in this city, a gentleman
+of distinguished professional and literary talents, having translated this
+small, but valuable volume, for the benefit of the students who may honour
+our University by their attendance, I shall merely refer to that work.
+I have more pleasure in recommending, inasmuch as a short system of
+operative surgery has been a desideratum."&mdash;<i>Gibson's Surgery, Vol. II.
+page 541.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">In One Volume, 8vo.</p>
+
+<p class="center"><i>SAISSY ON THE EAR.</i><br />
+DISEASES OF THE INTERNAL EAR.</p>
+
+<p class="center">BY J. A. SAISSY.</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Literature, and Arts in Lyons,
+Fellow of the Medical Society of the same city, and of the Medical Societies
+of Bordeaux, Orleans, Marseilles, &amp;c. Honoured with a premium by
+the Medical Society of Bordeaux, and since enlarged by the author.</p>
+
+<p class="blockquote">Translated from the French by <span class="smcap">Nathan R. Smith</span>, Professor of Surgery
+in the University of Maryland, with a Supplement on Diseases
+of the External Ear, by the Translator.</p>
+
+<hr class="r15" />
+
+<p class="center">FROISSART AND HIS TIMES.</p>
+
+<p class="center">BY THE LATE BARRY ST. LEGER.</p>
+
+<hr class="r65" />
+
+<h2>Transcriber Notes</h2>
+
+<p class="blockquotetn">
+Obvious punctuation and spelling errors have been corrected.<br />
+
+<b>The following are as in the original:</b><br />
+
+Major Russell and Major Russel are used interchangeably in the
+book.<br />
+
+<b>Page 4</b> original: and the trick he has played off on the publick.<br />
+
+<b>Page 10</b> its versus it's original: use, its just nobody's business. Big
+men<br />
+
+<b>Page 86</b> (scroundrell's) original: old scroundrell's two big sons
+with us, and made<br />
+
+<b>Page 119</b> flower is old english for flour original: man a cupfull of
+flower. With this, we thickened<br />
+
+
+<b>Page 168</b> bran-fire and branfire original: This is," said I, "a
+branfire new way of doing - clearly not hypenated in this line.<br />
+
+
+<b>The following changes have been made:</b><br />
+
+<b>Page 17</b> original: bioagraphers, I should not only inform the public<br />
+
+replacement: biographers, I should not only inform the public<br />
+
+<b>Page 141</b>original: and years all open, to catch every word I would<br />
+
+replacement: and ears all open, to catch every word I would<br />
+
+<b>Page 158</b> original: where I stop'd to pull of my wet clothes, and
+put<br />
+
+replacement: where I stop'd to pull off my wet clothes, and put<br />
+
+<b>Page 230</b> original: and mistatement with which we are beset,<br />
+
+replacement: and misstatement with which we are beset,
+</p>
+<hr class="r65" />
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<pre>
+
+
+
+
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett,
+of the State of Tennessee., by Davy Crockett
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
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+Title: A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee.
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+Author: Davy Crockett
+
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+
+          NARRATIVE
+
+            OF THE
+
+    LIFE OF DAVID CROCKETT,
+    OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE.
+
+
+  I leave this rule for others when I'm dead,
+  Be always sure you're right--THEN GO AHEAD!
+
+                                  THE AUTHOR.
+
+
+       WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.
+
+         SIXTH EDITION.
+
+  PHILADELPHIA.
+  E. L. CAREY AND A. HART.
+  BALTIMORE:
+  CAREY, HART & CO.
+
+  1834.
+
+
+  Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1834,
+                    BY DAVID CROCKETT,
+  In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia.
+
+
+  STEREOTYPED BY L. JOHNSON,
+  PHILADELPHIA.
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE.
+
+
+Fashion is a thing I care mighty little about, except when it happens to
+run just exactly according to my own notion; and I was mighty nigh
+sending out my book without any preface at all, until a notion struck
+me, that perhaps it was necessary to explain a little the reason why and
+wherefore I had written it.
+
+Most of authors seek fame, but I seek for justice,--a holier impulse
+than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that
+_fickle_, _flirting_ goddess.
+
+A publication has been made to the world, which has done me much
+injustice; and the catchpenny errors which it contains, have been
+already too long sanctioned by my silence. I don't know the author of
+the book--and indeed I don't want to know him; for after he has taken
+such a liberty with my name, and made such an effort to hold me up to
+publick ridicule, he cannot calculate on any thing but my displeasure. If
+he had been content to have written his opinions about me, however
+contemptuous they might have been, I should have had less reason to
+complain. But when he professes to give my narrative (as he often does)
+in my own language, and then puts into my mouth such language as would
+disgrace even an outlandish African, he must himself be sensible of the
+injustice he has done me, and the trick he has played off on the publick.
+I have met with hundreds, if not with thousands of people, who have
+formed their opinions of my appearance, habits, language, and every
+thing else from that deceptive work.
+
+They have almost in every instance expressed the most profound
+astonishment at finding me in human shape, and with the _countenance_,
+_appearance_, and _common feelings_ of a human being. It is to correct
+all these false notions, and to do justice to myself, that I have
+written.
+
+It is certain that the writer of the book alluded to has gathered up
+many imperfect scraps of information concerning me, as in parts of his
+work there is some little semblance of truth. But I ask him, if this
+notice should ever reach his eye, how would he have liked it, if I had
+treated _him_ so?--if I had put together such a bundle of ridiculous
+stuff, and headed it with _his_ name, and sent it out upon the world
+without ever even condescending to ask _his_ permission? To these
+questions, all upright men must give the same answer. It was wrong; and
+the desire to make money by it, is no apology for such injustice to a
+fellow man.
+
+But I let him pass; as my wish is greatly more to vindicate myself, than
+to condemn him.
+
+In the following pages I have endeavoured to give the reader a plain,
+honest, homespun account of my state in life, and some few of the
+difficulties which have attended me along its journey, down to this
+time. I am perfectly aware, that I have related many small and, as I
+fear, uninteresting circumstances; but if so, my apology is, that it was
+rendered necessary by a desire to link the different periods of my life
+together, as they have passed, from my childhood onward, and thereby to
+enable the reader to select such parts of it as he may relish most, if,
+indeed, there is any thing in it which may suit his palate.
+
+I have also been operated on by another consideration. It is this:--I
+know, that obscure as I am, my name is making a considerable deal of
+fuss in the world. I can't tell why it is, nor in what it is to end. Go
+where I will, everybody seems anxious to get a peep at me; and it would
+be hard to tell which would have the advantage, if I, and the
+"Government," and "Black Hawk," and a great eternal big caravan of _wild
+varments_ were all to be showed at the same time in four different parts
+of any of the big cities in the nation. I am not so sure that I
+shouldn't get the most custom of any of the crew. There must therefore
+be something in me, or about me, that attracts attention, which is even
+mysterious to myself. I can't understand it, and I therefore put all the
+facts down, leaving the reader free to take his choice of them.
+
+On the subject of my style, it is bad enough, in all conscience, to
+please critics, if that is what they are after. They are a sort of
+vermin, though, that I sha'n't even so much as stop to brush off. If
+they want to work on my book, just let them go ahead; and after they are
+done, they had better blot out all their criticisms, than to know what
+opinion I would express of _them_, and by what sort of a curious name I
+would call _them_, if I was standing near them, and looking over their
+shoulders. They will, at most, have only their trouble for their pay.
+But I rather expect I shall have them on my side.
+
+But I don't know of any thing in my book to be criticised on by
+honourable men. Is it on my spelling?--that's not my trade. Is it on my
+grammar?--I hadn't time to learn it, and make no pretensions to it. Is
+it on the order and arrangement of my book?--I never wrote one before,
+and never read very many; and, of course, know mighty little about that.
+Will it be on the authorship of the book?--this I claim, and I'll hang
+on to it, like a wax plaster. The whole book is my own, and every
+sentiment and sentence in it. I would not be such a fool, or knave
+either, as to deny that I have had it hastily run over by a friend or
+so, and that some little alterations have been made in the spelling and
+grammar; and I am not so sure that it is not the worse of even that, for
+I despise this way of spelling contrary to nature. And as for grammar,
+it's pretty much a thing of nothing at last, after all the fuss that's
+made about it. In some places, I wouldn't suffer either the spelling, or
+grammar, or any thing else to be touch'd; and therefore it will be found
+in my own way.
+
+But if any body complains that I have had it looked over, I can only
+say to him, her, or them--as the case may be--that while critics were
+learning grammar, and learning to spell, I, and "Doctor Jackson, L.L.D."
+were fighting in the wars; and if our books, and messages, and
+proclamations, and cabinet writings, and so forth, and so on, should
+need a little looking over, and a little correcting of the spelling and
+the grammar to make them fit for use, its just nobody's business. Big
+men have more important matters to attend to than crossing their
+_t_'s--, and dotting their _i_'s--, and such like small things. But the
+"Government's" name is to the proclamation, and my name's to the book;
+and if I didn't write the book, the "Government" didn't write the
+proclamation, which no man _dares to deny_!
+
+But just read for yourself, and my ears for a heel tap, if before you
+get through you don't say, with many a good-natured smile and hearty
+laugh, "This is truly the very thing itself--the exact image of its
+Author,
+
+                          DAVID CROCKETT."
+
+  WASHINGTON CITY,
+  February 1st, 1834.
+
+
+
+
+                   NARRATIVE
+
+                    OF THE
+
+             LIFE OF DAVID CROCKETT.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER I.
+
+
+As the public seem to feel some interest in the history of an individual
+so humble as I am, and as that history can be so well known to no person
+living as to myself, I have, after so long a time, and under many
+pressing solicitations from my friends and acquaintances, at last
+determined to put my own hand to it, and lay before the world a
+narrative on which they may at least rely as being true. And seeking no
+ornament or colouring for a plain, simple tale of truth, I throw aside
+all hypocritical and fawning apologies, and, according to my own maxim,
+just "_go ahead_." Where I am not known, I might, perhaps, gain some
+little credit by having thrown around this volume some of the flowers of
+learning; but where I am known, the vile cheatery would soon be
+detected, and like the foolish jackdaw, that with a _borrowed_ tail
+attempted to play the peacock, I should be justly robbed of my pilfered
+ornaments, and sent forth to strut without a tail for the balance of my
+time. I shall commence my book with what little I have learned of the
+history of my father, as all _great men_ rest many, if not most, of
+their hopes on their noble ancestry. Mine was poor, but I hope honest,
+and even that is as much as many a man can say. But to my subject.
+
+My father's name was John Crockett, and he was of Irish descent. He was
+either born in Ireland or on a passage from that country to America
+across the Atlantic. He was by profession a farmer, and spent the early
+part of his life in the state of Pennsylvania. The name of my mother was
+Rebecca Hawkins. She was an American woman, born in the state of
+Maryland, between York and Baltimore. It is likely I may have heard
+where they were married, but if so, I have forgotten. It is, however,
+certain that they were, or else the public would never have been
+troubled with the history of David Crockett, their son.
+
+I have an imperfect recollection of the part which I have understood my
+father took in the revolutionary war. I personally know nothing about
+it, for it happened to be a little before my day; but from himself, and
+many others who were well acquainted with its troubles and afflictions,
+I have learned that he was a soldier in the revolutionary war, and took
+part in that bloody struggle. He fought, according to my information, in
+the battle at Kings Mountain against the British and tories, and in some
+other engagements of which my remembrance is too imperfect to enable me
+to speak with any certainty. At some time, though I cannot say certainly
+when, my father, as I have understood, lived in Lincoln county, in the
+state of North Carolina. How long, I don't know. But when he removed
+from there, he settled in that district of country which is now embraced
+in the east division of Tennessee, though it was not then erected into a
+state.
+
+He settled there under dangerous circumstances, both to himself and his
+family, as the country was full of Indians, who were at that time very
+troublesome. By the Creeks, my grandfather and grandmother Crockett were
+both murdered, in their own house, and on the very spot of ground where
+Rogersville, in Hawkins county, now stands. At the same time, the
+Indians wounded Joseph Crockett, a brother to my father, by a ball,
+which broke his arm; and took James a prisoner, who was still a younger
+brother than Joseph, and who, from natural defects, was less able to
+make his escape, as he was both deaf and dumb. He remained with them for
+seventeen years and nine months, when he was discovered and recollected
+by my father and his eldest brother, William Crockett; and was purchased
+by them from an Indian trader, at a price which I do not now remember;
+but so it was, that he was delivered up to them, and they returned him
+to his relatives. He now lives in Cumberland county, in the state of
+Kentucky, though I have not seen him for many years.
+
+My father and mother had six sons and three daughters. I was the fifth
+son. What a pity I hadn't been the seventh! For then I might have been,
+by _common consent_, called _doctor_, as a heap of people get to be
+great men. But, like many of them, I stood no chance to become great in
+any other way than by accident. As my father was very poor, and living
+as he did _far back in the back woods_, he had neither the means nor the
+opportunity to give me, or any of the rest of his children, any
+learning.
+
+But before I get on the subject of my own troubles, and a great many
+very funny things that have happened to me, like all other historians
+and biographers, I should not only inform the public that I was born,
+myself, as well as other folks, but that this important event took
+place, according to the best information I have received on the subject,
+on the 17th of August, in the year 1786; whether by day or night, I
+believe I never heard, but if I did I, have forgotten. I suppose,
+however, it is not very material to my present purpose, nor to the
+world, as the more important fact is well attested, that I was born;
+and, indeed, it might be inferred, from my present size and appearance,
+that I was pretty _well born_, though I have never yet attached myself
+to that numerous and worthy society.
+
+At that time my father lived at the mouth of Lime Stone, on the
+Nola-chucky river; and for the purpose not only of showing what sort of
+a man I now am, but also to show how soon I began to be a _sort of a
+little man_, I have endeavoured to take the _back track_ of life, in
+order to fix on the first thing that I can remember. But even then, as
+now, so many things were happening, that as Major Jack Downing would
+say, they are all in "a pretty considerable of a snarl," and I find it
+"kinder hard" to fix on that thing, among them all, which really
+happened first. But I think it likely, I have hit on the outside line
+of my recollection; as one thing happened at which I was so badly
+scared, that it seems to me I could not have forgotten it, if it had
+happened a little time only after I was born. Therefore it furnishes me
+with no certain evidence of my age at the time; but I know one thing
+very well, and that is, that when it happened, I had no knowledge of the
+use of breeches, for I had never had any nor worn any.
+
+But the circumstance was this: My four elder brothers, and a well-grown
+boy of about fifteen years old, by the name of Campbell, and myself,
+were all playing on the river's side; when all the rest of them got into
+my father's canoe, and put out to amuse themselves on the water, leaving
+me on the shore alone.
+
+Just a little distance below them, there was a fall in the river, which
+went slap-right straight down. My brothers, though they were little
+fellows, had been used to paddling the canoe, and could have carried it
+safely anywhere about there; but this fellow Campbell wouldn't let them
+have the paddle, but, fool like, undertook to manage it himself. I
+reckon he had never seen a water craft before; and it went just any way
+but the way he wanted it. There he paddled, and paddled, and
+paddled--all the while going wrong,--until,--in a short time, here they
+were all going, straight forward, stern foremost, right plump to the
+falls; and if they had only had a fair shake, they would have gone over
+as slick as a whistle. It was'ent this, though, that scared me; for I
+was so infernal mad that they had left me on the shore, that I had as
+soon have seen them all go over the falls a bit, as any other way. But
+their danger was seen by a man by the name of Kendall, but I'll be shot
+if it was Amos; for I believe I would know him yet if I was to see him.
+This man Kendall was working in a field on the bank, and knowing there
+was no time to lose, he started full tilt, and here he come like a cane
+brake afire; and as he ran, he threw off his coat, and then his jacket,
+and then his shirt, for I know when he got to the water he had nothing
+on but his breeches. But seeing him in such a hurry, and tearing off his
+clothes as he went, I had no doubt but that the devil or something else
+was after him--and close on him, too--as he was running within an inch
+of his life. This alarmed me, and I screamed out like a young painter.
+But Kendall didn't stop for this. He went ahead with all might, and as
+full bent on saving the boys, as Amos was on moving the deposites. When
+he came to the water he plunged in, and where it was too deep to wade
+he would swim, and where it was shallow enough he went bolting on; and
+by such exertion as I never saw at any other time in my life, he reached
+the canoe, when it was within twenty or thirty feet of the falls; and so
+great was the suck, and so swift the current, that poor Kendall had a
+hard time of it to stop them at last, as Amos will to stop the mouths of
+the people about his stockjobbing. But he hung on to the canoe, till he
+got it stop'd, and then draw'd it out of danger. When they got out, I
+found the boys were more scared than I had been, and the only thing that
+comforted me was, the belief that it was a punishment on them for
+leaving me on shore.
+
+Shortly after this, my father removed, and settled in the same county,
+about ten miles above Greenville.
+
+There another circumstance happened, which made a lasting impression on
+my memory, though I was but a small child. Joseph Hawkins, who was a
+brother to my mother, was in the woods hunting for deer. He was passing
+near a thicket of brush, in which one of our neighbours was gathering
+some grapes, as it was in the fall of the year, and the grape season.
+The body of the man was hid by the brush, and it was only as he would
+raise his hand to pull the bunches, that any part of him could be seen.
+It was a likely place for deer; and my uncle, having no suspicion that
+it was any human being, but supposing the raising of the hand to be the
+occasional twitch of a deer's ear, fired at the lump, and as the devil
+would have it, unfortunately shot the man through the body. I saw my
+father draw a silk handkerchief through the bullet hole, and entirely
+through his body; yet after a while he got well, as little as any one
+would have thought it. What become of him, or whether he is dead or
+alive, I don't know; but I reckon he did'ent fancy the business of
+gathering grapes in an out-of-the-way thicket soon again.
+
+The next move my father made was to the mouth of Cove creek, where he
+and a man by the name of Thomas Galbreath undertook to build a mill in
+partnership. They went on very well with their work until it was nigh
+done, when there came the second epistle to Noah's fresh, and away went
+their mill, shot, lock, and barrel. I remember the water rose so high,
+that it got up into the house we lived in, and my father moved us out of
+it, to keep us from being drowned. I was now about seven or eight years
+old, and have a pretty distinct recollection of every thing that was
+going on. From his bad luck in that business, and being ready to wash
+out from mill building, my father again removed, and this time settled
+in Jefferson county, now in the state of Tennessee; where he opened a
+tavern on the road from Abbingdon to Knoxville.
+
+His tavern was on a small scale, as he was poor; and the principal
+accommodations which he kept, were for the waggoners who travelled the
+road. Here I remained with him until I was twelve years old; and about
+that time, you may guess, if you belong to Yankee land, or reckon, if
+like me you belong to the back-woods, that I began to make up my
+acquaintance with hard times, and a plenty of them.
+
+An old Dutchman, by the name of Jacob Siler, who was moving from Knox
+county to Rockbridge, in the state of Virginia, in passing, made a stop
+at my father's house. He had a large stock of cattle, that he was
+carrying on with him; and I suppose made some proposition to my father
+to hire some one to assist him.
+
+Being hard run every way, and having no thought, as I believe, that I
+was cut out for a Congressman or the like, young as I was, and as little
+as I knew about travelling, or being from home, he hired me to the old
+Dutchman, to go four hundred miles on foot, with a perfect stranger that
+I never had seen until the evening before. I set out with a heavy heart,
+it is true, but I went ahead, until we arrived at the place, which was
+three miles from what is called the Natural Bridge, and made a stop at
+the house of a Mr. Hartley, who was father-in-law to Mr. Siler, who had
+hired me. My Dutch master was very kind to me, and gave me five or six
+dollars, being pleased, as he said, with my services.
+
+This, however, I think was a bait for me, as he persuaded me to stay
+with him, and not return any more to my father. I had been taught so
+many lessons of obedience by my father, that I at first supposed I was
+bound to obey this man, or at least I was afraid openly to disobey him;
+and I therefore staid with him, and tried to put on a look of perfect
+contentment until I got the family all to believe I was fully satisfied.
+I had been there about four or five weeks, when one day myself and two
+other boys were playing on the road-side, some distance from the house.
+There came along three waggons. One belonged to an old man by the name
+of Dunn, and the others to two of his sons. They had each of them a good
+team, and were all bound for Knoxville. They had been in the habit of
+stopping at my father's as they passed the road, and I knew them. I made
+myself known to the old gentleman, and informed him of my situation; I
+expressed a wish to get back to my father and mother, if they could fix
+any plan for me to do so. They told me that they would stay that night
+at a tavern seven miles from there, and that if I could get to them
+before day the next morning, they would take me home; and if I was
+pursued, they would protect me. This was a Sunday evening; I went back
+to the good old Dutchman's house, and as good fortune would have it, he
+and the family were out on a visit. I gathered my clothes, and what
+little money I had, and put them all together under the head of my bed.
+I went to bed early that night, but sleep seemed to be a stranger to me.
+For though I was a wild boy, yet I dearly loved my father and mother,
+and their images appeared to be so deeply fixed in my mind, that I could
+not sleep for thinking of them. And then the fear that when I should
+attempt to go out, I should be discovered and called to a halt, filled
+me with anxiety; and between my childish love of home, on the one hand,
+and the fears of which I have spoken, on the other, I felt mighty queer.
+
+But so it was, about three hours before day in the morning I got up to
+make my start. When I got out, I found it was snowing fast, and that the
+snow was then on the ground about eight inches deep. I had not even the
+advantage of moonlight, and the whole sky was hid by the falling snow,
+so that I had to guess at my way to the big road, which was about a half
+mile from the house. I however pushed ahead and soon got to it, and then
+pursued it, in the direction to the waggons.
+
+I could not have pursued the road if I had not guided myself by the
+opening it made between the timber, as the snow was too deep to leave
+any part of it to be known by either seeing or feeling.
+
+Before I overtook the waggons, the earth was covered about as deep as my
+knees; and my tracks filled so briskly after me, that by daylight, my
+Dutch master could have seen no trace which I left.
+
+I got to the place about an hour before day. I found the waggoners
+already stirring, and engaged in feeding and preparing their horses for
+a start. Mr. Dunn took me in and treated me with great kindness. My
+heart was more deeply impressed by meeting with such a friend, and "at
+such a time," than by wading the snow-storm by night, or all the other
+sufferings which my mind had endured. I warmed myself by the fire, for I
+was very cold, and after an early breakfast, we set out on our journey.
+The thoughts of home now began to take the entire possession of my mind,
+and I almost numbered the sluggish turns of the wheels, and much more
+certainly the miles of our travel, which appeared to me to count mighty
+slow. I continued with my kind protectors, until we got to the house of
+a Mr. John Cole, on Roanoke, when my impatience became so great, that I
+determined to set out on foot and go ahead by myself, as I could travel
+twice as fast in that way as the waggons could.
+
+Mr. Dunn seemed very sorry to part with me, and used many arguments to
+prevent me from leaving him. But home, poor as it was, again rushed on
+my memory, and it seemed ten times as dear to me as it ever had before.
+The reason was, that my parents were there, and all that I had been
+accustomed to in the hours of childhood and infancy was there; and there
+my anxious little heart panted also to be. We remained at Mr. Coles that
+night, and early in the morning I felt that I couldn't stay; so, taking
+leave of my friends the waggoners, I went forward on foot, until I was
+fortunately overtaken by a gentleman, who was returning from market, to
+which he had been with a drove of horses. He had a led horse, with a
+bridle and saddle on him, and he kindly offered to let me get on his
+horse and ride him. I did so, and was glad of the chance, for I was
+tired, and was, moreover, near the first crossing of Roanoke, which I
+would have been compelled to wade, cold as the water was, if I had not
+fortunately met this good man. I travelled with him in this way, without
+any thing turning up worth recording, until we got within fifteen miles
+of my father's house. There we parted, and he went on to Kentucky and I
+trudged on homeward, which place I reached that evening. The name of
+this kind gentleman I have entirely forgotten, and I am sorry for it;
+for it deserves a high place in my little book. A remembrance of his
+kindness to a little straggling boy, and a stranger to him, has however
+a resting place in my heart, and there it will remain as long as I
+live.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER II.
+
+
+Having gotten home, as I have just related, I remained with my father
+until the next fall, at which time he took it into his head to send me
+to a little country school, which was kept in the neighbourhood by a man
+whose name was Benjamin Kitchen; though I believe he was no way
+connected with the cabinet. I went four days, and had just began to
+learn my letters a little, when I had an unfortunate falling out with
+one of the scholars,--a boy much larger and older than myself. I knew
+well enough that though the school-house might do for a still hunt, it
+wouldn't do for _a drive_, and so I concluded to wait until I could get
+him out, and then I was determined to give him salt and vinegar. I
+waited till in the evening, and when the larger scholars were spelling,
+I slip'd out, and going some distance along his road, I lay by the
+way-side in the bushes, waiting for him to come along. After a while he
+and his company came on sure enough, and I pitched out from the bushes
+and set on him like a wild cat. I scratched his face all to a flitter
+jig, and soon made him cry out for quarters in good earnest. The fight
+being over, I went on home, and the next morning was started again to
+school; but do you think I went? No, indeed. I was very clear of it; for
+I expected the master would lick me up, as bad as I had the boy. So,
+instead of going to the school-house, I laid out in the woods all day
+until in the evening the scholars were dismissed, and my brothers, who
+were also going to school, came along, returning home. I wanted to
+conceal this whole business from my father, and I therefore persuaded
+them not to tell on me, which they agreed to.
+
+Things went on in this way for several days; I starting with them to
+school in the morning, and returning with them in the evening, but lying
+out in the woods all day. At last, however, the master wrote a note to
+my father, inquiring why I was not sent to school. When he read this
+note, he called me up, and I knew very well that I was in a devil of a
+hobble, for my father had been taking a few _horns_, and was in a good
+condition to make the fur fly. He called on me to know why I had not
+been at school? I told him I was afraid to go, and that the master
+would whip me; for I knew quite well if I was turned over to this old
+Kitchen, I should be cooked up to a cracklin, in little or no time. But
+I soon found that I was not to expect a much better fate at home; for my
+father told me, in a very angry manner, that he would whip me an eternal
+sight worse than the master, if I didn't start immediately to the
+school. I tried again to beg off; but nothing would do, but to go to the
+school. Finding me rather too slow about starting, he gathered about a
+two year old hickory, and broke after me. I put out with all my might,
+and soon we were both up to the top of our speed. We had a tolerable
+tough race for about a mile; but mind me, not on the school-house road,
+for I was trying to get as far the t'other way as possible. And I yet
+believe, if my father and the schoolmaster could both have levied on me
+about that time, I should never have been called on to sit in the
+councils of the nation, for I think they would have used me up. But
+fortunately for me, about this time, I saw just before me a hill, over
+which I made headway, like a young steamboat. As soon as I had passed
+over it, I turned to one side, and hid myself in the bushes. Here I
+waited until the old gentleman passed by, puffing and blowing, as tho'
+his steam was high enough to burst his boilers. I waited until he gave
+up the hunt, and passed back again: I then cut out, and went to the
+house of an acquaintance a few miles off, who was just about to start
+with a drove. His name was Jesse Cheek, and I hired myself to go with
+him, determining not to return home, as home and the school-house had
+both become too hot for me. I had an elder brother, who also hired to go
+with the same drove. We set out and went on through Abbingdon, and the
+county seat of Withe county, in the state of Virginia; and then through
+Lynchburgh, by Orange court-house, and Charlottesville, passing through
+what was called Chester Gap, on to a town called Front Royal, where my
+employer sold out his drove to a man by the name of Vanmetre; and I was
+started homeward again, in company with a brother of the first owner of
+the drove, with one horse between us; having left my brother to come on
+with the balance of the company.
+
+I traveled on with my new comrade about three days' journey; but much to
+his discredit, as I then thought, and still think, he took care all the
+time to ride, but never to tie; at last I told him to go ahead, and I
+would come when I got ready. He gave me four dollars to bear my expenses
+upwards of four hundred miles, and then cut out and left me.
+
+I purchased some provisions, and went on slowly, until at length I fell
+in with a waggoner, with whom I was disposed to scrape up a hasty
+acquaintance. I inquired where he lived, and where he was going, and all
+about his affairs. He informed me that he lived in Greenville,
+Tennessee, and was on his way to a place called Gerardstown, fifteen
+miles below Winchester. He also said, that after he should make his
+journey to that place, he would immediately return to Tennessee. His
+name was Adam Myers, and a jolly good fellow he seemed to be. On a
+little reflection, I determined to turn back and go with him, which I
+did; and we journeyed on slowly as waggons commonly do, but merrily
+enough. I often thought of home, and, indeed, wished bad enough to be
+there; but, when I thought of the school-house, and Kitchen, my master,
+and the race with my father, and the big hickory he carried, and of the
+fierceness of the storm of wrath that I had left him in, I was afraid to
+venture back; for I knew my father's nature so well, that I was certain
+his anger would hang on to him like a turkle does to a fisherman's toe,
+and that, if I went back in a hurry, he would give me the devil in three
+or four ways But I and the waggoner had traveled two days, when we met
+my brother, who, I before stated, I had left behind when the drove was
+sold out. He persuaded me to go home, but I refused. He pressed me hard,
+and brought up a great many mighty strong arguments to induce me to turn
+back again. He pictured the pleasure of meeting my mother, and my
+sisters, who all loved me dearly, and told me what uneasiness they had
+already suffered about me. I could not help shedding tears, which I did
+not often do, and my affections all pointed back to those dearest
+friends, and as I thought, nearly the only ones I had in the world; but
+then the promised whipping--that was the thing. It came right slap down
+on every thought of home; and I finally determined that make or break,
+hit or miss, I would just hang on to my journey, and go ahead with the
+waggoner. My brother was much grieved at our parting, but he went his
+way, and so did I. We went on until at last we got to Gerardstown, where
+the waggoner tried to get a back load, but he could not without going to
+Alexandria. He engaged to go there, and I concluded that I would wait
+until he returned. I set in to work for a man by the name of John Gray,
+at twenty-five cents per day. My labour, however, was light, such as
+ploughing in some small grain, in which I succeeded in pleasing the old
+man very well. I continued working for him until the waggoner got back,
+and for a good long time afterwards, as he continued to run his team
+back and forward, hauling to and from Baltimore. In the next spring,
+from the proceeds of my daily labour, small as it was, I was able to get
+me some decent clothes, and concluded I would make a trip with the
+waggoner to Baltimore, and see what sort of a place that was, and what
+sort of folks lived there. I gave him the balance of what money I had
+for safe keeping, which, as well as I recollect, was about seven
+dollars. We got on well enough until we came near Ellicott's Mills. Our
+load consisted of flour, in barrels. Here I got into the waggon for the
+purpose of changing my clothing, not thinking that I was in any danger;
+but while I was in there we were met by some wheel-barrow men, who were
+working on the road, and the horses took a scare and away they went,
+like they had seen a ghost. They made a sudden wheel around, and broke
+the waggon tongue slap, short off, as a pipe-stem; and snap went both of
+the axletrees at the same time, and of all devlish flouncing about of
+flour barrels that ever was seen, I reckon this took the beat. Even _a
+rat_ would have stood a bad chance in a _straight_ race among them, and
+not much better in a crooked one; for he would have been in a good way
+to be ground up as fine as ginger by their rolling over him. But this
+proved to me, that if a fellow is born to be hung, he will never be
+drowned; and, further, that if he is born for a seat in Congress, even
+flour barrels can't make a mash of him. All these dangers I escaped
+unhurt, though, like most of the office-holders of these times, for a
+while I was afraid to say my soul was my own; for I didn't know how soon
+I should be knocked into a cocked hat, and get my walking papers for
+another country.
+
+We put our load into another waggon, and hauled ours to a workman's shop
+in Baltimore, having delivered the flour, and there we intended to
+remain two or three days, which time was necessary to repair the runaway
+waggon. While I was there, I went, one day, down to the wharf, and was
+much delighted to see the big ships, and their sails all flying; for I
+had never seen any such things before, and, indeed, I didn't believe
+there were any such things in all nature. After a short time my
+curiosity induced me to step aboard of one, where I was met by the
+captain, who asked me if I didn't wish to take a voyage to London? I
+told him I did, for by this time I had become pretty well weaned from
+home, and I cared but little where I was, or where I went, or what
+become of me. He said he wanted just such a boy as I was, which I was
+glad to hear. I told him I would go and get my clothes, and go with him.
+He enquired about my parents, where they lived, and all about them. I
+let him know that they lived in Tennessee, many hundred miles off. We
+soon agreed about my intended voyage, and I went back to my friend, the
+waggoner, and informed him that I was going to London, and wanted my
+money and my clothes. He refused to let me have either, and swore that
+he would confine me, and take me back to Tennessee. I took it to heart
+very much, but he kept so close and constant a watch over me, that I
+found it impossible to escape from him, until he had started homeward,
+and made several days' journey on the road. He was, during this time,
+very ill to me, and threatened me with his waggon whip on several
+occasions. At length I resolved to leave him at all hazards; and so,
+before day, one morning, I got my clothes out of his waggon, and cut
+out, on foot, without a farthing of money to bear my expenses. For all
+other friends having failed, I determined then to throw myself on
+Providence, and see how that would use me. I had gone, however, only a
+few miles when I came up with another waggoner, and such was my
+situation, that I felt more than ever the necessity of endeavouring to
+find a friend. I therefore concluded I would seek for one in him. He was
+going westwardly, and very kindly enquired of me where I was travelling?
+My youthful resolution, which had brooked almost every thing else,
+rather gave way at this enquiry; for it brought the loneliness of my
+situation, and every thing else that was calculated to oppress me,
+directly to view. My first answer to his question was in a sprinkle of
+tears, for if the world had been given to me, I could not, at that
+moment, have helped crying. As soon as the storm of feeling was over, I
+told him how I had been treated by the waggoner but a little before, who
+kept what little money I had, and left me without a copper to buy even a
+morsel of food.
+
+He became exceedingly angry, and swore that he would make the other
+waggoner give up my money, pronouncing him a scoundrel, and many other
+hard names. I told him I was afraid to see him, for he had threatened me
+with his waggon whip, and I believed he would injure me. But my new
+friend was a very large, stout-looking man, and as resolute as a tiger.
+He bid me not to be afraid, still swearing he would have my money, or
+whip it out of the wretch who had it.
+
+We turned and went back about two miles, when we reached the place where
+he was. I went reluctantly; but I depended on my friend for protection.
+When we got there, I had but little to say; but approaching the
+waggoner, my friend said to him, "You damn'd rascal, you have treated
+this boy badly." To which he replied, it was my fault. He was then
+asked, if he did not get seven dollars of my money, which he confessed.
+It was then demanded of him; but he declared most solemnly, that he had
+not that amount in the world; that he had spent my money, and intended
+paying it back to me when we got to Tennessee. I then felt reconciled,
+and persuaded my friend to let him alone, and we returned to his waggon,
+geared up, and started. His name I shall never forget while my memory
+lasts; it was Henry Myers. He lived in Pennsylvania, and I found him
+what he professed to be, a faithful friend and a clever fellow.
+
+We traveled together for several days, but at length I concluded to
+endeavour to make my way homeward; and for that purpose set out again on
+foot, and alone. But one thing I must not omit. The last night I staid
+with Mr. Myers, was at a place where several other waggoners also
+staid. He told them, before we parted, that I was a poor little
+straggling boy, and how I had been treated; and that I was without
+money, though I had a long journey before me, through a land of
+strangers, where it was not even a wilderness.
+
+They were good enough to contribute a sort of money-purse, and presented
+me with three dollars. On this amount I travelled as far as Montgomery
+court-house, in the state of Virginia, where it gave out. I set in to
+work for a man by the name of James Caldwell, a month, for five dollars,
+which was about a shilling a day. When this time was out, I bound myself
+to a man by the name of Elijah Griffith, by trade a hatter, agreeing to
+work for him four years. I remained with him about eighteen months, when
+he found himself so involved in debt, that he broke up, and left the
+country. For this time I had received nothing, and was, of course, left
+without money, and with but very few clothes, and them very indifferent
+ones. I, however, set in again, and worked about as I could catch
+employment, until I got a little money, and some clothing; and once more
+cut out for home. When I reached New River, at the mouth of a small
+stream, called Little River, the white caps were flying so, that I
+couldn't get any body to attempt to put me across. I argued the case as
+well as I could, but they told me there was great danger of being
+capsized, and drowned, if I attempted to cross. I told them if I could
+get a canoe I would venture, caps or no caps. They tried to persuade me
+out of it; but finding they could not, they agreed I might take a canoe,
+and so I did, and put off. I tied my clothes to the rope of the canoe,
+to have them safe, whatever might happen. But I found it a mighty
+ticklish business, I tell you. When I got out fairly on the river, I
+would have given the world, if it had belonged to me, to have been back
+on shore. But there was no time to lose now, so I just determined to do
+the best I could, and the devil take the hindmost. I turned the canoe
+across the waves, to do which, I had to turn it nearly up the river, as
+the wind came from that way; and I went about two miles before I could
+land. When I struck land, my canoe was about half full of water, and I
+was as wet as a drowned rat. But I was so much rejoiced, that I scarcely
+felt the cold, though my clothes were frozen on me; and in this
+situation, I had to go above three miles, before I could find any house,
+or fire to warm at. I, however, made out to get to one at last, and then
+I thought I would warm the inside a little, as well as the outside,
+that there might be no grumbling.
+
+So I took "a leetle of the creater,"--that warmer of the cold, and
+cooler of the hot,--and it made me feel so good that I concluded it was
+like the negro's rabbit, "good any way." I passed on until I arrived in
+Sullivan county, in the state of Tennessee, and there I met with my
+brother, who had gone with me when I started from home with the cattle
+drove.
+
+I staid with him a few weeks, and then went on to my father's, which
+place I reached late in the evening. Several waggons were there for the
+night, and considerable company about the house. I enquired if I could
+stay all night, for I did not intend to make myself known, until I saw
+whether any of the family would find me out. I was told that I could
+stay, and went in, but had mighty little to say to any body. I had been
+gone so long, and had grown so much, that the family did not at first
+know me. And another, and perhaps a stronger reason was, they had no
+thought or expectation of me, for they all had long given me up for
+finally lost.
+
+After a while, we were all called to supper. I went with the rest. We
+had sat down to the table and begun to eat, when my eldest sister
+recollected me: she sprung up, ran and seized me around the neck, and
+exclaimed, "Here is my lost brother."
+
+My feelings at this time it would be vain and foolish for me to attempt
+to describe. I had often thought I felt before, and I suppose I had, but
+sure I am, I never had felt as I then did. The joy of my sisters and my
+mother, and, indeed, of all the family, was such that it humbled me, and
+made me sorry that I hadn't submitted to a hundred whippings, sooner
+than cause so much affliction as they had suffered on my account. I
+found the family had never heard a word of me from the time my brother
+left me. I was now almost _fifteen_ years old; and my increased age and
+size, together with the joy of my father, occasioned by my unexpected
+return, I was sure would secure me against my long dreaded whipping; and
+so they did. But it will be a source of astonishment to many, who
+reflect that I am now a member of the American Congress,--the most
+enlightened body of men in the world,--that at so advanced an age, the
+age of fifteen, I did not know the first letter in the book.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER III.
+
+
+I had remained for some short time at home with my father, when he
+informed me that he owed a man, whose name was Abraham Wilson, the sum
+of thirty-six dollars, and that if I would set in and work out the note,
+so as to lift it for him, he would discharge me from his service, and I
+might go free. I agreed to do this, and went immediately to the man who
+held my father's note, and contracted with him to work six months for
+it. I set in, and worked with all my might, not losing a single day in
+the six months. When my time was out, I got my father's note, and then
+declined working with the man any longer, though he wanted to hire me
+mighty bad. The reason was, it was a place where a heap of bad company
+met to drink and gamble, and I wanted to get away from them, for I
+know'd very well if I staid there, I should get a bad name, as nobody
+could be respectable that would live there. I therefore returned to my
+father, and gave him up his paper, which seemed to please him mightily,
+for though he was poor, he was an honest man, and always tried mighty
+hard to pay off his debts.
+
+I next went to the house of an honest old Quaker, by the name of John
+Kennedy, who had removed from North Carolina, and proposed to hire
+myself to him, at two shillings a day. He agreed to take me a week on
+trial; at the end of which he appeared pleased with my work, and
+informed me that he held a note on my father for forty dollars, and that
+he would give me that note if I would work for him six months. I was
+certain enough that I should never get any part of the note; but then I
+remembered it was my father that owed it, and I concluded it was my duty
+as a child to help him along, and ease his lot as much as I could. I
+told the Quaker I would take him up at his offer, and immediately went
+to work. I never visited my father's house during the whole time of this
+engagement, though he lived only fifteen miles off. But when it was
+finished, and I had got the note, I borrowed one of my employer's
+horses, and, on a Sunday evening, went to pay my parents a visit. Some
+time after I got there, I pulled out the note and handed it to my
+father, who supposed Mr. Kennedy had sent it for collection. The old man
+looked mighty sorry, and said to me he had not the money to pay it, and
+didn't know what he should do. I then told him I had paid it for him,
+and it was then his own; that it was not presented for collection, but
+as a present from me. At this, he shed a heap of tears; and as soon as
+he got a little over it, he said he was sorry he couldn't give me any
+thing, but he was not able, he was too poor.
+
+The next day, I went back to my old friend, the Quaker, and set in to
+work for him for some clothes; for I had now worked a year without
+getting any money at all, and my clothes were nearly all worn out, and
+what few I had left were mighty indifferent. I worked in this way for
+about two months; and in that time a young woman from North Carolina,
+who was the Quaker's niece, came on a visit to his house. And now I am
+just getting on a part of my history that I know I never can forget. For
+though I have heard people talk about hard loving, yet I reckon no poor
+devil in this world was ever cursed with such hard love as mine has
+always been, when it came on me. I soon found myself head over heels in
+love with this girl, whose name the public could make no use of; and I
+thought that if all the hills about there were pure chink, and all
+belonged to me, I would give them if I could just talk to her as I
+wanted to; but I was afraid to begin, for when I would think of saying
+any thing to her, my heart would begin to flutter like a duck in a
+puddle; and if I tried to outdo it and speak, it would get right smack
+up in my throat, and choak me like a cold potatoe. It bore on my mind in
+this way, till at last I concluded I must die if I didn't broach the
+subject; and so I determined to begin and hang on a trying to speak,
+till my heart would get out of my throat one way or t'other. And so one
+day at it I went, and after several trials I could say a little. I told
+her how well I loved her; that she was the darling object of my soul and
+body; and I must have her, or else I should pine down to nothing, and
+just die away with the consumption.
+
+I found my talk was not disagreeable to her; but she was an honest girl,
+and didn't want to deceive nobody. She told me she was engaged to her
+cousin, a son of the old Quaker. This news was worse to me than war,
+pestilence, or famine; but still I knowed I could not help myself. I saw
+quick enough my cake was dough, and I tried to cool off as fast as
+possible; but I had hardly safety pipes enough, as my love was so hot
+as mighty nigh to burst my boilers. But I didn't press my claims any
+more, seeing there was no chance to do any thing.
+
+I began now to think, that all my misfortunes growed out of my want of
+learning. I had never been to school but four days, as the reader has
+already seen, and did not yet know a letter.
+
+I thought I would try to go to school some; and as the Quaker had a
+married son, who was living about a mile and a half from him, and
+keeping a school, I proposed to him that I would go to school four days
+in the week, and work for him the other two, to pay my board and
+schooling. He agreed I might come on those terms; and so at it I went,
+learning and working back and forwards, until I had been with him nigh
+on to six months. In this time I learned to read a little in my primer,
+to write my own name, and to cypher some in the three first rules in
+figures. And this was all the schooling I ever had in my life, up to
+this day. I should have continued longer, if it hadn't been that I
+concluded I couldn't do any longer without a wife; and so I cut out to
+hunt me one.
+
+I found a family of very pretty little girls that I had known when very
+young. They had lived in the same neighborhood with me, and I had
+thought very well of them. I made an offer to one of them, whose name
+is nobody's business, no more than the Quaker girl's was, and I found
+she took it very well. I still continued paying my respects to her,
+until I got to love her as bad as I had the Quaker's niece; and I would
+have agreed to fight a whole regiment of wild cats if she would only
+have said she would have me. Several months passed in this way, during
+all of which time she continued very kind and friendly. At last, the son
+of the old Quaker and my first girl had concluded to bring their matter
+to a close, and my little queen and myself were called on to wait on
+them. We went on the day, and performed our duty as attendants. This
+made me worse than ever; and after it was over, I pressed my claim very
+hard on her, but she would still give me a sort of an evasive answer.
+However, I gave her mighty little peace, till she told me at last she
+would have me. I thought this was glorification enough, even without
+spectacles. I was then about eighteen years old. We fixed the time to be
+married; and I thought if that day come, I should be the happiest man in
+the created world, or in the moon, or any where else.
+
+I had by this time got to be mighty fond of the rifle, and had bought a
+capital one. I most generally carried her with me whereever I went, and
+though I had got back to the old Quaker's to live, who was a very
+particular man, I would sometimes slip out and attend the shooting
+matches, where they shot for beef; I always tried, though, to keep it a
+secret from him. He had at the same time a bound boy living with him,
+who I had gotten into almost as great a notion of the girls as myself.
+He was about my own age, and was deeply smitten with the sister to my
+intended wife. I know'd it was in vain to try to get the leave of the
+old man for my young associate to go with me on any of my courting
+frolics; but I thought I could fix a plan to have him along, which would
+not injure the Quaker, as we had no notion that he should ever know it.
+We commonly slept up-stairs, and at the gable end of the house there was
+a window. So one Sunday, when the old man and his family were all gone
+to meeting, we went out and cut a long pole, and, taking it to the
+house, we set it up on end in the corner, reaching up the chimney as
+high as the window. After this we would go up-stairs to bed, and then
+putting on our Sunday clothes, would go out at the window, and climb
+down the pole, take a horse apiece, and ride about ten miles to where
+his sweetheart lived, and the girl I claimed as my wife. I was always
+mighty careful to be back before day, so as to escape being found out;
+and in this way I continued my attentions very closely until a few days
+before I was to be married, or at least thought I was, for I had no fear
+that any thing was about to go wrong.
+
+Just now I heard of a shooting-match in the neighbourhood, right between
+where I lived and my girl's house; and I determined to kill two birds
+with one stone,--to go to the shooting match first, and then to see her.
+I therefore made the Quaker believe I was going to hunt for deer, as
+they were pretty plenty about in those parts; but, instead of hunting
+them, I went straight on to the shooting-match, where I joined in with a
+partner, and we put in several shots for the beef. I was mighty lucky,
+and when the match was over I had won the whole beef. This was on a
+Saturday, and my success had put me in the finest humour in the world.
+So I sold my part of the beef for five dollars in the real grit, for I
+believe that was before bank-notes was invented; at least, I had never
+heard of any. I now started on to ask for my wife; for, though the next
+Thursday was our wedding day, I had never said a word to her parents
+about it. I had always dreaded the undertaking so bad, that I had put
+the evil hour off as long as possible; and, indeed, I calculated they
+knowed me so well, they wouldn't raise any objection to having me for
+their son-in-law. I had a great deal better opinion of myself, I found,
+than other people had of me; but I moved on with a light heart, and my
+five dollars jingling in my pocket, thinking all the time there was but
+few greater men in the world than myself.
+
+In this flow of good humour I went ahead, till I got within about two
+miles of the place, when I concluded I would stop awhile at the house of
+the girl's uncle; where I might enquire about the family, and so forth,
+and so on. I was indeed just about ready to consider her uncle, my
+uncle; and her affairs, my affairs. When I went in, tho', I found her
+sister there. I asked how all was at home? In a minute I found from her
+countenance something was wrong. She looked mortified, and didn't answer
+as quick as I thought she ought, being it was her _brother-in-law_
+talking to her. However, I asked her again. She then burst into tears,
+and told me her sister was going to deceive me; and that she was to be
+married to another man the next day. This was as sudden to me as a clap
+of thunder of a bright sunshiny day. It was the cap-stone of all the
+afflictions I had ever met with; and it seemed to me, that it was more
+than any human creature could endure. It struck me perfectly speechless
+for some time, and made me feel so weak, that I thought I should sink
+down. I however recovered from my shock after a little, and rose and
+started without any ceremony, or even bidding any body good-bye. The
+young woman followed me out to the gate, and entreated me to go on to
+her father's, and said she would go with me. She said the young man, who
+was going to marry her sister, had got his license, and had asked for
+her; but she assured me her father and mother both preferred me to him;
+and that she had no doubt but that, if I would go on, I could break off
+the match. But I found I could go no further. My heart was bruised, and
+my spirits were broken down; so I bid her farewell, and turned my
+lonesome and miserable steps back again homeward, concluding that I was
+only born for hardships, misery, and disappointment. I now began to
+think, that in making me, it was entirely forgotten to make my mate;
+that I was born odd, and should always remain so, and that nobody would
+have me.
+
+But all these reflections did not satisfy my mind, for I had no peace
+day nor night for several weeks. My appetite failed me, and I grew
+daily worse and worse. They all thought I was sick; and so I was. And it
+was the worst kind of sickness,--a sickness of the heart, and all the
+tender parts, produced by disappointed love.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IV.
+
+
+I continued in this down-spirited situation for a good long time, until
+one day I took my rifle and started a hunting. While out, I made a call
+at the house of a Dutch widow, who had a daughter that was well enough
+as to smartness, but she was as ugly as a stone fence. She was, however,
+quite talkative, and soon begun to laugh at me about my disappointment.
+
+She seemed disposed, though, to comfort me as much as she could; and,
+for that purpose, told me to keep in good heart, that "there was as good
+fish in the sea as had ever been caught out of it." I doubted this very
+much; but whether or not, I was certain that she was not one of them,
+for she was so homely that it almost give me a pain in the eyes to look
+at her.
+
+But I couldn't help thinking, that she had intended what she had said as
+a banter for me to court her!!!--the last thing in creation I could
+have thought of doing. I felt little inclined to talk on the subject, it
+is true; but, to pass off the time, I told her I thought I was born odd,
+and that no fellow to me could be found. She protested against this, and
+said if I would come to their reaping, which was not far off, she would
+show me one of the prettiest little girls there I had ever seen. She
+added that the one who had deceived me was nothing to be compared with
+her. I didn't believe a word of all this, for I had thought that such a
+piece of flesh and blood as she was had never been manufactured, and
+never would again. I agreed with her, though, that the little varment
+had treated me so bad, that I ought to forget her, and yet I couldn't do
+it. I concluded the best way to accomplish it was to cut out again, and
+see if I could find any other that would answer me; and so I told the
+Dutch girl I would be at the reaping, and would bring as many as I could
+with me.
+
+I employed my time pretty generally in giving information of it, as far
+as I could, until the day came; and I then offered to work for my old
+friend, the Quaker, two days, if he would let his bound boy go with me
+one to the reaping. He refused, and reproved me pretty considerable
+roughly for my proposition; and said, if he was in my place he wouldn't
+go; that there would be a great deal of bad company there; and that I
+had been so good a boy, he would be sorry for me to get a bad name. But
+I knowed my promise to the Dutch girl, and I was resolved to fulfil it;
+so I shouldered my rifle, and started by myself. When I got to the
+place, I found a large company of men and women, and among them an old
+Irish woman, who had a great deal to say. I soon found out from my Dutch
+girl, that this old lady was the mother of the little girl she had
+promised me, though I had not yet seen her. She was in an out-house with
+some other youngsters, and had not yet made her appearance. Her mamma,
+however, was no way bashful. She came up to me, and began to praise my
+red cheeks, and said she had a sweetheart for me. I had no doubt she had
+been told what I come for, and all about it. In the evening I was
+introduced to her daughter, and I must confess, I was plaguy well
+pleased with her from the word go. She had a good countenance, and was
+very pretty, and I was full bent on making up an acquaintance with her.
+
+It was not long before the dancing commenced, and I asked her to join me
+in a reel. She very readily consented to do so; and after we had
+finished our dance, I took a seat alongside of her, and entered into a
+talk. I found her very interesting; while I was setting by her, making
+as good a use of my time as I could, her mother came to us, and very
+jocularly called me her son-in-law. This rather confused me, but I
+looked on it as a joke of the old lady, and tried to turn it off as well
+as I could; but I took care to pay as much attention to her through the
+evening as I could. I went on the old saying, of salting the cow to
+catch the calf. I soon become so much pleased with this little girl,
+that I began to think the Dutch girl had told me the truth, when she
+said there was still good fish in the sea.
+
+We continued our frolic till near day, when we joined in some plays,
+calculated to amuse youngsters. I had not often spent a more agreeable
+night. In the morning, however, we all had to part; and I found my mind
+had become much better reconciled than it had been for a long time. I
+went home to the Quaker's, and made a bargain to work with his son for a
+low-priced horse. He was the first one I had ever owned, and I was to
+work six months for him. I had been engaged very closely five or six
+weeks, when this little girl run in my mind so, that I concluded I must
+go and see her, and find out what sort of people they were at home. I
+mounted my horse and away I went to where she lived, and when I got
+there I found her father a very clever old man, and the old woman as
+talkative as ever. She wanted badly to find out all about me, and as I
+thought to see how I would do for her girl. I had not yet seen her
+about, and I began to feel some anxiety to know where she was.
+
+In a short time, however, my impatience was relieved, as she arrived at
+home from a meeting to which she had been. There was a young man with
+her, who I soon found was disposed to set up claim to her, as he was so
+attentive to her that I could hardly get to slip in a word edgeways. I
+began to think I was barking up the wrong tree again; but I was
+determined to stand up to my rack, fodder or no fodder. And so, to know
+her mind a little on the subject, I began to talk about starting, as I
+knowed she would then show some sign, from which I could understand
+which way the wind blowed. It was then near night, and my distance was
+fifteen miles home. At this my little girl soon began to indicate to the
+other gentleman that his room would be the better part of his company.
+At length she left him, and came to me, and insisted mighty hard that I
+should not go that evening; and, indeed, from all her actions and the
+attempts she made to get rid of him, I saw that she preferred me all
+holler. But it wasn't long before I found trouble enough in another
+quarter. Her mother was deeply enlisted for my rival, and I had to fight
+against her influence as well as his. But the girl herself was the prize
+I was fighting for; and as she welcomed me, I was determined to lay
+siege to her, let what would happen. I commenced a close courtship,
+having cornered her from her old beau; while he set off, looking on,
+like a poor man at a country frolic, and all the time almost gritting
+his teeth with pure disappointment. But he didn't dare to attempt any
+thing more, for now I had gotten a start, and I looked at him every once
+in a while as fierce as a wild-cat. I staid with her until Monday
+morning, and then I put out for home.
+
+It was about two weeks after this that I was sent for to engage in a
+wolf hunt, where a great number of men were to meet, with their dogs and
+guns, and where the best sort of sport was expected. I went as large as
+life, but I had to hunt in strange woods, and in a part of the country
+which was very thinly inhabited. While I was out it clouded up, and I
+began to get scared; and in a little while I was so much so, that I
+didn't know which way home was, nor any thing about it. I set out the
+way I thought it was, but it turned out with me, as it always does with
+a lost man, I was wrong, and took exactly the contrary direction from
+the right one. And for the information of young hunters, I will just
+say, in this place, that whenever a fellow gets bad lost, the way home
+is just the way he don't think it is. This rule will hit nine times out
+of ten. I went ahead, though, about six or seven miles, when I found
+night was coming on fast; but at this distressing time I saw a little
+woman streaking it along through the woods like all wrath, and so I cut
+on too, for I was determined I wouldn't lose sight of her that night any
+more. I run on till she saw me, and she stopped; for she was as glad to
+see me as I was to see her, as she was lost as well as me. When I came
+up to her, who should she be but my little girl, that I had been paying
+my respects to. She had been out hunting her father's horses, and had
+missed her way, and had no knowledge where she was, or how far it was to
+any house, or what way would take us there. She had been travelling all
+day, and was mighty tired; and I would have taken her up, and toated
+her, if it hadn't been that I wanted her just where I could see her all
+the time, for I thought she looked sweeter than sugar; and by this time
+I loved her almost well enough to eat her.
+
+At last I came to a path, that I know'd must go somewhere, and so we
+followed it, till we came to a house, at about dark. Here we staid all
+night. I set up all night courting; and in the morning we parted. She
+went to her home, from which we were distant about seven miles, and I to
+mine, which was ten miles off.
+
+I now turned in to work again; and it was about four weeks before I went
+back to see her. I continued to go occasionally, until I had worked long
+enough to pay for my horse, by putting in my gun with my work, to the
+man I had purchased from; and then I began to count whether I was to be
+deceived again or not. At our next meeting we set the day for our
+wedding; and I went to my father's, and made arrangements for an infair,
+and returned to ask her parents for her. When I got there, the old lady
+appeared to be mighty wrathy; and when I broached the subject, she
+looked at me as savage as a meat axe. The old man appeared quite
+willing, and treated me very clever. But I hadn't been there long,
+before the old woman as good as ordered me out of her house. I thought I
+would put her in mind of old times, and see how that would go with her.
+I told her she had called me her son-in-law before I had attempted to
+call her my mother-in-law and I thought she ought to cool off. But her
+Irish was up too high to do any thing with her, and so I quit trying.
+All I cared for was, to have her daughter on my side, which I knowed was
+the case then; but how soon some other fellow might knock my nose out of
+joint again, I couldn't tell. I however felt rather insulted at the old
+lady, and I thought I wouldn't get married in her house. And so I told
+her girl, that I would come the next Thursday, and bring a horse,
+bridle, and saddle for her, and she must be ready to go. Her mother
+declared I shouldn't have her; but I know'd I should, if somebody else
+didn't get her before Thursday. I then started, bidding them good day,
+and went by the house of a justice of the peace, who lived on the way to
+my father's, and made a bargain with him to marry me.
+
+When Thursday came, all necessary arrangements were made at my father's
+to receive my wife; and so I took my eldest brother and his wife, and
+another brother, and a single sister that I had, and two other young men
+with me, and cut out to her father's house to get her. We went on, until
+we got within two miles of the place, where we met a large company that
+had heard of the wedding, and were waiting. Some of that company went on
+with my brother and sister, and the young man I had picked out to wait
+on me. When they got there, they found the old lady as wrathy as ever.
+However the old man filled their bottle, and the young men returned in a
+hurry. I then went on with my company, and when I arrived I never
+pretended to dismount from my horse, but rode up to the door, and asked
+the girl if she was ready; and she said she was. I then told her to
+light on the horse I was leading; and she did so. Her father, though,
+had gone out to the gate, and when I started he commenced persuading me
+to stay and marry there; that he was entirely willing to the match, and
+that his wife, like most women, had entirely too much tongue; but that I
+oughtn't to mind her. I told him if she would ask me to stay and marry
+at her house, I would do so. With that he sent for her, and after they
+had talked for some time out by themselves, she came to me and looked at
+me mighty good, and asked my pardon for what she had said, and invited
+me stay. She said it was the first child she had ever had to marry; and
+she couldn't bear to see her go off in that way; that if I would light,
+she would do the best she could for us. I couldn't stand every thing,
+and so I agreed, and we got down, and went in. I sent off then for my
+parson, and got married in a short time; for I was afraid to wait long,
+for fear of another defeat. We had as good treatment as could be
+expected; and that night all went on well. The next day we cut out for
+my father's, where we met a large company of people, that had been
+waiting a day and a night for our arrival. We passed the time quite
+merrily, until the company broke up; and having gotten my wife, I
+thought I was completely made up, and needed nothing more in the whole
+world. But I soon found this was all a mistake--for now having a wife, I
+wanted every thing else; and, worse than all, I had nothing to give for
+it.
+
+I remained a few days at my father's, and then went back to my new
+father-in-law's; where, to my surprise, I found my old Irish mother in
+the finest humour in the world.
+
+She gave us two likely cows and calves, which, though it was a small
+marriage-portion, was still better than I had expected, and, indeed, it
+was about all I ever got. I rented a small farm and cabin, and went to
+work; but I had much trouble to find out a plan to get any thing to put
+in my house. At this time, my good old friend the Quaker came forward to
+my assistance, and gave me an order to a store for fifteen dollars'
+worth of such things as my little wife might choose. With this, we
+fixed up pretty grand, as we thought, and allowed to get on very well.
+My wife had a good wheel, and knowed exactly how to use it. She was also
+a good weaver, as most of the Irish are, whether men or women; and being
+very industrious with her wheel, she had, in little or no time, a fine
+web of cloth, ready to make up; and she was good at that too, and at
+almost any thing else that a woman could do.
+
+We worked on for some years, renting ground, and paying high rent, until
+I found it wan't the thing it was cracked up to be; and that I couldn't
+make a fortune at it just at all. So I concluded to quit it, and cut out
+for some new country. In this time we had two sons, and I found I was
+better at increasing my family than my fortune. It was therefore the
+more necessary that I should hunt some better place to get along; and as
+I knowed I would have to move at some time, I thought it was better to
+do it before my family got too large, that I might have less to carry.
+
+The Duck and Elk river country was just beginning to settle, and I
+determined to try that. I had now one old horse, and a couple of two
+year old colts. They were both broke to the halter, and my father-in-law
+proposed, that, if I went, he would go with me, and take one horse to
+help me move. So we all fixed up, and I packed my two colts with as many
+of my things as they could bear; and away we went across the mountains.
+We got on well enough, and arrived safely in Lincoln county, on the head
+of the Mulberry fork of Elk river. I found this a very rich country, and
+so new, that game, of different sorts, was very plenty. It was here that
+I began to distinguish myself as a hunter, and to lay the foundation for
+all my future greatness; but mighty little did I know of what sort it
+was going to be. Of deer and smaller game I killed abundance; but the
+bear had been much hunted in those parts before, and were not so plenty
+as I could have wished. I lived here in the years 1809 and '10, to the
+best of my recollection, and then I moved to Franklin county, and
+settled on Beans creek, where I remained till after the close of the
+last war.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER V.
+
+
+I was living ten miles below Winchester when the Creek war commenced;
+and as military men are making so much fuss in the world at this time, I
+must give an account of the part I took in the defence of the country.
+If it should make me president, why I can't help it; such things will
+sometimes happen; and my pluck is, never "to seek, nor decline office."
+
+It is true, I had a little rather not; but yet, if the government can't
+get on without taking another president from Tennessee, to finish the
+work of "retrenchment and reform," why, then, I reckon I must go in for
+it. But I must begin about the war, and leave the other matter for the
+people to begin on.
+
+The Creek Indians had commenced their open hostilities by a most bloody
+butchery at Fort Mimms. There had been no war among us for so long, that
+but few, who were not too old to bear arms, knew any thing about the
+business. I, for one, had often thought about war, and had often heard
+it described; and I did verily believe in my own mind, that I couldn't
+fight in that way at all; but my after experience convinced me that this
+was all a notion. For when I heard of the mischief which was done at the
+fort, I instantly felt like going, and I had none of the dread of dying
+that I expected to feel. In a few days a general meeting of the militia
+was called for the purpose of raising volunteers; and when the day
+arrived for that meeting, my wife, who had heard me say I meant to go to
+the war, began to beg me not to turn out. She said she was a stranger in
+the parts where we lived, had no connexions living near her, and that
+she and our little children would be left in a lonesome and unhappy
+situation if I went away. It was mighty hard to go against such
+arguments as these; but my countrymen had been murdered, and I knew that
+the next thing would be, that the Indians would be scalping the women
+and children all about there, if we didn't put a stop to it. I reasoned
+the case with her as well as I could, and told her, that if every man
+would wait till his wife got willing for him to go to war, there would
+be no fighting done, until we would all be killed in our own houses;
+that I was as able to go as any man in the world; and that I believed
+it was a duty I owed to my country. Whether she was satisfied with this
+reasoning or not, she did not tell me; but seeing I was bent on it, all
+she did was to cry a little, and turn about to her work. The truth is,
+my dander was up, and nothing but war could bring it right again.
+
+I went to Winchester, where the muster was to be, and a great many
+people had collected, for there was as much fuss among the people about
+the war as there is now about moving the deposites. When the men were
+paraded, a lawyer by the name of Jones addressed us, and closed by
+turning out himself, and enquiring, at the same time, who among us felt
+like we could fight Indians? This was the same Mr. Jones who afterwards
+served in Congress, from the state of Tennessee. He informed us he
+wished to raise a company, and that then the men should meet and elect
+their own officers. I believe I was about the second or third man that
+step'd out; but on marching up and down the regiment a few times, we
+found we had a large company. We volunteered for sixty days, as it was
+supposed our services would not be longer wanted. A day or two after
+this we met and elected Mr. Jones our captain, and also elected our
+other officers. We then received orders to start on the next Monday
+week; before which time, I had fixed as well as I could to go, and my
+wife had equip'd me as well as she was able for the camp. The time
+arrived; I took a parting farewell of my wife and my little boys,
+mounted my horse, and set sail, to join my company. Expecting to be gone
+only a short time, I took no more clothing with me than I supposed would
+be necessary, so that if I got into an Indian battle, I might not be
+pestered with any unnecessary plunder, to prevent my having a fair shake
+with them. We all met and went ahead, till we passed Huntsville, and
+camped at a large spring called Beaty's spring. Here we staid for
+several days, in which time the troops began to collect from all
+quarters. At last we mustered about thirteen hundred strong, all mounted
+volunteers, and all determined to fight, judging from myself, for I felt
+wolfish all over. I verily believe the whole army was of the real grit.
+Our captain didn't want any other sort; and to try them he several times
+told his men, that if any of them wanted to go back home, they might do
+so at any time, before they were regularly mustered into the service.
+But he had the honour to command all his men from first to last, as not
+one of them left him.
+
+Gen'l. Jackson had not yet left Nashville with his old foot volunteers,
+that had gone with him to Natchez in 1812, the year before. While we
+remained at the spring, a Major Gibson came, and wanted some volunteers
+to go with him across the Tennessee river and into the Creek nation, to
+find out the movements of the Indians. He came to my captain, and asked
+for two of his best woods-men, and such as were best with a rifle. The
+captain pointed me out to him, and said he would be security that I
+would go as far as the major would himself, or any other man. I
+willingly engaged to go with him, and asked him to let me choose my own
+mate to go with me, which he said I might do. I chose a young man by the
+name of George Russell, a son of old Major Russell, of Tennessee. I
+called him up, but Major Gibson said he thought he hadn't beard enough
+to please him,--he wanted men, and not boys. I must confess I was a
+little nettled at this; for I know'd George Russell, and I know'd there
+was no mistake in him; and I didn't think that courage ought to be
+measured by the beard, for fear a goat would have the preference over a
+man. I told the major he was on the wrong scent; that Russell could go
+as far as he could, and I must have him along. He saw I was a little
+wrathy, and said I had the best chance of knowing, and agreed that it
+should be as I wanted it. He told us to be ready early in the morning
+for a start; and so we were. We took our camp equipage, mounted our
+horses, and, thirteen in number, including the major, we cut out. We
+went on, and crossed the Tennessee river at a place called Ditto's
+Landing; and then traveled about seven miles further, and took up camp
+for the night. Here a man by the name of John Haynes overtook us. He had
+been an Indian trader in that part of the nation, and was well
+acquainted with it. He went with us as a pilot. The next morning,
+however, Major Gibson and myself concluded we should separate and take
+different directions to see what discoveries we could make; so he took
+seven of the men, and I five, making thirteen in all, including myself.
+He was to go by the house of a Cherokee Indian, named Dick Brown, and I
+was to go by Dick's father's; and getting all the information we could,
+we were to meet that evening where the roads came together, fifteen
+miles the other side of Brown's. At old Mr. Brown's I got a half blood
+Cherokee to agree to go with me, whose name was Jack Thompson. He was
+not then ready to start, but was to fix that evening, and overtake us at
+the fork road where I was to meet Major Gibson. I know'd it wouldn't be
+safe to camp right at the road; and so I told Jack, that when he got to
+the fork he must holler like an owl, and I would answer him in the same
+way; for I know'd it would be night before he got there. I and my men
+then started, and went on to the place of meeting, but Major Gibson was
+not there. We waited till almost dark, but still he didn't come. We then
+left the Indian trace a little distance, and turning into the head of a
+hollow, we struck up camp. It was about ten o'clock at night, when I
+heard my owl, and I answered him. Jack soon found us, and we determined
+to rest there during the night. We staid also next morning till after
+breakfast: but in vain, for the major didn't still come.
+
+I told the men we had set out to hunt a fight, and I wouldn't go back in
+that way; that we must go ahead, and see what the red men were at. We
+started, and went to a Cherokee town about twenty miles off; and after a
+short stay there, we pushed on to the house of a man by the name of
+Radcliff. He was a white man, but had married a Creek woman, and lived
+just in the edge of the Creek nation. He had two sons, large likely
+fellows, and a great deal of potatoes and corn, and, indeed, almost
+every thing else to go on; so we fed our horses and got dinner with
+him, and seemed to be doing mighty well. But he was bad scared all the
+time. He told us there had been ten painted warriors at his house only
+an hour before, and if we were discovered there, they would kill us, and
+his family with us. I replied to him, that my business was to hunt for
+just such fellows as he had described, and I was determined not to go
+back until I had done it. Our dinner being over, we saddled up our
+horses, and made ready to start. But some of my small company I found
+were disposed to return. I told them, if we were to go back then, we
+should never hear the last of it; and I was determined to go ahead. I
+knowed some of them would go with me, and that the rest were afraid to
+go back by themselves; and so we pushed on to the camp of some of the
+friendly Creeks, which was distant about eight miles. The moon was about
+the full, and the night was clear; we therefore had the benefit of her
+light from night to morning, and I knew if we were placed in such danger
+as to make a retreat necessary, we could travel by night as well as in
+the day time.
+
+We had not gone very far, when we met two negroes, well mounted on
+Indian ponies, and each with a good rifle. They had been taken from
+their owners by the Indians, and were running away from them, and trying
+to get back to their masters again. They were brothers, both very large
+and likely, and could talk Indian as well as English. One of them I sent
+on to Ditto's Landing, the other I took back with me. It was after dark
+when we got to the camp, where we found about forty men, women, and
+children.
+
+They had bows and arrows, and I turned in to shooting with their boys by
+a pine light. In this way we amused ourselves very well for a while; but
+at last the negro, who had been talking to the Indians, came to me and
+told me they were very much alarmed, for the "red sticks," as they
+called the war party of the Creeks, would come and find us there; and,
+if so, we should all be killed. I directed him to tell them that I would
+watch, and if one would come that night, I would carry the skin of his
+head home to make me a mockasin. When he made this communication, the
+Indians laughed aloud. At about ten o'clock at night we all concluded to
+try to sleep a little; but that our horses might be ready for use, as
+the treasurer said of the drafts on the United States' bank, on certain
+"contingences," we tied them up with our saddles on them, and every
+thing to our hand, if in the night our quarters should get
+uncomfortable. We lay down with our guns in our arms, and I had just
+gotten into a dose of sleep, when I heard the sharpest scream that ever
+escaped the throat of a human creature. It was more like a wrathy
+painter than any thing else. The negro understood it, and he sprang to
+me; for tho' I heard the noise well enough, yet I wasn't wide awake
+enough to get up. So the negro caught me, and said the red sticks was
+coming. I rose quicker then, and asked what was the matter? Our negro
+had gone and talked with the Indian who had just fetched the scream, as
+he come into camp, and learned from him, that the war party had been
+crossing the Coosa river all day at the Ten islands; and were going on
+to meet Jackson, and this Indian had come as a runner. This news very
+much alarmed the friendly Indians in camp, and they were all off in a
+few minutes. I felt bound to make this intelligence known as soon as
+possible to the army we had left at the landing; and so we all mounted
+our horses, and put out in a long lope to make our way back to that
+place. We were about sixty-five miles off. We went on to the same
+Cherokee town we had visited on our way out, having first called at
+Radcliff's, who was off with his family; and at the town we found
+large fires burning, but not a single Indian was to be seen. They were
+all gone. These circumstances were calculated to lay our dander a
+little, as it appeared we must be in great danger; though we could
+easily have licked any force of not more than five to one. But we
+expected the whole nation would be on us, and against such fearful odds
+we were not so rampant for a fight.
+
+We therefore staid only a short time in the light of the fires about the
+town, preferring the light of the moon and the shade of the woods. We
+pushed on till we got again to old Mr. Brown's, which was still about
+thirty miles from where we had left the main army. When we got there,
+the chickens were just at the first crowing for day. We fed our horses,
+got a morsel to eat ourselves, and again cut out. About ten o'clock in
+the morning we reached the camp, and I reported to Col. Coffee the news.
+He didn't seem to mind my report a bit, and this raised my dander higher
+than ever; but I knowed I had to be on my best behaviour, and so I kept
+it all to myself; though I was so mad that I was burning inside like a
+tar-kiln, and I wonder that the smoke hadn't been pouring out of me at
+all points.
+
+Major Gibson hadn't yet returned, and we all began to think he was
+killed; and that night they put out a double guard. The next day the
+major got in, and brought a worse tale than I had, though he stated the
+same facts, so far as I went. This seemed to put our colonel all in a
+fidget; and it convinced me, clearly, of one of the hateful ways of the
+world. When I made my report, it wasn't believed, because I was no
+officer; I was no great man, but just a poor soldier. But when the same
+thing was reported by Major Gibson!! why, then, it was all as true as
+preaching, and the colonel believed it every word.
+
+He, therefore, ordered breastworks to be thrown up, near a quarter of a
+mile long, and sent an express to Fayetteville, where General Jackson
+and his troops was, requesting them to push on like the very mischief,
+for fear we should all be cooked up to a cracklin before they could get
+there. Old Hickory-face made a forced march on getting the news; and on
+the next day, he and his men got into camp, with their feet all
+blistered from the effects of their swift journey. The volunteers,
+therefore, stood guard altogether, to let them rest.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VI.
+
+
+About eight hundred of the volunteers, and of that number I was one,
+were now sent back, crossing the Tennessee river, and on through
+Huntsville, so as to cross the river again at another place, and to get
+on the Indians in another direction. After we passed Huntsville, we
+struck on the river at the Muscle Shoals, and at a place on them called
+Melton's Bluff. This river is here about two miles wide, and a rough
+bottom; so much so, indeed, in many places, as to be dangerous; and in
+fording it this time, we left several of the horses belonging to our
+men, with their feet fast in the crevices of the rocks. The men, whose
+horses were thus left, went ahead on foot. We pushed on till we got to
+what was called the Black Warrior's town, which stood near the very spot
+where Tuscaloosa now stands, which is the seat of government for the
+state of Alabama.
+
+This Indian town was a large one; but when we arrived we found the
+Indians had all left it. There was a large field of corn standing out,
+and a pretty good supply in some cribs. There was also a fine quantity
+of dried beans, which were very acceptable to us; and without delay we
+secured them as well as the corn, and then burned the town to ashes;
+after which we left the place.
+
+In the field where we gathered the corn we saw plenty of fresh Indian
+tracks, and we had no doubt they had been scared off by our arrival.
+
+We then went on to meet the main army at the fork road, where I was
+first to have met Major Gibson. We got that evening as far back as the
+encampment we had made the night before we reached the Black Warrior's
+town, which we had just destroyed. The next day we were entirely out of
+meat. I went to Col. Coffee, who was then in command of us, and asked
+his leave to hunt as we marched. He gave me leave, but told me to take
+mighty good care of myself. I turned aside to hunt, and had not gone far
+when I found a deer that had just been killed and skinned, and his flesh
+was still warm and smoking. From this I was sure that the Indian who had
+killed it had been gone only a very few minutes; and though I was never
+much in favour of one hunter stealing from another, yet meat was so
+scarce in camp, that I thought I must go in for it. So I just took up
+the deer on my horse before me, and carried it on till night. I could
+have sold it for almost any price I would have asked; but this wasn't my
+rule, neither in peace nor war. Whenever I had any thing, and saw a
+fellow being suffering, I was more anxious to relieve him than to
+benefit myself. And this is one of the true secrets of my being a poor
+man to this day. But it is my way; and while it has often left me with
+an empty purse, which is as near the devil as any thing else I have
+seen, yet it has never left my heart empty of consolations which money
+couldn't buy,--the consolations of having sometimes fed the hungry and
+covered the naked.
+
+I gave all my deer away, except a small part I kept for myself, and just
+sufficient to make a good supper for my mess; for meat was getting to be
+a rarity to us all. We had to live mostly on parched corn. The next day
+we marched on, and at night took up camp near a large cane brake. While
+here, I told my mess I would again try for some meat; so I took my rifle
+and cut out, but hadn't gone far, when I discovered a large gang of
+hogs. I shot one of them down in his tracks, and the rest broke directly
+towards the camp. In a few minutes, the guns began to roar, as bad as if
+the whole army had been in an Indian battle; and the hogs to squeal as
+bad as the pig did, when the devil turned barber. I shouldered my hog,
+and went on to the camp; and when I got there I found they had killed a
+good many of the hogs, and a fine fat cow into the bargain, that had
+broke out of the cane brake. We did very well that night, and the next
+morning marched on to a Cherokee town, where our officers stop'd, and
+gave the inhabitants an order on Uncle Sam for their cow, and the hogs
+we had killed. The next day we met the main army, having had, as we
+thought, hard times, and a plenty of them, though we had yet seen hardly
+the beginning of trouble.
+
+After our meeting we went on to Radcliff's, where I had been before
+while out as a spy; and when we got there, we found he had hid all his
+provisions. We also got into the secret, that he was the very rascal who
+had sent the runner to the Indian camp, with the news that the "red
+sticks" were crossing at the Ten Islands; and that his object was to
+scare me and my men away, and send us back with a false alarm.
+
+To make some atonement for this, we took the old scroundrell's two big
+sons with us, and made them serve in the war.
+
+We then marched to a place, which we called Camp Wills; and here it was
+that Captain Cannon was promoted to a colonel, and Colonel Coffee to a
+general. We then marched to the Ten Islands, on the Coosa river, where
+we established a fort; and our spy companies were sent out. They soon
+made prisoners of Bob Catala and his warriors, and, in a few days
+afterwards, we heard of some Indians in a town about eight miles off. So
+we mounted our horses, and put out for that town, under the direction of
+two friendly Creeks we had taken for pilots. We had also a Cherokee
+colonel, Dick Brown, and some of his men with us. When we got near the
+town we divided; one of our pilots going with each division. And so we
+passed on each side of the town, keeping near to it, until our lines met
+on the far side. We then closed up at both ends, so as to surround it
+completely; and then we sent Captain Hammond's company of rangers to
+bring on the affray. He had advanced near the town, when the Indians saw
+him, and they raised the yell, and came running at him like so many red
+devils. The main army was now formed in a hollow square around the town,
+and they pursued Hammond till they came in reach of us. We then gave
+them a fire, and they returned it, and then ran back into their town. We
+began to close on the town by making our files closer and closer, and
+the Indians soon saw they were our property. So most of them wanted us
+to take them prisoners; and their squaws and all would run and take hold
+of any of us they could, and give themselves up. I saw seven squaws have
+hold of one man, which made me think of the Scriptures. So I hollered
+out the Scriptures was fulfilling; that there was seven women holding to
+one man's coat tail. But I believe it was a hunting-shirt all the time.
+We took them all prisoners that came out to us in this way; but I saw
+some warriors run into a house, until I counted forty-six of them. We
+pursued them until we got near the house, when we saw a squaw sitting in
+the door, and she placed her feet against the bow she had in her hand,
+and then took an arrow, and, raising her feet, she drew with all her
+might, and let fly at us, and she killed a man, whose name, I believe,
+was Moore. He was a lieutenant, and his death so enraged us all, that
+she was fired on, and had at least twenty balls blown through her. This
+was the first man I ever saw killed with a bow and arrow. We now shot
+them like dogs; and then set the house on fire, and burned it up with
+the forty-six warriors in it. I recollect seeing a boy who was shot down
+near the house. His arm and thigh was broken, and he was so near the
+burning house that the grease was stewing out of him. In this situation
+he was still trying to crawl along; but not a murmur escaped him, though
+he was only about twelve years old. So sullen is the Indian, when his
+dander is up, that he had sooner die than make a noise, or ask for
+quarters.
+
+The number that we took prisoners, being added to the number we killed,
+amounted to one hundred and eighty-six; though I don't remember the
+exact number of either. We had five of our men killed. We then returned
+to our camp, at which our fort was erected, and known by the name of
+Fort Strother. No provisions had yet reached us, and we had now been for
+several days on half rations. However we went back to our Indian town on
+the next day, when many of the carcasses of the Indians were still to be
+seen. They looked very awful, for the burning had not entirely consumed
+them, but given them a very terrible appearance, at least what remained
+of them. It was, somehow or other, found out that the house had a
+potatoe cellar under it, and an immediate examination was made, for we
+were all as hungry as wolves. We found a fine chance of potatoes in it,
+and hunger compelled us to eat them, though I had a little rather not,
+if I could have helped it, for the oil of the Indians we had burned up
+on the day before had run down on them, and they looked like they had
+been stewed with fat meat. We then again returned to the army, and
+remained there for several days almost starving, as all our beef was
+gone. We commenced eating the beef-hides, and continued to eat every
+scrap we could lay our hands on. At length an Indian came to our guard
+one night, and hollered, and said he wanted to see "Captain Jackson." He
+was conducted to the general's markee, into which he entered, and in a
+few minutes we received orders to prepare for marching.
+
+In an hour we were all ready, and took up the line of march. We crossed
+the Coosa river, and went on in the direction to Fort Taladega. When we
+arrived near the place, we met eleven hundred painted warriors, the very
+choice of the Creek nation. They had encamped near the fort, and had
+informed the friendly Indians who were in it, that if they didn't come
+out, and fight with them against the whites, they would take their fort
+and all their ammunition and provision. The friendly party asked three
+days to consider of it, and agreed that if on the third day they didn't
+come out ready to fight with them, they might take their fort. Thus
+they put them off. They then immediately started their runner to General
+Jackson, and he and the army pushed over, as I have just before stated.
+
+The camp of warriors had their spies out, and discovered us coming, some
+time before we got to the fort. They then went to the friendly Indians,
+and told them Captain Jackson was coming, and had a great many fine
+horses, and blankets, and guns, and every thing else; and if they would
+come out and help to whip him, and to take his plunder, it should all be
+divided with those in the fort. They promised that when Jackson came,
+they would then come out and help to whip him. It was about an hour by
+sun in the morning, when we got near the fort. We were piloted by
+friendly Indians, and divided as we had done on a former occasion, so as
+to go to the right and left of the fort, and, consequently, of the
+warriors who were camped near it. Our lines marched on, as before, till
+they met in front, and then closed in the rear, forming again into a
+hollow square. We then sent on old Major Russell, with his spy company,
+to bring on the battle; Capt. Evans' company went also. When they got
+near the fort, the top of it was lined with the friendly Indians,
+crying out as loud as they could roar, "How-dy-do, brother, how-dy-do?"
+They kept this up till Major Russel had passed by the fort, and was
+moving on towards the warriors. They were all painted as red as scarlet,
+and were just as naked as they were born. They had concealed themselves
+under the bank of a branch, that ran partly around the fort, in the
+manner of a half moon. Russel was going right into their circle, for he
+couldn't see them, while the Indians on the top of the fort were trying
+every plan to show him his danger. But he couldn't understand them. At
+last, two of them jumped from it, and ran, and took his horse by the
+bridle, and pointing to where they were, told him there were thousands
+of them lying under the bank. This brought them to a halt, and about
+this moment the Indians fired on them, and came rushing forth like a
+cloud of Egyptian locusts, and screaming like all the young devils had
+been turned loose, with the old devil of all at their head. Russel's
+company quit their horses, and took into the fort, and their horses ran
+up to our line, which was then in full view. The warriors then came
+yelling on, meeting us, and continued till they were within shot of us,
+when we fired and killed a considerable number of them. They then broke
+like a gang of steers, and ran across to our other line, where they
+were again fired on; and so we kept them running from one line to the
+other, constantly under a heavy fire, until we had killed upwards of
+four hundred of them. They fought with guns, and also with their bows
+and arrows; but at length they made their escape through a part of our
+line, which was made up of drafted militia, which broke ranks, and they
+passed. We lost fifteen of our men, as brave fellows as ever lived or
+died. We buried them all in one grave, and started back to our fort; but
+before we got there, two more of our men died of wounds they had
+received; making our total loss seventeen good fellows in that battle.
+
+We now remained at the fort a few days, but no provision came yet, and
+we were all likely to perish. The weather also began to get very cold;
+and our clothes were nearly worn out, and horses getting very feeble and
+poor. Our officers proposed to Gen'l. Jackson to let us return home and
+get fresh horses, and fresh clothing, so as to be better prepared for
+another campaign; for our sixty days had long been out, and that was the
+time we entered for.
+
+But the general took "the responsibility" on himself, and refused. We
+were, however, determined to go, as I am to put back the deposites, _if
+I can_. With this, the general issued his orders against it, as he has
+against the bank. But we began to fix for a start, as provisions were
+too scarce; just as Clay, and Webster, and myself are preparing to fix
+bank matters, on account of the scarcity of money. The general went and
+placed his cannon on a bridge we had to cross, and ordered out his
+regulars and drafted men to keep us from crossing; just as he has
+planted his Globe and K. C. to alarm the bank men, while his regulars
+and militia in Congress are to act as artillery men. But when the
+militia started to guard the bridge, they would holler back to us to
+bring their knapsacks along when we come, for they wanted to go as bad
+as we did; just as many a good fellow now wants his political knapsack
+brought along, that if, when we come to vote, he sees he has a _fair
+shake to go_, he may join in and help us to take back the deposites.
+
+We got ready and moved on till we came near the bridge, where the
+general's men were all strung along on both sides, just like the
+office-holders are now, to keep us from getting along to the help of the
+country and the people. But we all had our flints ready picked, and our
+guns ready primed, that if we were fired on we might fight our way
+through, or all die together; just as we are now determined to save the
+country from ready ruin, or to sink down with it. When we came still
+nearer the bridge we heard the guards cocking their guns, and we did the
+same; just as we have had it in Congress, while the "government"
+regulars and the people's volunteers have all been setting their
+political triggers. But, after all, we marched boldly on, and not a gun
+was fired, nor a life lost; just as I hope it will be again, that we
+shall not be afraid of the general's Globe, nor his K. C., nor his
+regulars, nor their trigger snapping; but just march boldly over the
+executive bridge, and take the deposites back where the law placed them,
+and where they ought to be. When we had passed, no further attempt was
+made to stop us; but the general said, we were "the damned'st volunteers
+he had ever seen in his life; that we would volunteer and go out and
+fight, and then at our pleasure would _volunteer_ and go home again, in
+spite of the devil." But we went on; and near Huntsville we met a
+reinforcement who were going on to join the army. It consisted of a
+regiment of volunteers, and was under the command of some one whose name
+I can't remember. They were sixty-day volunteers.
+
+We got home pretty safely, and in a short time we had procured fresh
+horses and a supply of clothing better suited for the season; and then
+we returned to Fort Deposite, where our officers held a sort of a
+"_national convention_" on the subject of a message they had received
+from General Jackson,--demanding that on our return we should serve out
+_six months_. We had already served three months instead of two, which
+was the time we had volunteered for. On the next morning the officers
+reported to us the conclusions they had come to; and told us, if any of
+us felt bound to go on and serve out the six months, we could do so; but
+that they intended to go back home. I knowed if I went back home I
+couldn't rest, for I felt it my duty to be out; and when out was,
+somehow or other, always delighted to be in the very thickest of the
+danger. A few of us, therefore, determined to push on and join the army.
+The number I do not recollect, but it was very small.
+
+When we got out there, I joined Major Russel's company of spies. Before
+we reached the place, General Jackson had started. We went on likewise,
+and overtook him at a place where we established a fort, called Fort
+Williams, and leaving men to guard it, we went ahead; intending to go to
+a place called the Horse-shoe bend of the Talapoosa river. When we came
+near that place, we began to find Indian sign plenty, and we struck up
+camp for the night. About two hours before day, we heard our guard
+firing, and we were all up in little or no time. We mended up our camp
+fires, and then fell back in the dark, expecting to see the Indians
+pouring in; and intending, when they should do so, to shoot them by the
+light of our own fires. But it happened that they did not rush in as we
+had expected, but commenced a fire on us as we were. We were encamped in
+a hollow square, and we not only returned the fire, but continued to
+shoot as well as we could in the dark, till day broke, when the Indians
+disappeared. The only guide we had in shooting was to notice the flash
+of their guns, and then shoot as directly at the place as we could
+guess.
+
+In this scrape we had four men killed, and several wounded; but whether
+we killed any of the Indians or not we never could tell, for it is their
+custom always to carry off their dead, if they can possibly do so. We
+buried ours, and then made a large log heap over them, and set it on
+fire, so that the place of their deposite might not be known to the
+savages, who, we knew, would seek for them, that they might scalp them.
+We made some horse litters for our wounded, and took up a retreat. We
+moved on till we came to a large creek which we had to cross; and about
+half of our men had crossed, when the Indians commenced firing on our
+left wing, and they kept it up very warmly. We had left Major Russel and
+his brother at the camp we had moved from that morning, to see what
+discovery they could make as to the movements of the Indians; and about
+this time, while a warm fire was kept up on our left, as I have just
+stated, the major came up in our rear, and was closely pursued by a
+large number of Indians, who immediately commenced a fire on our
+artillery men. They hid themselves behind a large log, and could kill
+one of our men almost every shot, they being in open ground and exposed.
+The worst of all was, two of our colonels just at this trying moment
+left their men, and by _a forced march_, crossed the creek out of the
+reach of the fire. Their names, at this late day, would do the world no
+good, and my object is history alone, and not the slightest interference
+with character. An opportunity was now afforded for Governor Carroll to
+distinguish himself, and on this occasion he did so, by greater bravery
+than I ever saw any other man display. In truth, I believe, as firmly as
+I do that General Jackson is president, that if it hadn't been for
+Carroll, we should all have been genteely licked that time, for we were
+in a devil of a fix; part of our men on one side of the creek, and part
+on the other, and the Indians all the time pouring it on us, as hot as
+fresh mustard to a sore shin. I will not say exactly that the old
+general was whip'd; but I will say, that if we escaped it at all, it was
+like old Henry Snider going to heaven, "mita tam tite squeeze." I think
+he would confess himself, that he was nearer whip'd this time than he
+was at any other, for I know that all the world couldn't make him
+acknowledge that he was _pointedly_ whip'd. I know I was mighty glad
+when it was over, and the savages quit us, for I had begun to think
+there was one behind every tree in the woods.
+
+We buried our dead, the number of whom I have also forgotten; and again
+made horse litters to carry our wounded, and so we put out, and returned
+to Fort Williams, from which place we had started. In the mean time, my
+horse had got crippled, and was unfit for service, and as another
+reinforcement had arrived, I thought they could get along without me for
+a short time; so I got a furlough and went home, for we had had hard
+times again on this hunt, and I began to feel as though I had done
+Indian fighting enough for one time. I remained at home until after the
+army had returned to the Horse-shoe bend, and fought the battle there.
+But not being with them at that time, of course no history of that fight
+can be expected of me.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VII.
+
+
+Soon after this, an army was to be raised to go to Pensacola, and I
+determined to go again with them, for I wanted a small taste of British
+fighting, and I supposed they would be there.
+
+Here again the entreaties of my wife were thrown in the way of my going,
+but all in vain; for I always had a way of just going ahead, at whatever
+I had a mind to. One of my neighbours, hearing I had determined to go,
+came to me, and offered me a hundred dollars to go in his place as a
+substitute, as he had been drafted. I told him I was better raised than
+to hire myself out to be shot at; but that I would go, and he should go
+too, and in that way the government would have the services of us both.
+But we didn't call General Jackson "the government" in those days,
+though we used to go and fight under him in the war.
+
+I fixed up, and joined old Major Russel again; but we couldn't start
+with the main army, but followed on, in a little time, after them. In a
+day or two, we had a hundred and thirty men in our company; and we went
+over and crossed the Muscle Shoals at the same place where I had crossed
+when first out, and when we burned the Black Warriors' town. We passed
+through the Choctaw and Chickesaw nations, on to Fort Stephens, and from
+thence to what is called the Cut-off, at the junction of the Tom-Bigby
+with the Alabama river. This place is near the old Fort Mimms, where the
+Indians committed the great butchery at the commencement of the war.
+
+We were here about two days behind the main army, who had left their
+horses at the Cut-off, and taken it on foot; and they did this because
+there was no chance for forage between there and Pensacola. We did the
+same, leaving men enough to take care of our horses, and cut out on foot
+for that place. It was about eighty miles off; but in good heart we
+shouldered our guns, blankets, and provisions, and trudged merrily on.
+About twelve o'clock the second day, we reached the encampment of the
+main army, which was situated on a hill, overlooking the city of
+Pensacola. My commander, Major Russel, was a great favourite with Gen'l.
+Jackson, and our arrival was hailed with great applause, though we were
+a little after the feast; for they had taken the town and fort before we
+got there. That evening we went down into the town, and could see the
+British fleet lying in sight of the place. We got some liquor, and took
+a "horn" or so, and went back to the camp. We remained there that night,
+and in the morning we marched back towards the Cut-off. We pursued this
+direction till we reached old Fort Mimms, where we remained two or three
+days. It was here that Major Russel was promoted from his command, which
+was only that of a captain of spies, to the command of a major in the
+line. He had been known long before at home as old Major Russel, and so
+we all continued to call him in the army. A Major Childs, from East
+Tennessee, also commanded a battalion, and his and the one Russel was
+now appointed to command, composed a regiment, which, by agreement with
+General Jackson, was to quit his army and go to the south, to kill up
+the Indians on the Scamby river.
+
+General Jackson and the main army set out the next morning for New
+Orleans, and a Colonel Blue took command of the regiment which I have
+before described. We remained, however, a few days after the general's
+departure, and then started also on our route.
+
+As it gave rise to so much war and bloodshed, it may not be improper
+here to give a little description of Fort Mimms, and the manner in which
+the Indian war commenced. The fort was built right in the middle of a
+large old field, and in it the people had been forted so long and so
+quietly, that they didn't apprehend any danger at all, and had,
+therefore, become quite careless. A small negro boy, whose business it
+was to bring up the calves at milking time, had been out for that
+purpose, and on coming back, he said he saw a great many Indians. At
+this the inhabitants took the alarm, and closed their gates and placed
+out their guards, which they continued for a few days. But finding that
+no attack was made, they concluded the little negro had lied; and again
+threw their gates open, and set all their hands out to work their
+fields. The same boy was out again on the same errand, when, returning
+in great haste and alarm, he informed them that he had seen the Indians
+as thick as trees in the woods. He was not believed, but was tucked up
+to receive a flogging for the supposed lie; and was actually getting
+badly licked at the very moment when the Indians came in a troop, loaded
+with rails, with which they stop'd all the port-holes of the fort on one
+side except the bastion; and then they fell in to cutting down the
+picketing. Those inside the fort had only the bastion to shoot from, as
+all the other holes were spiked up; and they shot several of the
+Indians, while engaged in cutting. But as fast as one would fall,
+another would seize up the axe and chop away, until they succeeded in
+cutting down enough of the picketing to admit them to enter. They then
+began to rush through, and continued until they were all in. They
+immediately commenced scalping, without regard to age or sex; having
+forced the inhabitants up to one side of the fort, where they carried on
+the work of death as a butcher would in a slaughter pen.
+
+The scene was particularly described to me by a young man who was in the
+fort when it happened, and subsequently went on with us to Pensacola. He
+said that he saw his father, and mother, his four sisters, and the same
+number of brothers, all butchered in the most shocking manner, and that
+he made his escape by running over the heads of the crowd, who were
+against the fort wall, to the top of the fort, and then jumping off, and
+taking to the woods. He was closely pursued by several Indians, until he
+came to a small byo, across which there was a log. He knew the log was
+hollow on the under side, so he slip'd under the log and hid himself.
+He said he heard the Indians walk over him several times back and
+forward. He remained, nevertheless, still till night, when he came out,
+and finished his escape. The name of this young man has entirely escaped
+my recollection, though his tale greatly excited my feelings. But to
+return to my subject. The regiment marched from where Gen'l. Jackson had
+left us to Fort Montgomery, which was distant from Fort Mimms about a
+mile and a half, and there we remained for some days.
+
+Here we supplied ourselves pretty well with beef, by killing wild cattle
+which had formerly belonged to the people who perished in the fort, but
+had gone wild after their massacre.
+
+When we marched from Fort Montgomery, we went some distance back towards
+Pensacola; then we turned to the left, and passed through a poor piny
+country, till we reached the Scamby river, near which we encamped. We
+had about one thousand men, and as a part of that number, one hundred
+and eighty-six Chickesaw and Choctaw Indians with us. That evening a
+boat landed from Pensacola, bringing many articles that were both good
+and necessary; such as sugar and coffee, and liquors of all kinds. The
+same evening, the Indians we had along proposed to cross the river, and
+the officers thinking it might be well for them to do so, consented; and
+Major Russell went with them, taking sixteen white men, of which number
+I was one. We camped on the opposite bank that night, and early in the
+morning we set out. We had not gone far before we came to a place where
+the whole country was covered with water, and looked like a sea. We
+didn't stop for this, tho', but just put in like so many spaniels, and
+waded on, sometimes up to our armpits, until we reached the pine hills,
+which made our distance through the water about a mile and a half. Here
+we struck up a fire to warm ourselves, for it was cold, and we were
+chilled through by being so long in the water. We again moved on,
+keeping our spies out; two to our left near the bank of the river, two
+straight before us, and two others on our right. We had gone in this way
+about six miles up the river, when our spies on the left came to us
+leaping the brush like so many old bucks, and informed us that they had
+discovered a camp of Creek Indians, and that we must kill them. Here we
+paused for a few minutes, and the prophets pow-wowed over their men
+awhile, and then got out their paint, and painted them, all according to
+their custom when going into battle. They then brought their paint to
+old Major Russell, and said to him, that as he was an officer, he must
+be painted too. He agreed, and they painted him just as they had done
+themselves. We let the Indians understand that we white men would first
+fire on the camp, and then fall back, so as to give the Indians a chance
+to rush in and scalp them. The Chickasaws marched on our left hand, and
+the Choctaws on our right, and we moved on till we got in hearing of the
+camp, where the Indians were employed in beating up what they called
+chainy briar root. On this they mostly subsisted. On a nearer approach
+we found they were on an island, and that we could not get to them.
+While we were chatting about this matter, we heard some guns fired, and
+in a very short time after a keen whoop, which satisfied us, that
+whereever it was, there was war on a small scale. With that we all
+broke, like quarter horses, for the firing; and when we got there we
+found it was our two front spies, who related to us the following
+story:--As they were moving on, they had met with two Creeks who were
+out hunting their horses; as they approached each other, there was a
+large cluster of green bay bushes exactly between them, so that they
+were within a few feet of meeting before either was discovered. Our
+spies walked up to them, and speaking in the Shawnee tongue, informed
+them that General Jackson was at Pensacola, and they were making their
+escape, and wanted to know where they could get something to eat. The
+Creeks told them that nine miles up the Conaker, the river they were
+then on, there was a large camp of Creeks, and they had cattle and
+plenty to eat; and further, that their own camp was on an island about a
+mile off, and just below the mouth of the Conaker. They held their
+conversation and struck up a fire, and smoked together, and shook hands,
+and parted. One of the Creeks had a gun, the other had none; and as soon
+as they had parted, our Choctaws turned round and shot down the one that
+had the gun, and the other attempted to run off. They snapped several
+times at him, but the gun still missing fire, they took after him, and
+overtaking him, one of them struck him over the head with his gun, and
+followed up his blows till he killed him.
+
+The gun was broken in the combat, and they then fired off the gun of the
+Creek they had killed, and raised the war-whoop. When we reached them,
+they had cut off the heads of both the Indians; and each of those
+Indians with us would walk up to one of the heads, and taking his war
+club would strike on it. This was done by every one of them; and when
+they had got done, I took one of their clubs, and walked up as they had
+done, and struck it on the head also. At this they all gathered round
+me, and patting me on the shoulder, would call me "Warrior--warrior."
+
+They scalped the heads, and then we moved on a short distance to where
+we found a trace leading in towards the river. We took this trace and
+pursued it, till we came to where a Spaniard had been killed and
+scalped, together with a woman, who we supposed to be his wife, and also
+four children. I began to feel mighty ticklish along about this time,
+for I knowed if there was no danger then, there had been; and I felt
+exactly like there still was. We, however, went on till we struck the
+river, and then continued down it till we came opposite to the Indian
+camp, where we found they were still beating their roots.
+
+It was now late in the evening, and they were in a thick cane brake. We
+had some few friendly Creeks with us, who said they could decoy them. So
+we all hid behind trees and logs, while the attempt was made. The
+Indians would not agree that we should fire, but pick'd out some of
+their best gunners, and placed them near the river. Our Creeks went down
+to the river's side, and hailed the camp in the Creek language. We heard
+an answer, and an Indian man started down towards the river, but didn't
+come in sight. He went back and again commenced beating his roots, and
+sent a squaw. She came down, and talked with our Creeks until dark came
+on. They told her they wanted her to bring them a canoe. To which she
+replied, that their canoe was on our side; that two of their men had
+gone out to hunt their horses and hadn't yet returned. They were the
+same two we had killed. The canoe was found, and forty of our picked
+Indian warriors were crossed over to take the camp. There was at last
+only one man in it, and he escaped; and they took two squaws, and ten
+children, but killed none of them, of course.
+
+We had run nearly out of provisions, and Major Russell had determined to
+go up the Conaker to the camp we had heard of from the Indians we had
+killed. I was one that he selected to go down the river that night for
+provisions, with the canoe, to where we had left our regiment. I took
+with me a man by the name of John Guess, and one of the friendly Creeks,
+and cut out. It was very dark, and the river was so full that it
+overflowed the banks and the adjacent low bottoms. This rendered it very
+difficult to keep the channel, and particularly as the river was very
+crooked. At about ten o'clock at night we reached the camp, and were to
+return by morning to Major Russell, with provisions for his trip up the
+river; but on informing Colonel Blue of this arrangement, he vetoed it
+as quick as General Jackson did the bank bill; and said, if Major
+Russell didn't come back the next day, it would be bad times for him. I
+found we were not to go up the Conaker to the Indian camp, and a man of
+my company offered to go up in my place to inform Major Russell. I let
+him go; and they reached the major, as I was told, about sunrise in the
+morning, who immediately returned with those who were with him to the
+regiment, and joined us where we crossed the river, as hereafter stated.
+
+The next morning we all fixed up, and marched down the Scamby to a place
+called Miller's Landing, where we swam our horses across, and sent on
+two companies down on the side of the bay opposite to Pensacola, where
+the Indians had fled when the main army first marched to that place. One
+was the company of Captain William Russell, a son of the old major, and
+the other was commanded by a Captain Trimble. They went on, and had a
+little skirmish with the Indians. They killed some, and took all the
+balance prisoners, though I don't remember the numbers. We again met
+those companies in a day or two, and sent the prisoners they had taken
+on to Fort Montgomery, in charge of some of our Indians.
+
+I did hear, that after they left us, the Indians killed and scalped all
+the prisoners, and I never heard the report contradicted. I cannot
+positively say it was true, but I think it entirely probable, for it is
+very much like the Indian character.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VIII.
+
+
+When we made a move from the point where we met the companies, we set
+out for Chatahachy, the place for which we had started when we left Fort
+Montgomery. At the start we had taken only twenty days' rations of
+flour, and eight days' rations of beef; and it was now thirty-four days
+before we reached that place. We were, therefore, in extreme suffering
+for want of something to eat, and exhausted with our exposure and the
+fatigues of our journey. I remember well, that I had not myself tasted
+bread but twice in nineteen days. I had bought a pretty good supply of
+coffee from the boat that had reached us from Pensacola, on the Scamby,
+and on that we chiefly subsisted. At length, one night our spies came
+in, and informed us they had found Holm's village on the Chatahachy
+river; and we made an immediate push for that place. We traveled all
+night, expecting to get something to eat when we got there. We arrived
+about sunrise, and near the place prepared for battle. We were all so
+furious, that even the certainty of a pretty hard fight could not have
+restrained us. We made a furious charge on the town, but to our great
+mortification and surprise, there wasn't a human being in it. The
+Indians had all run off and left it. We burned the town, however; but,
+melancholy to tell, we found no provision whatever. We then turned
+about, and went back to the camp we had left the night before, as nearly
+starved as any set of poor fellows ever were in the world.
+
+We staid there only a little while, when we divided our regiment; and
+Major Childs, with his men, went back the way we had come for a
+considerable distance, and then turned to Baton Rouge, where they joined
+General Jackson and the main army on their return from Orleans. Major
+Russell and his men struck for Fort Decatur, on the Talapoosa river.
+Some of our friendly Indians, who knew the country, went on ahead of us,
+as we had no trail except the one they made to follow. With them we sent
+some of our ablest horses and men, to get us some provisions, to prevent
+us from absolutely starving to death. As the army marched, I hunted
+every day, and would kill every hawk, bird, and squirrel that I could
+find. Others did the same; and it was a rule with us, that when we
+stop'd at night, the hunters would throw all they killed in a pile, and
+then we would make a general division among all the men. One evening I
+came in, having killed nothing that day. I had a very sick man in my
+mess, and I wanted something for him to eat, even if I starved myself.
+So I went to the fire of a Captain Cowen, who commanded my company after
+the promotion of Major Russell, and informed him that I was on the hunt
+of something for a sick man to eat. I knowed the captain was as bad off
+as the rest of us, but I found him broiling a turkey's gizzard. He said
+he had divided the turkey out among the sick, that Major Smiley had
+killed it, and that nothing else had been killed that day. I immediately
+went to Smiley's fire, where I found him broiling another gizzard. I
+told him, that it was the first turkey I had ever seen have two
+gizzards. But so it was, I got nothing for my sick man. And now seeing
+that every fellow must shift for himself, I determined that in the
+morning, I would come up missing; so I took my mess and cut out to go
+ahead of the army. We know'd that nothing more could happen to us if we
+went than if we staid, for it looked like it was to be starvation any
+way; we therefore determined to go on the old saying, root hog or die.
+We passed two camps, at which our men, that had gone on before us, had
+killed Indians. At one they had killed nine, and at the other three.
+About daylight we came to a small river, which I thought was the Scamby;
+but we continued on for three days, killing little or nothing to eat;
+till, at last, we all began to get nearly ready to give up the ghost,
+and lie down and die; for we had no prospect of provision, and we knew
+we couldn't go much further without it.
+
+We came to a large prairie, that was about six miles across it, and in
+this I saw a trail which I knowed was made by bear, deer, and turkeys.
+We went on through it till we came to a large creek, and the low grounds
+were all set over with wild rye, looking as green as a wheat field. We
+here made a halt, unsaddled our horses, and turned them loose to graze.
+
+One of my companions, a Mr. Vanzant, and myself, then went up the low
+grounds to hunt. We had gone some distance, finding nothing; when at
+last, I found a squirrel; which I shot, but he got into a hole in the
+tree. The game was small, but necessity is not very particular; so I
+thought I must have him, and I climbed that tree thirty feet high,
+without a limb, and pulled him out of his hole. I shouldn't relate such
+small matters, only to show what lengths a hungry man will go to, to
+get something to eat. I soon killed two other squirrels, and fired at a
+large hawk. At this a large gang of turkeys rose from the cane brake,
+and flew across the creek to where my friend was, who had just before
+crossed it. He soon fired on a large gobler, and I heard it fall. By
+this time my gun was loaded again, and I saw one sitting on my side of
+the creek, which had flew over when he fired; so I blazed away, and down
+I brought him. I gathered him up, and a fine turkey he was. I now began
+to think we had struck a breeze of luck, and almost forgot our past
+sufferings, in the prospect of once more having something to eat. I
+raised the shout, and my comrade came to me, and we went on to our camp
+with the game we had killed. While we were gone, two of our mess had
+been out, and each of them had found a bee tree. We turned into cooking
+some of our game, but we had neither salt nor bread. Just at this
+moment, on looking down the creek, we saw our men, who had gone on
+before us for provisions, coming to us. They came up, and measured out
+to each man a cupfull of flower. With this, we thickened our soup, when
+our turkey was cooked, and our friends took dinner with us, and then
+went on.
+
+We now took our tomahawks, and went and cut our bee-trees, out of which
+we got a fine chance of honey; though we had been starving so long that
+we feared to eat much at a time, till, like the Irish by hanging, we got
+used to it again. We rested that night without moving our camp; and the
+next morning myself and Vanzant again turned out to hunt. We had not
+gone far, before I wounded a fine buck very badly; and while pursuing
+him, I was walking on a large tree that had fallen down, when from the
+top of it, a large bear broke out and ran off. I had no dogs, and I was
+sorry enough for it; for of all the hunting I ever did, I have always
+delighted most in bear hunting. Soon after this, I killed a large buck;
+and we had just gotten him to camp, when our poor starved army came up.
+They told us, that to lessen their sufferings as much as possible,
+Captain William Russell had had his horse led up to be shot for them to
+eat, just at the moment that they saw our men returning, who had carried
+on the flour.
+
+We were now about fourteen miles from Fort Decatur, and we gave away all
+our meat, and honey, and went on with the rest of the army. When we got
+there, they could give us only one ration of meat, but not a mouthful of
+bread. I immediately got a canoe, and taking my gun, crossed over the
+river, and went to the Big Warrior's town. I had a large hat, and I
+offered an Indian a silver dollar for my hat full of corn. He told me
+that his corn was all "_shuestea_," which in English means, it was all
+gone. But he showed me where an Indian lived, who, he said, had corn. I
+went to him, and made the same offer. He could talk a little broken
+English, and said to me, "You got any powder? You got bullet?" I told
+him I had. He then said, "Me swap my corn, for powder and bullet." I
+took out about ten bullets, and showed him; and he proposed to give me a
+hat full of corn for them. I took him up, mighty quick. I then offered
+to give him ten charges of powder for another hat full of corn. To this
+he agreed very willingly. So I took off my hunting-shirt, and tied up my
+corn; and though it had cost me very little of my powder and lead, yet I
+wouldn't have taken fifty silver dollars for it. I returned to the camp,
+and the next morning we started for the Hickory Ground, which was thirty
+miles off. It was here that General Jackson met the Indians, and made
+peace with the body of the nation.
+
+We got nothing to eat at this place, and we had yet to go forty-nine
+miles, over a rough and wilderness country, to Fort Williams. Parched
+corn, and but little even of that, was our daily subsistence. When we
+reached Fort Williams, we got one ration of pork and one of flour, which
+was our only hope until we could reach Fort Strother.
+
+The horses were now giving out, and I remember to have seen thirteen
+good horses left in one day, the saddles and bridles being thrown away.
+It was thirty-nine miles to Fort Strother, and we had to pass directly
+by Fort Talladego, where we first had the big Indian battle with the
+eleven hundred painted warriors. We went through the old battle ground,
+and it looked like a great gourd patch; the sculls of the Indians who
+were killed still lay scattered all about, and many of their frames were
+still perfect, as the bones had not separated. But about five miles
+before we got to this battle ground, I struck a trail, which I followed
+until it led me to one of their towns. Here I swap'd some more of my
+powder and bullets for a little corn.
+
+I pursued on, by myself, till some time after night, when I came up with
+the rest of the army. That night my company and myself did pretty well,
+as I divided out my corn among them. The next morning we met the East
+Tennessee troops, who were on their road to Mobile, and my youngest
+brother was with them. They had plenty of corn and provisions, and they
+gave me what I wanted for myself and my horse. I remained with them
+that night, though my company went across the Coosa river to the fort,
+where they also had the good fortune to find plenty of provisions. Next
+morning, I took leave of my brother and all my old neighbours, for there
+were a good many of them with him, and crossed over to my men at the
+fort. Here I had enough to go on, and after remaining a few days, cut
+out for home. Nothing more, worthy of the reader's attention, transpired
+till I was safely landed at home once more with my wife and children. I
+found them all well and doing well; and though I was only a rough sort
+of a backwoodsman, they seemed mighty glad to see me, however little the
+quality folks might suppose it. For I do reckon we love as hard in the
+backwood country, as any people in the whole creation.
+
+But I had been home only a few days, when we received orders to start
+again, and go on to the Black Warrior and Cahawba rivers, to see if
+there was no Indians there. I know'd well enough there was none, and I
+wasn't willing to trust my craw any more where there was neither any
+fighting to do, nor any thing to go on; and so I agreed to give a young
+man, who wanted to go, the balance of my wages if he would serve out my
+time, which was about a month. He did so, and when they returned, sure
+enough they hadn't seen an Indian any more than if they had been all the
+time chopping wood in my clearing. This closed my career as a warrior,
+and I am glad of it, for I like life now a heap better than I did then;
+and I am glad all over that I lived to see these times, which I should
+not have done if I had kept fooling along in war, and got used up at it.
+When I say I am glad, I just mean I am glad I am alive, for there is a
+confounded heap of things I an't glad of at all. I an't glad, for
+example, that the "government" moved the deposites, and if my military
+glory should take such a turn as to make me president after the
+general's time, I'll move them back; yes, I, the "government," will
+"take the responsibility," and move them back again. If I don't, I wish
+I may be shot.
+
+But I am glad that I am now through war matters, and I reckon the reader
+is too, for they have no fun in them at all; and less if he had had to
+pass through them first, and then to write them afterwards. But for the
+dullness of their narrative, I must try to make amends by relating some
+of the curious things that happened to me in private life, and when
+_forced_ to become a public man, as I shall have to be again, if ever I
+consent to take the presidential chair.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IX.
+
+
+I continued at home now, working my farm for two years, as the war
+finally closed soon after I quit the service. The battle at New Orleans
+had already been fought, and treaties were made with the Indians which
+put a stop to their hostilities.
+
+But in this time, I met with the hardest trial which ever falls to the
+lot of man. Death, that cruel leveller of all distinctions,--to whom the
+prayers and tears of husbands, and of even helpless infancy, are
+addressed in vain,--entered my humble cottage, and tore from my children
+an affectionate good mother, and from me a tender and loving wife.
+
+It is a scene long gone by, and one which it would be supposed I had
+almost forgotten; yet when I turn my memory back on it, it seems as but
+the work of yesterday. It was the doing of the Almighty, whose ways are
+always right, though we sometimes think they fall heavily on us; and as
+painful as is even yet the remembrance of her sufferings, and the loss
+sustained by my little children and myself, yet I have no wish to lift
+up the voice of complaint. I was left with three children; the two
+oldest were sons, the youngest a daughter, and, at that time, a mere
+infant. It appeared to me, at that moment, that my situation was the
+worst in the world. I couldn't bear the thought of scattering my
+children, and so I got my youngest brother, who was also married, and
+his family to live with me. They took as good care of my children as
+they well could, but yet it wasn't all like the care of a mother. And
+though their company was to me in every respect like that of a brother
+and sister, yet it fell far short of being like that of a wife. So I
+came to the conclusion it wouldn't do, but that I must have another
+wife.
+
+There lived in the neighbourhood, a widow lady whose husband had been
+killed in the war. She had two children, a son and daughter, and both
+quite small, like my own. I began to think, that as we were both in the
+same situation, it might be that we could do something for each other;
+and I therefore began to hint a little around the matter, as we were
+once and a while together. She was a good industrious woman, and owned a
+snug little farm, and lived quite comfortable. I soon began to pay my
+respects to her in real good earnest; but I was as sly about it as a fox
+when he is going to rob a hen-roost. I found that my company wasn't at
+all disagreeable to her; and I thought I could treat her children with
+so much friendship as to make her a good stepmother to mine, and in this
+I wan't mistaken, as we soon bargained, and got married, and then went
+ahead. In a great deal of peace we raised our first crop of children,
+and they are all married and doing well. But we had a second crop
+together; and I shall notice them as I go along, as my wife and myself
+both had a hand in them, and they therefore belong to the history of my
+second marriage.
+
+The next fall after this marriage, three of my neighbours and myself
+determined to explore a new country. Their names were Robinson, Frazier,
+and Rich. We set out for the Creek country, crossing the Tennessee
+river; and after having made a day's travel, we stop'd at the house of
+one of my old acquaintances, who had settled there after the war.
+Resting here a day, Frazier turned out to hunt, being a great hunter;
+but he got badly bit by a very poisonous snake, and so we left him and
+went on. We passed through a large rich valley, called Jones's valley,
+where several other families had settled, and continued our course till
+we came near to the place where Tuscaloosa now stands. Here we camped,
+as there were no inhabitants, and hobbled out our horses for the night.
+About two hours before day, we heard the bells on our horses going back
+the way we had come, as they had started to leave us. As soon as it was
+daylight, I started in pursuit of them on foot, and carrying my rifle,
+which was a very heavy one. I went ahead the whole day, wading creeks
+and swamps, and climbing mountains; but I couldn't overtake our horses,
+though I could hear of them at every house they passed. I at last found
+I couldn't catch up with them, and so I gave up the hunt, and turned
+back to the last house I had passed, and staid there till morning. From
+the best calculation we could make, I had walked over fifty miles that
+day; and the next morning I was so sore, and fatigued, that I felt like
+I couldn't walk any more. But I was anxious to get back to where I had
+left my company, and so I started and went on, but mighty slowly, till
+after the middle of the day. I now began to feel mighty sick, and had a
+dreadful head-ache. My rifle was so heavy, and I felt so weak, that I
+lay down by the side of the trace, in a perfect wilderness too, to see
+if I wouldn't get better. In a short time some Indians came along. They
+had some ripe melons, and wanted me to eat some, but I was so sick I
+couldn't. They then signed to me, that I would die, and be buried; a
+thing I was confoundedly afraid of myself. But I asked them how near it
+was to any house? By their signs, again, they made me understand it was
+a mile and a half. I got up to go; but when I rose, I reeled about like
+a cow with the blind staggers, or a fellow who had taken too many
+"horns." One of the Indians proposed to go with me, and carry my gun. I
+gave him half a dollar, and accepted his offer. We got to the house, by
+which time I was pretty far gone, but was kindly received, and got on to
+a bed. The woman did all she could for me with her warm teas, but I
+still continued bad enough, with a high fever, and generally out of my
+senses. The next day two of my neighbours were passing the road, and
+heard of my situation, and came to where I was. They were going nearly
+the route I had intended to go, to look at the country; and so they took
+me first on one of their horses, and then on the other, till they got me
+back to where I had left my company. I expected I would get better, and
+be able to go on with them, but, instead of this, I got worse and worse;
+and when we got there, I wan't able to sit up at all. I thought now the
+jig was mighty nigh up with me, but I determined to keep a stiff upper
+lip. They carried me to a house, and each of my comrades bought him a
+horse, and they all set out together, leaving me behind. I knew but
+little that was going on for about two weeks; but the family treated me
+with every possible kindness in their power, and I shall always feel
+thankful to them. The man's name was Jesse Jones. At the end of two
+weeks I began to mend without the help of a doctor, or of any doctor's
+means. In this time, however, as they told me, I was speechless for five
+days, and they had no thought that I would ever speak again,--in
+Congress or any where else. And so the woman, who had a bottle of
+Batesman's draps, thought if they killed me, I would only die any how,
+and so she would try it with me. She gave me the whole bottle, which
+throwed me into a sweat that continued on me all night; when at last I
+seemed to make up, and spoke, and asked her for a drink of water. This
+almost alarmed her, for she was looking every minute for me to die. She
+gave me the water, and, from that time, I began slowly to mend, and so
+kept on till I was able at last to walk about a little. I might easily
+have been mistaken for one of the Kitchen Cabinet, I looked so much
+like a ghost. I have been particular in giving a history of this
+sickness, not because I believe it will interest any body much now, nor,
+indeed, do I _certainly_ know that it ever will. But if I should be
+forced to take the "white house," then it will be good history; and
+every one will look on it as important. And I can't, for my life, help
+laughing now, to think, that when all my folks get around me, wanting
+good fat offices, how so many of them will say, "What a good thing it
+was that that kind woman had the bottle of draps, that saved PRESIDENT
+CROCKETT'S life,--the second greatest and best"!!!!! Good, says I, my
+noble fellow! You take the post office; or the navy; or the war office;
+or may-be the treasury. But if I give him the treasury, there's no devil
+if I don't make him agree first to fetch back them deposites. And if
+it's even the post office, I'll make him promise to keep his money
+'counts without any figuring, as that throws the whole concern heels
+over head in debt, in little or no time.
+
+But when I got so I could travel a little, I got a waggoner who was
+passing along to hawl me to where he lived, which was about twenty miles
+from my house. I still mended as we went along, and when we got to his
+stopping place, I hired one of his horses, and went on home. I was so
+pale, and so much reduced, that my face looked like it had been half
+soled with brown paper.
+
+When I got there, it was to the utter astonishment of my wife; for she
+supposed I was dead. My neighbours who had started with me had returned
+and took my horse home, which they had found with their's; and they
+reported that they had seen men who had helped to bury me; and who saw
+me draw my last breath. I know'd this was a whapper of a lie, as soon as
+I heard it. My wife had hired a man, and sent him out to see what had
+become of my money and other things; but I had missed the man as I went
+in, and he didn't return until some time after I got home, as he went
+all the way to where I lay sick, before he heard that I was still in the
+land of the living and a-kicking.
+
+The place on which I lived was sickly, and I was determined to leave it.
+I therefore set out the next fall to look at the country which had been
+purchased of the Chickasaw tribe of Indians. I went on to a place called
+Shoal Creek, about eighty miles from where I lived, and here again I got
+sick. I took the ague and fever, which I supposed was brought on me by
+camping out. I remained here for some time, as I was unable to go
+farther; and in that time, I became so well pleased with the country
+about there, that I resolved to settle in it. It was just only a little
+distance in the purchase, and no order had been established there; but I
+thought I could get along without order as well as any body else. And so
+I moved and settled myself down on the head of Shoal Creek. We remained
+here some two or three years, without any law at all; and so many bad
+characters began to flock in upon us, that we found it necessary to set
+up a sort of temporary government of our own. I don't mean that we made
+any president, and called him the "government," but we met and made what
+we called a corporation; and I reckon we called _it_ wrong, for it
+wa'n't a bank, and hadn't any deposites; and now they call the bank a
+corporation. But be this as it may, we lived in the back-woods, and
+didn't profess to know much, and no doubt used many wrong words. But we
+met, and appointed magistrates and constables to keep order. We didn't
+fix any laws for them, tho'; for we supposed they would know law enough,
+whoever they might be; and so we left it to themselves to fix the laws.
+
+I was appointed one of the magistrates; and when a man owed a debt, and
+wouldn't pay it, I and my constable ordered our warrant, and then he
+would take the man, and bring him before me for trial. I would give
+judgment against him, and then an order of an execution would easily
+scare the debt out of him. If any one was charged with marking his
+neighbour's hogs, or with stealing any thing, which happened pretty
+often in those days,--I would have him taken, and if there was tolerable
+grounds for the charge, I would have him well whip'd and cleared. We
+kept this up till our Legislature added us to the white settlements in
+Giles county; and appointed magistrates by law, to organize matters in
+the parts where I lived. They appointed nearly every man a magistrate
+who had belonged to our corporation. I was then, of course, made a
+squire according to law; though now the honour rested more heavily on me
+than before. For, at first, whenever I told my constable, says I--"Catch
+that fellow, and bring him up for trial"--away he went, and the fellow
+must come, dead or alive; for we considered this a good warrant, though
+it was only in verbal writings. But after I was appointed by the
+assembly, they told me, my warrants must be in real writing, and signed;
+and that I must keep a book, and write my proceedings in it. This was a
+hard business on me, for I could just barely write my own name; but to
+do this, and write the warrants too, was at least a huckleberry over my
+persimmon. I had a pretty well informed constable, however; and he aided
+me very much in this business. Indeed I had so much confidence in him,
+that I told him, when we should happen to be out anywhere, and see that
+a warrant was necessary, and would have a good effect, he need'nt take
+the trouble to come all the way to me to get one, but he could just fill
+out one; and then on the trial I could correct the whole business if he
+had committed any error. In this way I got on pretty well, till by care
+and attention I improved my handwriting in such manner as to be able to
+prepare my warrants, and keep my record book, without much difficulty.
+My judgments were never appealed from, and if they had been they would
+have stuck like wax, as I gave my decisions on the principles of common
+justice and honesty between man and man, and relied on natural born
+sense, and not on law, learning to guide me; for I had never read a page
+in a law book in all my life.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER X.
+
+
+About the time we were getting under good headway in our new government,
+a Capt. Matthews came to me and told me he was a candidate for the
+office of colonel of a regiment, and that I must run for first major in
+the same regiment. I objected to this, telling him that I thought I had
+done my share of fighting, and that I wanted nothing to do with military
+appointments.
+
+He still insisted, until at last I agreed, and of course had every
+reason to calculate on his support in my election. He was an early
+settler in that country, and made rather more corn than the rest of us;
+and knowing it would afford him a good opportunity to electioneer a
+little, he made a great corn husking, and a great frolic, and gave a
+general treat, asking every body over the whole country. Myself and my
+family were, of course, invited. When I got there, I found a very large
+collection of people, and some friend of mine soon informed me that the
+captain's son was going to offer against me for the office of major,
+which he had seemed so anxious for me to get. I cared nothing about the
+office, but it put my dander up high enough to see, that after he had
+pressed me so hard to offer, he was countenancing, if not encouraging, a
+secret plan to beat me. I took the old gentleman out, and asked him
+about it. He told me it was true his son was going to run as a
+candidate, and that he hated worse to run against me than any man in the
+county. I told him his son need give himself no uneasiness about that;
+that I shouldn't run against him for major, but against his daddy for
+colonel. He took me by the hand, and we went into the company. He then
+made a speech, and informed the people that I was his opponent. I
+mounted up for a speech too. I told the people the cause of my opposing
+him, remarking that as I had the whole family to run against any way, I
+was determined to levy on the head of the mess. When the time for the
+election came, his son was opposed by another man for major; and he and
+his daddy were both badly beaten. I just now began to take a rise, as in
+a little time I was asked to offer for the Legislature in the counties
+of Lawrence and Heckman.
+
+I offered my name in the month of February, and started about the first
+of March with a drove of horses to the lower part of the state of North
+Carolina. This was in the year 1821, and I was gone upwards of three
+months. I returned, and set out electioneering, which was a bran-fire
+new business to me. It now became necessary that I should tell the
+people something about the government, and an eternal sight of other
+things that I knowed nothing more about than I did about Latin, and law,
+and such things as that. I have said before that in those days none of
+us called Gen'l. Jackson the government, nor did he seem in as fair a
+way to become so as I do now; but I knowed so little about it, that if
+any one had told me he was "the government," I should have believed it,
+for I had never read even a newspaper in my life, or any thing else, on
+the subject. But over all my difficulties, it seems to me I was born for
+luck, though it would be hard for any one to guess what sort. I will,
+however, explain that hereafter.
+
+I went first into Heckman county, to see what I could do among the
+people as a candidate. Here they told me that they wanted to move their
+town nearer to the centre of the county, and I must come out in favour
+of it. There's no devil if I knowed what this meant, or how the town was
+to be moved; and so I kept dark, going on the identical same plan that I
+now find is called "_non-committal_." About this time there was a great
+squirrel hunt on Duck river, which was among my people. They were to
+hunt two days: then to meet and count the scalps, and have a big
+barbecue, and what might be called a tip-top country frolic. The dinner,
+and a general treat, was all to be paid for by the party having taken
+the fewest scalps. I joined one side, taking the place of one of the
+hunters, and got a gun ready for the hunt. I killed a great many
+squirrels, and when we counted scalps, my party was victorious.
+
+The company had every thing to eat and drink that could be furnished in
+so new a country, and much fun and good humour prevailed. But before the
+regular frolic commenced, I mean the dancing, I was called on to make a
+speech as a candidate; which was a business I was as ignorant of as an
+outlandish negro.
+
+A public document I had never seen, nor did I know there were such
+things; and how to begin I couldn't tell. I made many apologies, and
+tried to get off, for I know'd I had a man to run against who could
+speak prime, and I know'd, too, that I wa'n't able to shuffle and cut
+with him. He was there, and knowing my ignorance as well as I did
+myself, he also urged me to make a speech. The truth is, he thought my
+being a candidate was a mere matter of sport; and didn't think, for a
+moment, that he was in any danger from an ignorant back-woods bear
+hunter. But I found I couldn't get off, and so I determined just to go
+ahead, and leave it to chance what I should say. I got up and told the
+people, I reckoned they know'd what I come for, but if not, I could tell
+them. I had come for their votes, and if they didn't watch mighty close,
+I'd get them too. But the worst of all was, that I couldn't tell them
+any thing about government. I tried to speak about something, and I
+cared very little what, until I choaked up as bad as if my mouth had
+been jam'd and cram'd chock full of dry mush. There the people stood,
+listening all the while, with their eyes, mouths and ear all open, to
+catch every word I would speak.
+
+At last I told them I was like a fellow I had heard of not long before.
+He was beating on the head of an empty barrel near the road-side, when a
+traveler, who was passing along, asked him what he was doing that for?
+The fellow replied, that there was some cider in that barrel a few days
+before, and he was trying to see if there was any then, but if there was
+he couldn't get at it. I told them that there had been a little bit of a
+speech in me a while ago, but I believed I couldn't get it out. They
+all roared out in a mighty laugh, and I told some other anecdotes,
+equally amusing to them, and believing I had them in a first-rate way, I
+quit and got down, thanking the people for their attention. But I took
+care to remark that I was as dry as a powder horn, and that I thought it
+was time for us all to wet our whistles a little; and so I put off to
+the liquor stand, and was followed by the greater part of the crowd.
+
+I felt certain this was necessary, for I knowed my competitor could open
+government matters to them as easy as he pleased. He had, however,
+mighty few left to hear him, as I continued with the crowd, now and then
+taking a horn, and telling good humoured stories, till he was done
+speaking. I found I was good for the votes at the hunt, and when we
+broke up, I went on to the town of Vernon, which was the same they
+wanted me to move. Here they pressed me again on the subject, and I
+found I could get either party by agreeing with them. But I told them I
+didn't know whether it would be right or not, and so couldn't promise
+either way.
+
+Their court commenced on the next Monday, as the barbacue was on a
+Saturday, and the candidates for governor and for Congress, as well as
+my competitor and myself, all attended. The thought of having to make a
+speech made my knees feel mighty weak, and set my heart to fluttering
+almost as bad as my first love scrape with the Quaker's niece. But as
+good luck would have it, these big candidates spoke nearly all day, and
+when they quit, the people were worn out with fatigue, which afforded me
+a good apology for not discussing the government. But I listened mighty
+close to them, and was learning pretty fast about political matters.
+When they were all done, I got up and told some laughable story, and
+quit. I found I was safe in those parts, and so I went home, and didn't
+go back again till after the election was over. But to cut this matter
+short, I was elected, doubling my competitor, and nine votes over.
+
+A short time after this, I was in Pulaski, where I met with Colonel
+Polk, now a member of Congress from Tennessee. He was at that time a
+member elected to the Legislature, as well as myself; and in a large
+company he said to me, "Well, colonel, I suppose we shall have a radical
+change of the judiciary at the next session of the Legislature." "Very
+likely, sir," says I, and I put out quicker, for I was afraid some one
+would ask me what the judiciary was; and if I knowed I wish I may be
+shot. I don't indeed believe I had ever before heard that there was any
+such thing in all nature; but still I was not willing that the people
+there should know how ignorant I was about it.
+
+When the time for meeting of the Legislature arrived, I went on, and
+before I had been there long, I could have told what the judiciary was,
+and what the government was too; and many other things that I had known
+nothing about before.
+
+About this time I met with a very severe misfortune, which I may be
+pardoned for naming, as it made a great change in my circumstances, and
+kept me back very much in the world. I had built an extensive grist
+mill, and powder mill, all connected together, and also a large
+distillery. They had cost me upwards of three thousand dollars, more
+than I was worth in the world. The first news that I heard after I got
+to the Legislature, was, that my mills were--not blown up sky high, as
+you would guess, by my powder establishment,--but swept away all to
+smash by a large fresh, that came soon after I left home. I had, of
+course, to stop my distillery, as my grinding was broken up; and,
+indeed, I may say, that the misfortune just made a complete mash of me.
+I had some likely negroes, and a good stock of almost every thing about
+me, and, best of all, I had an honest wife. She didn't advise me, as is
+too fashionable, to smuggle up this, and that, and t'other, to go on at
+home; but she told me, says she, "Just pay up, as long as you have a
+bit's worth in the world; and then every body will be satisfied, and we
+will scuffle for more." This was just such talk as I wanted to hear, for
+a man's wife can hold him devlish uneasy, if she begins to scold, and
+fret, and perplex him, at a time when he has a full load for a rail-road
+car on his mind already.
+
+And so, you see, I determined not to break full handed, but thought it
+better to keep a good conscience with an empty purse, than to get a bad
+opinion of myself, with a full one. I therefore gave up all I had, and
+took a bran-fire new start.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XI.
+
+
+Having returned from the Legislature, I determined to make another move,
+and so I took my eldest son with me, and a young man by the name of
+Abram Henry, and cut out for the Obion. I selected a spot when I got
+there, where I determined to settle; and the nearest house to it was
+seven miles, the next nearest was fifteen, and so on to twenty. It was a
+complete wilderness, and full of Indians who were hunting. Game was
+plenty of almost every kind, which suited me exactly, as I was always
+fond of hunting. The house which was nearest me, and which, as I have
+already stated, was seven miles off, and on the different side of the
+Obion river, belonged to a man by the name of Owens; and I started to go
+there. I had taken one horse along, to pack our provision, and when I
+got to the water I hobbled him out to graze, until I got back; as there
+was no boat to cross the river in, and it was so high that it had
+overflowed all the bottoms and low country near it.
+
+We now took water like so many beavers, notwithstanding it was mighty
+cold, and waded on. The water would sometimes be up to our necks, and at
+others not so deep; but I went, of course, before, and carried a pole,
+with which I would feel along before me, to see how deep it was, and to
+guard against falling into a slough, as there was many in our way. When
+I would come to one, I would take out my tomahawk and cut a small tree
+across it, and then go ahead again. Frequently my little son would have
+to swim, even where myself and the young man could wade; but we worked
+on till at last we got to the channel of the river, which made it about
+half a mile we had waded from where we took water. I saw a large tree
+that had fallen into the river from the other side, but it didn't reach
+across. One stood on the same bank where we were, that I thought I could
+fall, so as to reach the other; and so at it we went with my tomahawk,
+cutting away till we got it down; and, as good luck would have it, it
+fell right, and made us a way that we could pass.
+
+When we got over this, it was still a sea of water as far as our eyes
+could reach. We took into it again, and went ahead, for about a mile,
+hardly ever seeing a single spot of land, and sometimes very deep. At
+last we come in sight of land, which was a very pleasing thing; and when
+we got out, we went but a little way, before we came in sight of the
+house, which was more pleasing than ever; for we were wet all over, and
+mighty cold. I felt mighty sorry when I would look at my little boy, and
+see him shaking like he had the worst sort of an ague, for there was no
+time for fever then. As we got near to the house, we saw Mr. Owens and
+several men that were with him, just starting away. They saw us, and
+stop'd, but looked much astonished until we got up to them, and I made
+myself known. The men who were with him were the owners of a boat which
+was the first that ever went that far up the Obion river; and some hands
+he had hired to carry it about a hundred miles still further up, by
+water, tho' it was only about thirty by land, as the river is very
+crooked.
+
+They all turned back to the house with me, where I found Mrs. Owens, a
+fine, friendly old woman; and her kindness to my little boy did me ten
+times as much good as any thing she could have done for me, if she had
+tried her best. The old gentleman set out his bottle to us, and I
+concluded that if a horn wasn't good then, there was no use for its
+invention. So I swig'd off about a half pint, and the young man was by
+no means bashful in such a case; he took a strong pull at it too. I then
+gave my boy some, and in a little time we felt pretty well. We dried
+ourselves by the fire, and were asked to go on board of the boat that
+evening. I agreed to do so, but left my son with the old lady, and
+myself and my young man went to the boat with Mr. Owens and the others.
+The boat was loaded with whiskey, flour, sugar, coffee, salt, castings,
+and other articles suitable for the country; and they were to receive
+five hundred dollars to land the load at M'Lemore's Bluff, beside the
+profit they could make on their load. This was merely to show that boats
+could get up to that point. We staid all night with them, and had a high
+night of it, as I took steam enough to drive out all the cold that was
+in me, and about three times as much more. In the morning we concluded
+to go on with the boat to where a great _harricane_ had crossed the
+river, and blowed all the timber down into it. When we got there, we
+found the river was falling fast, and concluded we couldn't get through
+the timber without more rise; so we drop'd down opposite Mr. Owens'
+again, where they determined to wait for more water.
+
+The next day it rained rip-roriously, and the river rose pretty
+considerable, but not enough yet. And so I got the boatsmen all to go
+out with me to where I was going to settle, and we slap'd up a cabin in
+little or no time. I got from the boat four barrels of meal, and one of
+salt, and about ten gallons of whiskey.
+
+To pay for these, I agreed to go with the boat up the river to their
+landing place. I got also a large middling of bacon, and killed a fine
+deer, and left them for my young man and my little boy, who were to stay
+at my cabin till I got back; which I expected would be in six or seven
+days. We cut out, and moved up to the harricane, where we stop'd for the
+night. In the morning I started about daylight, intending to kill a
+deer, as I had no thought they would get the boat through the timber
+that day. I had gone but a little way before I killed a fine buck, and
+started to go back to the boat; but on the way I came on the tracks of a
+large gang of elks, and so I took after them. I had followed them only a
+little distance when I saw them, and directly after I saw two large
+bucks. I shot one down, and the other wouldn't leave him; so I loaded
+my gun, and shot him down too. I hung them up, and went ahead again
+after my elks. I pursued on till after the middle of the day before I
+saw them again; but they took the hint before I got in shooting
+distance, and run off. I still pushed on till late in the evening, when
+I found I was about four miles from where I had left the boat, and as
+hungry as a wolf, for I hadn't eaten a bite that day.
+
+I started down the edge of the river low grounds, giving out the pursuit
+of my elks, and hadn't gone hardly any distance at all, before I saw two
+more bucks, very large fellows too. I took a blizzard at one of them,
+and up he tumbled. The other ran off a few jumps and stop'd; and stood
+there till I loaded again, and fired at him. I knock'd his trotters from
+under him, and then I hung them both up. I pushed on again; and about
+sunset I saw three other bucks. I down'd with one of them, and the other
+two ran off. I hung this one up also, having now killed six that day. I
+then pushed on till I got to the harricane, and at the lower edge of it,
+about where I expected the boat was. Here I hollered as hard as I could
+roar, but could get no answer. I fired off my gun, and the men on the
+boat fired one too; but quite contrary to my expectation, they had got
+through the timber, and were about two miles above me. It was now dark,
+and I had to crawl through the fallen timber the best way I could; and
+if the reader don't know it was bad enough, I am sure I do. For the
+vines and briers had grown all through it, and so thick, that a good fat
+coon couldn't much more than get along. I got through at last, and went
+on near to where I had killed my last deer, and once more fired off my
+gun, which was again answered from the boat, which was still a little
+above me. I moved on as fast as I could, but soon came to water, and not
+knowing how deep it was, I halted and hollered till they came to me with
+a skiff. I now got to the boat, without further difficulty; but the
+briers had worked on me at such a rate, that I felt like I wanted sewing
+up, all over. I took a pretty stiff horn, which soon made me feel much
+better; but I was so tired that I could hardly work my jaws to eat.
+
+In the morning, myself and a young man started and brought in the first
+buck I had killed; and after breakfast we went and brought in the last
+one. The boat then started, but we again went and got the two I had
+killed just as I turned down the river in the evening; and we then
+pushed on and o'ertook the boat, leaving the other two hanging in the
+woods, as we had now as much as we wanted.
+
+We got up the river very well, but quite slowly; and we landed, on the
+eleventh day, at the place the load was to be delivered at. They here
+gave me their skiff, and myself and a young man by the name of Flavius
+Harris, who had determined to go and live with me, cut out down the
+river for my cabin, which we reached safely enough.
+
+We turned in and cleared a field, and planted our corn; but it was so
+late in the spring, we had no time to make rails, and therefore we put
+no fence around our field. There was no stock, however, nor any thing
+else to disturb our corn, except the wild _varments_, and the old
+serpent himself, with a fence to help him, couldn't keep them out. I
+made corn enough to do me, and during that spring I killed ten bears,
+and a great abundance of deer. But in all this time, we saw the face of
+no white person in that country, except Mr. Owens' family, and a very
+few passengers, who went out there, looking at the country. Indians,
+though, were still plenty enough. Having laid by my crap, I went home,
+which was a distance of about a hundred and fifty miles; and when I got
+there, I was met by an order to attend a call-session of our
+Legislature. I attended it, and served out my time, and then returned,
+and took my family and what little plunder I had, and moved to where I
+had built my cabin, and made my crap.
+
+I gathered my corn, and then set out for my Fall's hunt. This was in the
+last of October, 1822. I found bear very plenty, and, indeed, all sorts
+of game and wild varments, except buffalo. There was none of them. I
+hunted on till Christmass, having supplied my family very well all along
+with wild meat, at which time my powder gave out; and I had none either
+to fire Christmass guns, which is very common in that country, or to
+hunt with. I had a brother-in-law who had now moved out and settled
+about six miles west of me, on the opposite side of Rutherford's fork of
+the Obion river, and he had brought me a keg of powder, but I had never
+gotten it home. There had just been another of Noah's freshes, and the
+low grounds were flooded all over with water. I know'd the stream was at
+least a mile wide which I would have to cross, as the water was from
+hill to hill, and yet I determined to go on over in some way or other,
+so as to get my powder. I told this to my wife, and she immediately
+opposed it with all her might. I still insisted, telling her we had no
+powder for Christmass, and, worse than all, we were out of meat. She
+said, we had as well starve as for me to freeze to death or to get
+drowned, and one or the other was certain if I attempted to go.
+
+But I didn't believe the half of this; and so I took my woolen wrappers,
+and a pair of mockasins, and put them on, and tied up some dry clothes
+and a pair of shoes and stockings, and started. But I didn't before know
+how much any body could suffer and not die. This, and some of my other
+experiments in water, learned me something about it, and I therefore
+relate them.
+
+The snow was about four inches deep when I started; and when I got to
+the water, which was only about a quarter of a mile off, it look'd like
+an ocean. I put in, and waded on till I come to the channel, where I
+crossed that on a high log. I then took water again, having my gun and
+all my hunting tools along, and waded till I came to a deep slough, that
+was wider than the river itself. I had crossed it often on a log; but,
+behold, when I got there, no log was to be seen. I knowed of an island
+in the slough, and a sapling stood on it close to the side of that log,
+which was now entirely under water. I knowed further, that the water was
+about eight or ten feet deep under the log, and I judged it to be about
+three feet deep over it. After studying a little what I should do, I
+determined to cut a forked sapling, which stood near me, so as to lodge
+it against the one that stood on the island, in which I succeeded very
+well. I then cut me a pole, and crawled along on my sapling till I got
+to the one it was lodged against, which was about six feet above the
+water. I then felt about with my pole till I found the log, which was
+just about as deep under the water as I had judged. I then crawled back
+and got my gun, which I had left at the stump of the sapling I had cut,
+and again made my way to the place of lodgement, and then climb'd down
+the other sapling so as to get on the log. I then felt my way along with
+my feet, in the water, about waist deep, but it was a mighty ticklish
+business. However, I got over, and by this time I had very little
+feeling in my feet and legs, as I had been all the time in the water,
+except what time I was crossing the high log over the river, and
+climbing my lodged sapling.
+
+I went but a short distance before I came to another slough, over which
+there was a log, but it was floating on the water. I thought I could
+walk it, and so I mounted on it; but when I had got about the middle of
+the deep water, somehow or somehow else, it turned over, and in I went
+up to my head I waded out of this deep water, and went ahead till I came
+to the high-land, where I stop'd to pull off my wet clothes, and put on
+the others, which I had held up with my gun, above the water, when I
+fell in. I got them on, but my flesh had no feeling in it, I was so
+cold. I tied up the wet ones, and hung them up in a bush. I now thought
+I would run, so as to warm myself a little, but I couldn't raise a trot
+for some time; indeed, I couldn't step more than half the length of my
+foot. After a while I got better, and went on five miles to the house of
+my brother-in-law, having not even smelt fire from the time I started. I
+got there late in the evening, and he was much astonished at seeing me
+at such a time. I staid all night, and the next morning was most
+piercing cold, and so they persuaded me not to go home that day. I
+agreed, and turned out and killed him two deer; but the weather still
+got worse and colder, instead of better. I staid that night, and in the
+morning they still insisted I couldn't get home. I knowed the water
+would be frozen over, but not hard enough to bear me, and so I agreed to
+stay that day. I went out hunting again, and pursued a big _he-bear_ all
+day, but didn't kill him. The next morning was bitter cold, but I knowed
+my family was without meat, and I determined to get home to them, or
+die a-trying.
+
+I took my keg of powder, and all my hunting tools, and cut out. When I
+got to the water, it was a sheet of ice as far as I could see. I put on
+to it, but hadn't got far before it broke through with me; and so I took
+out my tomahawk, and broke my way along before me for a considerable
+distance. At last I got to where the ice would bear me for a short
+distance, and I mounted on it, and went ahead; but it soon broke in
+again, and I had to wade on till I came to my floating log. I found it
+so tight this time, that I know'd it couldn't give me another fall, as
+it was frozen in with the ice. I crossed over it without much
+difficulty, and worked along till I got to my lodged sapling, and my log
+under the water. The swiftness of the current prevented the water from
+freezing over it, and so I had to wade, just as I did when I crossed it
+before. When I got to my sapling, I left my gun and climbed out with my
+powder keg first, and then went back and got my gun. By this time I was
+nearly frozen to death, but I saw all along before me, where the ice had
+been fresh broke, and I thought it must be a bear straggling about in
+the water. I, therefore, fresh primed my gun, and, cold as I was, I was
+determined to make war on him, if we met. But I followed the trail till
+it led me home, and I then found it had been made by my young man that
+lived with me, who had been sent by my distressed wife to see, if he
+could, what had become of me, for they all believed that I was dead.
+When I got home I was'nt quite dead, but mighty nigh it; but I had my
+powder, and that was what I went for.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XII.
+
+
+That night there fell a heavy rain, and it turned to a sleet. In the
+morning all hands turned out hunting. My young man, and a brother-in-law
+who had lately settled close by me, went down the river to hunt for
+turkeys; but I was for larger game. I told them, I had dreamed the night
+before of having a hard fight with a big black nigger, and I knowed it
+was a sign that I was to have a battle with a bear; for in a bear
+country, I never know'd such a dream to fail. So I started to go up
+above the harricane, determined to have a bear. I had two pretty good
+dogs, and an old hound, all of which I took along. I had gone about six
+miles up the river, and it was then about four miles across to the main
+Obion; so I determined to strike across to that, as I had found nothing
+yet to kill. I got on to the river, and turned down it; but the sleet
+was still getting worse and worse. The bushes were all bent down, and
+locked together with ice, so that it was almost impossible to get
+along. In a little time my dogs started a large gang of old turkey
+goblers, and I killed two of them, of the biggest sort. I shouldered
+them up, and moved on, until I got through the harricane, when I was so
+tired that I laid my goblers down to rest, as they were confounded
+heavy, and I was mighty tired. While I was resting, my old hound went to
+a log, and smelt it awhile, and then raised his eyes toward the sky, and
+cried out. Away he went, and my other dogs with him, and I shouldered up
+my turkeys again, and followed on as hard as I could drive. They were
+soon out of sight, and in a very little time I heard them begin to bark.
+When I got to them, they were barking up a tree, but there was no game
+there. I concluded it had been a turkey, and that it had flew away.
+
+When they saw me coming, away they went again; and, after a little time,
+began to bark as before. When I got near them, I found they were barking
+up the wrong tree again, as there was no game there. They served me in
+this way three or four times, until I was so infernal mad, that I
+determined, if I could get near enough, to shoot the old hound at least.
+With this intention I pushed on the harder, till I came to the edge of
+an open parara, and looking on before my dogs, I saw in and about the
+biggest bear that ever was seen in America. He looked, at the distance
+he was from me, like a large black bull. My dogs were afraid to attack
+him, and that was the reason they had stop'd so often, that I might
+overtake them. They were now almost up with him, and I took my goblers
+from my back and hung them up in a sapling, and broke like a quarter
+horse after my bear, for the sight of him had put new springs in me. I
+soon got near to them, but they were just getting into a roaring
+thicket, and so I couldn't run through it, but had to pick my way along,
+and had close work even at that.
+
+In a little time I saw the bear climbing up a large black oak-tree, and
+I crawled on till I got within about eighty yards of him. He was setting
+with his breast to me; and so I put fresh priming in my gun, and fired
+at him. At this he raised one of his paws and snorted loudly. I loaded
+again as quick as I could, and fired as near the same place in his
+breast as possible. At the crack of my gun here he came tumbling down;
+and the moment he touched the ground, I heard one of my best dogs cry
+out. I took my tomahawk in one hand, and my big butcher-knife in the
+other, and run up within four or five paces of him, at which he let my
+dog go, and fixed his eyes on me. I got back in all sorts of a hurry,
+for I know'd if he got hold of me, he would hug me altogether too close
+for comfort. I went to my gun and hastily loaded her again, and shot him
+the third time, which killed him good.
+
+I now began to think about getting him home, but I didn't know how far
+it was. So I left him and started; and in order to find him again, I
+would blaze a sapling every little distance, which would show me the way
+back. I continued this till I got within about a mile of home, for there
+I know'd very well where I was, and that I could easily find the way
+back to my blazes. When I got home, I took my brother-in-law, and my
+young man, and four horses, and went back. We got there just before
+dark, and struck up a fire, and commenced butchering my bear. It was
+some time in the night before we finished it; and I can assert, on my
+honour, that I believe he would have weighed six hundred pounds. It was
+the second largest I ever saw. I killed one, a few years after, that
+weighed six hundred and seventeen pounds. I now felt fully compensated
+for my sufferings in going after my powder; and well satisfied that a
+dog might sometimes be doing a good business, even when he seemed to be
+_barking up the wrong tree_. We got our meat home, and I had the
+pleasure to know that we now had plenty, and that of the best; and I
+continued through the winter to supply my family abundantly with
+bear-meat and venison from the woods.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIII.
+
+
+I had on hand a great many skins, and so, in the month of February, I
+packed a horse with them, and taking my eldest son along with me, cut
+out for a little town called Jackson, situated about forty miles off. We
+got there well enough, and I sold my skins, and bought me some coffee,
+and sugar, powder, lead, and salt. I packed them all up in readiness for
+a start, which I intended to make early the next morning. Morning came,
+but I concluded, before I started, I would go and take a horn with some
+of my old fellow-soldiers that I had met with at Jackson.
+
+I did so; and while we were engaged in this, I met with three candidates
+for the Legislature; a Doctor Butler, who was, by marriage, a nephew to
+General Jackson, a Major Lynn, and a Mr. McEver, all first-rate men. We
+all took a horn together, and some person present said to me, "Crockett,
+you must offer for the Legislature." I told him I lived at least forty
+miles from any white settlement, and had no thought of becoming a
+candidate at that time. So we all parted, and I and my little boy went
+on home.
+
+It was about a week or two after this, that a man came to my house, and
+told me I was a candidate. I told him not so. But he took out a
+newspaper from his pocket, and show'd me where I was announced. I said
+to my wife that this was all a burlesque on me, but I was determined to
+make it cost the man who had put it there at least the value of the
+printing, and of the fun he wanted at my expense. So I hired a young man
+to work in my place on my farm, and turned out myself electioneering. I
+hadn't been out long, before I found the people began to talk very much
+about the bear hunter, the man from the cane; and the three gentlemen,
+who I have already named, soon found it necessary to enter into an
+agreement to have a sort of caucus at their March court, to determine
+which of them was the strongest, and the other two was to withdraw and
+support him. As the court came on, each one of them spread himself, to
+secure the nomination; but it fell on Dr. Butler, and the rest backed
+out. The doctor was a clever fellow, and I have often said he was the
+most talented man I ever run against for any office. His being related
+to Gen'l. Jackson also helped him on very much; but I was in for it, and
+I was determined to push ahead and go through, or stick. Their meeting
+was held in Madison county, which was the strongest in the
+representative district, which was composed of eleven counties, and they
+seemed bent on having the member from there.
+
+At this time Col. Alexander was a candidate for Congress, and attending
+one of his public meetings one day, I walked to where he was treating
+the people, and he gave me an introduction to several of his
+acquaintances, and informed them that I was out electioneering. In a
+little time my competitor, Doctor Butler, came along; he passed by
+without noticing me, and I suppose, indeed, he did not recognise me. But
+I hailed him, as I was for all sorts of fun; and when he turned to me, I
+said to him, "Well, doctor, I suppose they have weighed you out to me;
+but I should like to know why they fixed your election for _March_
+instead of _August_? This is," said I, "a branfire new way of doing
+business, if a caucus is to make a representative for the people!" He
+now discovered who I was, and cried out, "D--n it, Crockett, is that
+you?"--"Be sure it is," said I, "but I don't want it understood that I
+have come electioneering. I have just crept out of the cane, to see
+what discoveries I could make among the white folks." I told him that
+when I set out electioneering, I would go prepared to put every man on
+as good footing when I left him as I found him on. I would therefore
+have me a large buckskin hunting-shirt made, with a couple of pockets
+holding about a peck each; and that in one I would carry a great big
+twist of tobacco, and in the other my bottle of liquor; for I knowed
+when I met a man and offered him a dram, he would throw out his quid of
+tobacco to take one, and after he had taken his horn, I would out with
+my twist and give him another chaw. And in this way he would not be
+worse off than when I found him; and I would be sure to leave him in a
+first-rate good humour. He said I could beat him electioneering all
+hollow. I told him I would give him better evidence of that before
+August, notwithstanding he had many advantages over me, and particularly
+in the way of money; but I told him that I would go on the products of
+the country; that I had industrious children, and the best of coon dogs,
+and they would hunt every night till midnight to support my election;
+and when the coon fur wa'n't good, I would myself go a wolfing, and
+shoot down a wolf, and skin his head, and his scalp would be good to me
+for three dollars, in our state treasury money; and in this way I would
+get along on the big string. He stood like he was both amused and
+astonished, and the whole crowd was in a roar of laughter. From this
+place I returned home, leaving the people in a first-rate way; and I was
+sure I would do a good business among them. At any rate, I was
+determined to stand up to my lick-log, salt or no salt.
+
+In a short time there came out two other candidates, a Mr. Shaw and a
+Mr. Brown. We all ran the race through; and when the election was over,
+it turned out that I beat them all by a majority of two hundred and
+forty-seven votes, and was again returned as a member of the Legislature
+from a new region of the country, without losing a session. This
+reminded me of the old saying--"A fool for luck, and a poor man for
+children."
+
+I now served two years in that body from my new district, which was the
+years 1823 and '24. At the session of 1823, I had a small trial of my
+independence, and whether I would forsake principle for party, or for
+the purpose of following after big men.
+
+The term of Col. John Williams had expired, who was a senator in
+Congress from the state of Tennessee. He was a candidate for another
+election, and was opposed by Pleasant M. Miller, Esq., who, it was
+believed, would not be able to beat the colonel. Some two or three
+others were spoken of, but it was at last concluded that the only man
+who could beat him was the present "government," General Jackson. So, a
+few days before the election was to come on, he was sent for to come and
+run for the senate. He was then in nomination for the presidency; but
+sure enough he came, and did run as the opponent of Colonel Williams,
+and beat him too, but not by my vote. The vote was, for Jackson,
+_thirty-five_; for Williams, _twenty-five_. I thought the colonel had
+honestly discharged his duty, and even the mighty name of Jackson
+couldn't make me vote against him.
+
+But voting against the old chief was found a mighty up-hill business to
+all of them except myself. I never would, nor never did, acknowledge I
+had voted wrong; and I am more certain now that I was right than ever.
+
+I told the people it was the best vote I ever gave; that I had supported
+the public interest, and cleared my conscience in giving it, instead of
+gratifying the private ambition of a man.
+
+I let the people know as early as then, that I wouldn't take a collar
+around my neck with the letters engraved on it,
+
+              MY DOG.
+
+                    ANDREW JACKSON.
+
+
+During these two sessions of the Legislature, nothing else turned up
+which I think it worth while to mention; and, indeed, I am fearful that
+I am too particular about many small matters; but if so, my apology is,
+that I want the world to understand my true history, and how I worked
+along to rise from a cane-brake to my present station in life.
+
+Col. Alexander was the representative in Congress of the district I
+lived in, and his vote on the tariff law of 1824 gave a mighty heap of
+dissatisfaction to his people. They therefore began to talk pretty
+strong of running me for Congress against him. At last I was called on
+by a good many to be a candidate. I told the people that I couldn't
+stand that; it was a step above my knowledge, and I know'd nothing about
+Congress matters.
+
+However, I was obliged to agree to run, and myself and two other
+gentlemen came out. But Providence was a little against two of us this
+hunt, for it was the year that cotton brought twenty-five dollars a
+hundred; and so Colonel Alexander would get up and tell the people, it
+was all the good effect of this tariff law; that it had raised the price
+of their cotton, and that it would raise the price of every thing else
+they made to sell. I might as well have sung _salms_ over a dead horse,
+as to try to make the people believe otherwise; for they knowed their
+cotton had raised, sure enough, and if the colonel hadn't done it, they
+didn't know what had. So he rather made a mash of me this time, as he
+beat me exactly _two_ votes, as they counted the polls, though I have
+always believed that many other things had been as fairly done as that
+same count.
+
+He went on, and served out his term, and at the end of it cotton was
+down to _six_ or _eight_ dollars a hundred again; and I concluded I
+would try him once more, and see how it would go with cotton at the
+common price, and so I became a candidate.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIV.
+
+
+But the reader, I expect, would have no objection to know a little about
+my employment during the two years while my competitor was in Congress.
+In this space I had some pretty tuff times, and will relate some few
+things that happened to me. So here goes, as the boy said when he run by
+himself.
+
+In the fall of 1825, I concluded I would build two large boats, and load
+them with pipe staves for market. So I went down to the lake, which was
+about twenty-five miles from where I lived, and hired some hands to
+assist me, and went to work; some at boat building, and others to
+getting staves. I worked on with my hands till the bears got fat, and
+then I turned out to hunting, to lay in a supply of meat. I soon killed
+and salted down as many as were necessary for my family; but about this
+time one of my old neighbours, who had settled down on the lake about
+twenty-five miles from me, came to my house and told me he wanted me to
+go down and kill some bears about in his parts. He said they were
+extremely fat, and very plenty. I know'd that when they were fat, they
+were easily taken, for a fat bear can't run fast or long. But I asked a
+bear no favours, no way, further than civility, for I now had _eight_
+large dogs, and as fierce as painters; so that a bear stood no chance at
+all to get away from them. So I went home with him, and then went on
+down towards the Mississippi, and commenced hunting.
+
+We were out two weeks, and in that time killed fifteen bears. Having now
+supplied my friend with plenty of meat, I engaged occasionally again
+with my hands in our boat building, and getting staves. But I at length
+couldn't stand it any longer without another hunt. So I concluded to
+take my little son, and cross over the lake, and take a hunt there. We
+got over, and that evening turned out and killed three bears, in little
+or no time. The next morning we drove up four forks, and made a sort of
+scaffold, on which we salted up our meat, so as to have it out of the
+reach of the wolves, for as soon as we would leave our camp, they would
+take possession. We had just eat our breakfast, when a company of
+hunters came to our camp, who had fourteen dogs, but all so poor, that
+when they would bark they would almost have to lean up against a tree
+and take a rest. I told them their dogs couldn't run in smell of a bear,
+and they had better stay at my camp, and feed them on the bones I had
+cut out of my meat. I left them there, and cut out; but I hadn't gone
+far, when my dogs took a first-rate start after a very large fat old
+_he-bear_, which run right plump towards my camp. I pursued on, but my
+other hunters had heard my dogs coming, and met them, and killed the
+bear before I got up with him. I gave him to them, and cut out again for
+a creek called Big Clover, which wa'n't very far off. Just as I got
+there, and was entering a cane brake, my dogs all broke and went ahead,
+and, in a little time, they raised a fuss in the cane, and seemed to be
+going every way. I listened a while, and found my dogs was in two
+companies, and that both was in a snorting fight. I sent my little son
+to one, and I broke for t'other. I got to mine first, and found my dogs
+had a two-year-old bear down, a-wooling away on him; so I just took out
+my big butcher, and went up and slap'd it into him, and killed him
+without shooting. There was five of the dogs in my company. In a short
+time, I heard my little son fire at his bear; when I went to him he had
+killed it too. He had two dogs in his team. Just at this moment we
+heard my other dog barking a short distance off, and all the rest
+immediately broke to him. We pushed on too, and when we got there, we
+found he had still a larger bear than either of them we had killed,
+treed by himself. We killed that one also, which made three we had
+killed in less than half an hour. We turned in and butchered them, and
+then started to hunt for water, and a good place to camp. But we had no
+sooner started, than our dogs took a start after another one, and away
+they went like a thunder-gust, and was out of hearing in a minute. We
+followed the way they had gone for some time, but at length we gave up
+the hope of finding them, and turned back. As we were going back, I came
+to where a poor fellow was grubbing, and he looked like the very picture
+of hard times. I asked him what he was doing away there in the woods by
+himself? He said he was grubbing for a man who intended to settle there;
+and the reason why he did it was, that he had no meat for his family,
+and he was working for a little.
+
+I was mighty sorry for the poor fellow, for it was not only a hard, but
+a very slow way to get meat for a hungry family; so I told him if he
+would go with me, I would give him more meat than he could get by
+grubbing in a month. I intended to supply him with meat, and also to get
+him to assist my little boy in packing in and salting up my bears. He
+had never seen a bear killed in his life. I told him I had six killed
+then, and my dogs were hard after another. He went off to his little
+cabin, which was a short distance in the brush, and his wife was very
+anxious he should go with me. So we started and went to where I had left
+my three bears, and made a camp. We then gathered my meat and salted,
+and scaffled it, as I had done the other. Night now came on, but no word
+from my dogs yet. I afterwards found they had treed the bear about five
+miles off, near to a man's house, and had barked at it the whole
+enduring night. Poor fellows! many a time they looked for me, and
+wondered why I didn't come, for they knowed there was no mistake in me,
+and I know'd they were as good as ever fluttered. In the morning, as
+soon as it was light enough to see, the man took his gun and went to
+them, and shot the bear, and killed it. My dogs, however, wouldn't have
+any thing to say to this stranger; so they left him, and came early in
+the morning back to me.
+
+We got our breakfast, and cut out again; and we killed four large and
+very fat bears that day. We hunted out the week, and in that time we
+killed seventeen, all of them first-rate. When we closed our hunt, I
+gave the man over a thousand weight of fine fat bear-meat, which pleased
+him mightily, and made him feel as rich as a Jew. I saw him the next
+fall, and he told me he had plenty of meat to do him the whole year from
+his week's hunt. My son and me now went home. This was the week between
+Christmass and New-year that we made this hunt.
+
+When I got home, one of my neighbours was out of meat, and wanted me to
+go back, and let him go with me, to take another hunt. I couldn't
+refuse; but I told him I was afraid the bear had taken to house by that
+time, for after they get very fat in the fall and early part of the
+winter, they go into their holes, in large hollow trees, or into hollow
+logs, or their cane-houses, or the harricanes; and lie there till
+spring, like frozen snakes. And one thing about this will seem mighty
+strange to many people. From about the first of January to about the
+last of April, these varments lie in their holes altogether. In all that
+time they have no food to eat; and yet when they come out, they are not
+an ounce lighter than when they went to house. I don't know the cause of
+this, and still I know it is a fact; and I leave it for others who have
+more learning than myself to account for it. They have not a particle of
+food with them, but they just lie and suck the bottom of their paw all
+the time. I have killed many of them in their trees, which enables me to
+speak positively on this subject. However, my neighbour, whose name was
+McDaniel, and my little son and me, went on down to the lake to my
+second camp, where I had killed my seventeen bears the week before, and
+turned out to hunting. But we hunted hard all day without getting a
+single start. We had carried but little provisions with us, and the next
+morning was entirely out of meat. I sent my son about three miles off,
+to the house of an old friend, to get some. The old gentleman was much
+pleased to hear I was hunting in those parts, for the year before the
+bears had killed a great many of his hogs. He was that day killing his
+bacon hogs, and so he gave my son some meat, and sent word to me that I
+must come in to his house that evening, that he would have plenty of
+feed for my dogs, and some accommodations for ourselves; but before my
+son got back, we had gone out hunting, and in a large cane brake my dogs
+found a big bear in a cane-house, which he had fixed for his
+winter-quarters, as they sometimes do.
+
+When my lead dog found him, and raised the yell, all the rest broke to
+him, but none of them entered his house until we got up. I encouraged my
+dogs, and they knowed me so well, that I could have made them seize the
+old serpent himself, with all his horns and heads, and cloven foot and
+ugliness into the bargain, if he would only have come to light, so that
+they could have seen him. They bulged in, and in an instant the bear
+followed them out, and I told my friend to shoot him, as he was mighty
+wrathy to kill a bear. He did so, and killed him prime. We carried him
+to our camp, by which time my son had returned; and after we got our
+dinners we packed up, and cut for the house of my old friend, whose name
+was Davidson.
+
+We got there, and staid with him that night; and the next morning,
+having salted up our meat, we left it with him, and started to take a
+hunt between the Obion lake and the Red-foot lake; as there had been a
+dreadful harricane, which passed between them, and I was sure there must
+be a heap of bears in the fallen timber. We had gone about five miles
+without seeing any sign at all; but at length we got on some high cany
+ridges, and, as we rode along, I saw a hole in a large black oak, and on
+examining more closely, I discovered that a bear had clomb the tree. I
+could see his tracks going up, but none coming down, and so I was sure
+he was in there. A person who is acquainted with bear-hunting, can tell
+easy enough when the varment is in the hollow; for as they go up they
+don't slip a bit, but as they come down they make long scratches with
+their nails.
+
+My friend was a little ahead of me, but I called him back, and told him
+there was a bear in that tree, and I must have him out. So we lit from
+our horses, and I found a small tree which I thought I could fall so as
+to lodge against my bear tree, and we fell to work chopping it with our
+tomahawks. I intended, when we lodged the tree against the other, to let
+my little son go up, and look into the hole, for he could climb like a
+squirrel. We had chop'd on a little time and stop'd to rest, when I
+heard my dogs barking mighty severe at some distance from us, and I told
+my friend I knowed they had a bear; for it is the nature of a dog, when
+he finds you are hunting bears, to hunt for nothing else; he becomes
+fond of the meat, and considers other game as "not worth a notice," as
+old Johnson said of the devil.
+
+We concluded to leave our tree a bit, and went to my dogs, and when we
+got there, sure enough they had an eternal great big fat bear up a
+tree, just ready for shooting. My friend again petitioned me for
+liberty to shoot this one also. I had a little rather not, as the bear
+was so big, but I couldn't refuse; and so he blazed away, and down came
+the old fellow like some great log had fell. I now missed one of my
+dogs, the same that I before spoke of as having treed the bear by
+himself sometime before, when I had started the three in the cane break.
+I told my friend that my missing dog had a bear somewhere, just as sure
+as fate; so I left them to butcher the one we had just killed, and I
+went up on a piece of high ground to listen for my dog. I heard him
+barking with all his might some distance off, and I pushed ahead for
+him. My other dogs hearing him broke to him, and when I got there, sure
+enough again he had another bear ready treed; if he hadn't, I wish I may
+be shot. I fired on him, and brought him down; and then went back, and
+help'd finish butchering the one at which I had left my friend. We then
+packed both to our tree where we had left my boy. By this time, the
+little fellow had cut the tree down that we intended to lodge, but it
+fell the wrong way; he had then feather'd in on the big tree, to cut
+that, and had found that it was nothing but a shell on the outside, and
+all doted in the middle, as too many of our big men are in these days,
+having only an outside appearance. My friend and my son cut away on it,
+and I went off about a hundred yards with my dogs to keep them from
+running under the tree when it should fall. On looking back at the hole,
+I saw the bear's head out of it, looking down at them as they were
+cutting. I hollered to them to look up, and they did so; and McDaniel
+catched up his gun, but by this time the bear was out, and coming down
+the tree. He fired at it, and as soon as it touch'd ground the dogs were
+all round it, and they had a roll-and-tumble fight to the foot of the
+hill, where they stop'd him. I ran up, and putting my gun against the
+bear, fired and killed him. We now had three, and so we made our
+scaffold and salted them up.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XV.
+
+
+In the morning I left my son at the camp, and we started on towards the
+harricane; and when we had went about a mile, we started a very large
+bear, but we got along mighty slow on account of the cracks in the earth
+occasioned by the earthquakes. We, however, made out to keep in hearing
+of the dogs for about three miles, and then we come to the harricane.
+Here we had to quit our horses, as old Nick himself couldn't have got
+through it without sneaking it along in the form that he put on, to make
+a fool of our old grandmother Eve. By this time several of my dogs had
+got tired and come back; but we went ahead on foot for some little time
+in the harricane, when we met a bear coming straight to us, and not more
+than twenty or thirty yards off. I started my tired dogs after him, and
+McDaniel pursued them, and I went on to where my other dogs were. I had
+seen the track of the bear they were after, and I knowed he was a
+screamer. I followed on to about the middle of the harricane; but my
+dogs pursued him so close, that they made him climb an old stump about
+twenty feet high. I got in shooting distance of him and fired, but I was
+all over in such a flutter from fatigue and running, that I couldn't
+hold steady; but, however, I broke his shoulder, and he fell. I run up
+and loaded my gun as quick as possible, and shot him again and killed
+him. When I went to take out my knife to butcher him, I found I had lost
+it in coming through the harricane. The vines and briers was so thick
+that I would sometimes have to get down and crawl like a varment to get
+through at all; and a vine had, as I supposed, caught in the handle and
+pulled it out. While I was standing and studying what to do, my friend
+came to me. He had followed my trail through the harricane, and had
+found my knife, which was mighty good news to me; as a hunter hates the
+worst in the world to lose a good dog, or any part of his hunting-tools.
+I now left McDaniel to butcher the bear, and I went after our horses,
+and brought them as near as the nature of case would allow. I then took
+our bags, and went back to where he was; and when we had skin'd the
+bear, we fleeced off the fat and carried it to our horses at several
+loads. We then packed it up on our horses, and had a heavy pack of it
+on each one. We now started and went on till about sunset, when I
+concluded we must be near our camp; so I hollered and my son answered
+me, and we moved on in the direction to the camp. We had gone but a
+little way when I heard my dogs make a warm start again; and I jumped
+down from my horse and gave him up to my friend, and told him I would
+follow them. He went on to the camp, and I went ahead after my dogs with
+all my might for a considerable distance, till at last night came on.
+The woods were very rough and hilly, and all covered over with cane.
+
+I now was compel'd to move on more slowly; and was frequently falling
+over logs, and into the cracks made by the earthquakes, so that I was
+very much afraid I would break my gun. However I went on about three
+miles, when I came to a good big creek, which I waded. It was very cold,
+and the creek was about knee-deep; but I felt no great inconvenience
+from it just then, as I was all over wet with sweat from running, and I
+felt hot enough. After I got over this creek and out of the cane, which
+was very thick on all our creeks, I listened for my dogs. I found they
+had either treed or brought the bear to a stop, as they continued
+barking in the same place. I pushed on as near in the direction to the
+noise as I could, till I found the hill was too steep for me to climb,
+and so I backed and went down the creek some distance till I came to a
+hollow, and then took up that, till I come to a place where I could
+climb up the hill. It was mighty dark, and was difficult to see my way
+or any thing else. When I got up the hill, I found I had passed the
+dogs; and so I turned and went to them. I found, when I got there, they
+had treed the bear in a large forked poplar, and it was setting in the
+fork.
+
+I could see the lump, but not plain enough to shoot with any certainty,
+as there was no moonlight; and so I set in to hunting for some dry brush
+to make me a light; but I could find none, though I could find that the
+ground was torn mightily to pieces by the cracks.
+
+At last I thought I could shoot by guess, and kill him; so I pointed as
+near the lump as I could, and fired away. But the bear didn't come he
+only clomb up higher, and got out on a limb, which helped me to see him
+better. I now loaded up again and fired, but this time he didn't move at
+all. I commenced loading for a third fire, but the first thing I knowed,
+the bear was down among my dogs, and they were fighting all around me.
+I had my big butcher in my belt, and I had a pair of dressed buckskin
+breeches on. So I took out my knife, and stood, determined, if he should
+get hold of me, to defend myself in the best way I could. I stood there
+for some time, and could now and then see a white dog I had, but the
+rest of them, and the bear, which were dark coloured, I couldn't see at
+all, it was so miserable dark. They still fought around me, and
+sometimes within three feet of me; but, at last, the bear got down into
+one of the cracks, that the earthquakes had made in the ground, about
+four feet deep, and I could tell the biting end of him by the hollering
+of my dogs. So I took my gun and pushed the muzzle of it about, till I
+thought I had it against the main part of his body, and fired; but it
+happened to be only the fleshy part of his foreleg. With this, he jumped
+out of the crack, and he and the dogs had another hard fight around me,
+as before. At last, however, they forced him back into the crack again,
+as he was when I had shot.
+
+I had laid down my gun in the dark, and I now began to hunt for it; and,
+while hunting, I got hold of a pole, and I concluded I would punch him
+awhile with that. I did so, and when I would punch him, the dogs would
+jump in on him, when he would bite them badly, and they would jump out
+again. I concluded, as he would take punching so patiently, it might be
+that he would lie still enough for me to get down in the crack, and feel
+slowly along till I could find the right place to give him a dig with my
+butcher. So I got down, and my dogs got in before him and kept his head
+towards them, till I got along easily up to him; and placing my hand on
+his rump, felt for his shoulder, just behind which I intended to stick
+him. I made a lounge with my long knife, and fortunately stuck him right
+through the heart; at which he just sank down, and I crawled out in a
+hurry. In a little time my dogs all come out too, and seemed satisfied,
+which was the way they always had of telling me that they had finished
+him.
+
+I suffered very much that night with cold, as my leather breeches, and
+every thing else I had on, was wet and frozen. But I managed to get my
+bear out of this crack after several hard trials, and so I butchered
+him, and laid down to try to sleep. But my fire was very bad, and I
+couldn't find any thing that would burn well to make it any better; and
+I concluded I should freeze, if I didn't warm myself in some way by
+exercise. So I got up, and hollered a while, and then I would just jump
+up and down with all my might, and throw myself into all sorts of
+motions. But all this wouldn't do; for my blood was now getting cold,
+and the chills coming all over me. I was so tired, too, that I could
+hardly walk; but I thought I would do the best I could to save my life,
+and then, if I died, nobody would be to blame. So I went to a tree about
+two feet through, and not a limb on it for thirty feet, and I would
+climb up it to the limbs, and then lock my arms together around it, and
+slide down to the bottom again. This would make the insides of my legs
+and arms feel mighty warm and good. I continued this till daylight in
+the morning, and how often I clomb up my tree and slid down I don't
+know, but I reckon at least a hundred times.
+
+In the morning I got my bear hung up so as to be safe, and then set out
+to hunt for my camp. I found it after a while, and McDaniel and my son
+were very much rejoiced to see me get back, for they were about to give
+me up for lost. We got our breakfasts, and then secured our meat by
+building a high scaffold, and covering it over. We had no fear of its
+spoiling, for the weather was so cold that it couldn't.
+
+We now started after my other bear, which had caused me so much trouble
+and suffering; and before we got him, we got a start after another, and
+took him also. We went on to the creek I had crossed the night before
+and camped, and then went to where my bear was, that I had killed in the
+crack. When we examined the place, McDaniel said he wouldn't have gone
+into it, as I did, for all the bears in the woods.
+
+We took the meat down to our camp and salted it, and also the last one
+we had killed; intending, in the morning, to make a hunt in the
+harricane again.
+
+We prepared for resting that night, and I can assure the reader I was in
+need of it. We had laid down by our fire, and about ten o'clock there
+came a most terrible earthquake, which shook the earth so, that we were
+rocked about like we had been in a cradle. We were very much alarmed;
+for though we were accustomed to feel earthquakes, we were now right in
+the region which had been torn to pieces by them in 1812, and we thought
+it might take a notion and swallow us up, like the big fish did Jonah.
+
+In the morning we packed up and moved to the harricane, where we made
+another camp, and turned out that evening and killed a very large bear,
+which made _eight_ we had now killed in this hunt.
+
+The next morning we entered the harricane again, and in little or no
+time my dogs were in full cry. We pursued them, and soon came to a thick
+cane-brake, in which they had stop'd their bear. We got up close to him,
+as the cane was so thick that we couldn't see more than a few feet. Here
+I made my friend hold the cane a little open with his gun till I shot
+the bear, which was a mighty large one. I killed him dead in his tracks.
+We got him out and butchered him, and in a little time started another
+and killed him, which now made _ten_ we had killed; and we know'd we
+couldn't pack any more home, as we had only five horses along; therefore
+we returned to the camp and salted up all our meat, to be ready for a
+start homeward next morning.
+
+The morning came, and we packed our horses with the meat, and had as
+much as they could possibly carry, and sure enough cut out for home. It
+was about thirty miles, and we reached home the second day. I had now
+accommodated my neighbour with meat enough to do him, and had killed in
+all, up to that time, fifty-eight bears, during the fall and winter.
+
+As soon as the time come for them to quit their houses and come out
+again in the spring, I took a notion to hunt a little more, and in
+about one month I killed forty-seven more, which made one hundred and
+five bears I had killed in less than one year from that time.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVI.
+
+
+Having now closed my hunting for that winter, I returned to my hands,
+who were engaged about my boats and staves, and made ready for a trip
+down the river. I had two boats and about thirty thousand staves, and so
+I loaded with them, and set out for New Orleans. I got out of the Obion
+river, in which I had loaded my boats, very well; but when I got into
+the Mississippi, I found all my hands were bad scared, and in fact I
+believe I was scared a little the worst of any; for I had never been
+down the river, and I soon discovered that my pilot was as ignorant of
+the business as myself. I hadn't gone far before I determined to lash
+the two boats together; we did so, but it made them so heavy and
+obstinate, that it was next akin to impossible to do any thing at all
+with them, or to guide them right in the river.
+
+That evening we fell in company with some Ohio boats; and about night we
+tried to land, but we could not. The Ohio men hollered to us to go on
+and run all night. We took their advice, though we had a good deal
+rather not; but we couldn't do any other way. In a short distance we got
+into what is called the "_Devil's Elbow_;" and if any place in the wide
+creation has its own proper name, I thought it was this. Here we had
+about the hardest work that I ever was engaged in, in my life, to keep
+out of danger; and even then we were in it all the while. We twice
+attempted to land at Wood-yards, which we could see, but couldn't reach.
+
+The people would run out with lights, and try to instruct us how to get
+to shore; but all in vain. Our boats were so heavy that we couldn't take
+them much any way, except the way they wanted to go, and just the way
+the current would carry them. At last we quit trying to land, and
+concluded just to go ahead as well as we could, for we found we couldn't
+do any better. Some time in the night I was down in the cabin of one of
+the boats, sitting by the fire, thinking on what a hobble we had got
+into; and how much better bear-hunting was on hard land, than floating
+along on the water, when a fellow had to go ahead whether he was exactly
+willing or not.
+
+The hatchway into the cabin came slap down, right through the top of the
+boat; and it was the only way out except a small hole in the side,
+which we had used for putting our arms through to dip up water before we
+lashed the boats together.
+
+We were now floating sideways, and the boat I was in was the hindmost as
+we went. All at once I heard the hands begin to run over the top of the
+boat in great confusion, and pull with all their might; and the first
+thing I know'd after this we went broadside full tilt against the head
+of an island where a large raft of drift timber had lodged. The nature
+of such a place would be, as every body knows, to suck the boats down,
+and turn them right under this raft; and the uppermost boat would, of
+course, be suck'd down and go under first. As soon as we struck, I
+bulged for my hatchway, as the boat was turning under sure enough. But
+when I got to it, the water was pouring thro' in a current as large as
+the hole would let it, and as strong as the weight of the river could
+force it. I found I couldn't get out here, for the boat was now turned
+down in such a way, that it was steeper than a house-top. I now thought
+of the hole in the side, and made my way in a hurry for that. With
+difficulty I got to it, and when I got there, I found it was too small
+for me to get out by my own dower, and I began to think that I was in a
+worse box than ever. But I put my arms through and hollered as loud as I
+could roar, as the boat I was in hadn't yet quite filled with water up
+to my head, and the hands who were next to the raft, seeing my arms out,
+and hearing me holler, seized them, and began to pull. I told them I was
+sinking, and to pull my arms off, or force me through, for now I know'd
+well enough it was neck or nothing, come out or sink.
+
+By a violent effort they jerked me through; but I was in a pretty pickle
+when I got through. I had been sitting without any clothing over my
+shirt: this was torn off, and I was literally skin'd like a rabbit. I
+was, however, well pleased to get out in any way, even without shirt or
+hide; as before I could straighten myself on the boat next to the raft,
+the one they pull'd me out of went entirely under, and I have never seen
+it any more to this day. We all escaped on to the raft, where we were
+compelled to sit all night, about a mile from land on either side. Four
+of my company were bareheaded, and three bare-footed; and of that number
+I was one. I reckon I looked like a pretty cracklin ever to get to
+Congress!!!
+
+We had now lost all our loading; and every particle of our clothing,
+except what little we had on; but over all this, while I was setting
+there, in the night, floating about on the drift, I felt happier and
+better off than I ever had in my life before, for I had just made such a
+marvellous escape, that I had forgot almost every thing else in that;
+and so I felt prime.
+
+In the morning about sunrise, we saw a boat coming down, and we hailed
+her. They sent a large skiff, and took us all on board, and carried us
+down as far as Memphis. Here I met with a friend, that I never can
+forget as long as I am able to go ahead at any thing; it was a Major
+Winchester, a merchant of that place: he let us all have hats, and
+shoes, and some little money to go upon, and so we all parted.
+
+A young man and myself concluded to go on down to Natchez, to see if we
+could hear any thing of our boats; for we supposed they would float out
+from the raft, and keep on down the river. We got on a boat at Memphis,
+that was going down, and so cut out. Our largest boat, we were informed,
+had been seen about fifty miles below where we stove, and an attempt had
+been made to land her, but without success, as she was as hard-headed as
+ever.
+
+This was the last of my boats, and of my boating; for it went so badly
+with me, along at the first, that I hadn't much mind to try it any more.
+I now returned home again, and as the next August was the Congressional
+election, I began to turn my attention a little to that matter, as it
+was beginning to be talked of a good deal among the people.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVII.
+
+
+I have, heretofore, informed the reader that I had determined to run
+this race to see what effect _the price of cotton_ could have again on
+it. I now had Col. Alexander to run against once more, and also General
+William Arnold.
+
+I had difficulties enough to fight against this time, as every one will
+suppose; for I had no money, and a very bad prospect, so far as I
+know'd, of getting any to help me along. I had, however, a good friend,
+who sent for me to come and see him. I went, and he was good enough to
+offer me some money to help me out. I borrowed as much as I thought I
+needed at the start, and went ahead. My friend also had a good deal of
+business about over the district at the different courts; and if he now
+and then slip'd in a good word for me, it is nobody's business. We
+frequently met at different places, and, as he thought I needed, he
+would occasionally hand me a little more cash; so I was able to buy a
+little of "the _creature_," to put my friends in a good humour, as well
+as the other gentlemen, for they all treat in that country; not to get
+elected, of course--for that would be against the law; but just, as I
+before said, to make themselves and their friends feel their keeping a
+little.
+
+Nobody ever did know how I got money to get along on, till after the
+election was over, and I had beat my competitors twenty-seven hundred
+and forty-eight votes. Even the price of cotton couldn't save my friend
+Aleck this time. My rich friend, who had been so good to me in the way
+of money, now sent for me, and loaned me a hundred dollars, and told me
+to go ahead; that that amount would bear my expenses to Congress, and I
+must then shift for myself. I came on to Washington, and draw'd two
+hundred and fifty dollars, and purchased with it a check on the bank at
+Nashville, and enclosed it to my friend; and I may say, in truth, I sent
+this money with a mighty good will, for I reckon nobody in this world
+loves a friend better than me, or remembers a kindness longer.
+
+I have now given the close of the election, but I have skip'd entirely
+over the canvass, of which I will say a very few things in this place;
+as I know very well how to tell the truth, but not much about placing
+them in book order, so as to please critics.
+
+Col. Alexander was a very clever fellow, and principal surveyor at that
+time; so much for one of the men I had to run against. My other
+competitor was a major-general in the militia, and an attorney-general
+at the law, and quite a smart, clever man also; and so it will be seen I
+had war work as well as law trick, to stand up under. Taking both
+together, they make a pretty considerable of a load for any one man to
+carry. But for war claims, I consider myself behind no man except "the
+government," and mighty little, if any, behind him; but this the people
+will have to determine hereafter, as I reckon it won't do to quit the
+work of "reform and retrenchment" yet for a spell.
+
+But my two competitors seemed some little afraid of the influence of
+each other, but not to think me in their way at all. They, therefore,
+were generally working against each other, while I was going ahead for
+myself, and mixing among the people in the best way I could. I was as
+cunning as a little red fox, and wouldn't risk my tail in a "committal"
+trap.
+
+I found the sign was good, almost everywhere I went. On one occasion,
+while we were in the eastern counties of the district, it happened that
+we all had to make a speech, and it fell on me to make the first one. I
+did so after my manner, and it turned pretty much on the old saying, "A
+short horse is soon curried," as I spoke not very long. Colonel
+Alexander followed me, and then General Arnold come on.
+
+The general took much pains to reply to Alexander, but didn't so much as
+let on that there was any such candidate as myself at all. He had been
+speaking for a considerable time, when a large flock of guinea-fowls
+came very near to where he was, and set up the most unmerciful
+chattering that ever was heard, for they are a noisy little brute any
+way. They so confused the general, that he made a stop, and requested
+that they might be driven away. I let him finish his speech, and then
+walking up to him, said aloud, "Well, colonel, you are the first man I
+ever saw that understood the language of fowls." I told him that he had
+not had the politeness to name me in his speech, and that when my little
+friends, the guinea-fowls, had come up and began to holler "Crockett,
+Crockett, Crockett," he had been ungenerous enough to stop, and drive
+_them_ all away. This raised a universal shout among the people for me,
+and the general seemed mighty bad plagued. But he got more plagued than
+this at the polls in August, as I have stated before.
+
+This election was in 1827, and I can say, on my conscience, that I was,
+without disguise, the friend and supporter of General Jackson, upon his
+principles as he laid them down, and as "_I understood them_," before
+his election as president. During my two first sessions in Congress, Mr.
+Adams was president, and I worked along with what was called the Jackson
+party pretty well. I was re-elected to Congress, in 1829, by an
+overwhelming majority; and soon after the commencement of this second
+term, I saw, or thought I did, that it was expected of me that I was to
+bow to the name of Andrew Jackson, and follow him in all his motions,
+and mindings, and turnings, even at the expense of my conscience and
+judgment. Such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my
+principles. I know'd well enough, though, that if I didn't "hurra" for
+his name, the hue and cry was to be raised against me, and I was to be
+sacrificed, if possible. His famous, or rather I should say his
+in-_famous_, Indian bill was brought forward, and I opposed it from the
+purest motives in the world. Several of my colleagues got around me, and
+told me how well they loved me, and that I was ruining myself. They
+said this was a favourite measure of the president, and I ought to go
+for it. I told them I believed it was a wicked, unjust measure, and that
+I should go against it, let the cost to myself be what it might; that I
+was willing to go with General Jackson in every thing that I believed
+was honest and right; but, further than this, I wouldn't go for him, or
+any other man in the whole creation; that I would sooner be honestly and
+politically d--nd, than hypocritically immortalized. I had been elected
+by a majority of three thousand five hundred and eighty-five votes, and
+I believed they were honest men, and wouldn't want me to vote for any
+unjust notion, to please Jackson or any one else; at any rate, I was of
+age, and was determined to trust them. I voted against this Indian bill,
+and my conscience yet tells me that I gave a good honest vote, and one
+that I believe will not make me ashamed in the day of judgment. I served
+out my term, and though many amusing things happened, I am not disposed
+to swell my narrative by inserting them.
+
+When it closed, and I returned home, I found the storm had raised
+against me sure enough; and it was echoed from side to side, and from
+end to end of my district, that I had turned against Jackson. This was
+considered the unpardonable sin. I was hunted down like a wild varment,
+and in this hunt every little newspaper in the district, and every
+little pin-hook lawyer was engaged. Indeed, they were ready to print any
+and every thing that the ingenuity of man could invent against me. Each
+editor was furnished with the journals of Congress from head-quarters;
+and hunted out every vote I had missed in four sessions, whether from
+sickness or not, no matter, and each one was charged against me at
+_eight_ dollars. In all I had missed about _seventy_ votes, which they
+made amount to five hundred and sixty dollars; and they contended I had
+swindled the government out of this sum, as I had received my pay, as
+other members do. I was now again a candidate in 1830, while all the
+attempts were making against me; and every one of these little papers
+kept up a constant war on me, fighting with every scurrilous report they
+could catch.
+
+Over all I should have been elected, if it hadn't been, that but a few
+weeks before the election, the little four-pence-ha'penny limbs of the
+law fell on a plan to defeat me, which had the desired effect. They
+agreed to spread out over the district, and make appointments for me to
+speak, almost everywhere, to clear up the Jackson question. They would
+give me no notice of these appointments, and the people would meet in
+great crowds to hear what excuse Crockett had to make for quitting
+Jackson.
+
+But instead of Crockett's being there, this small-fry of lawyers would
+be there, with their saddle-bags full of the little newspapers and their
+journals of Congress; and would get up and speak, and read their
+scurrilous attacks on me, and would then tell the people that I was
+afraid to attend; and in this way would turn many against me. All this
+intrigue was kept a profound secret from me, till it was too late to
+counteract it; and when the election came, I had a majority in seventeen
+counties, putting all their votes together, but the eighteenth beat me;
+and so I was left out of Congress during those two years. The people of
+my district were induced, by these tricks, to take a stay on me for that
+time; but they have since found out that they were imposed on, and on
+re-considering my case, have reversed that decision; which, as the
+Dutchman said, "is as fair a ding as eber was."
+
+When I last declared myself a candidate, I knew that the district would
+be divided by the Legislature before the election would come on; and I
+moreover knew, that from the geographical situation of the country, the
+county of Madison, which was very strong, and which was the county that
+had given the majority that had beat me in the former race, should be
+left off from my district.
+
+But when the Legislature met, as I have been informed, and I have no
+doubt of the fact, Mr. Fitzgerald, my competitor, went up, and informed
+his friends in that body, that if Madison county was left off, he
+wouldn't run; for "that Crockett could beat Jackson himself in those
+parts, in any way they could fix it."
+
+The liberal Legislature you know, of course, gave him that county; and
+it is too clear to admit of dispute, that it was done to make a mash of
+me. In order to make my district in this way, they had to form the
+southern district of a string of counties around three sides of mine, or
+very nearly so. Had my old district been properly divided, it would have
+made two nice ones, in convenient nice form. But as it is, they are
+certainly the most unreasonably laid off of any in the state, or perhaps
+in the nation, or even in the te-total creation.
+
+However, when the election came on, the people of the district, and of
+Madison county among the rest, seemed disposed to prove to Mr.
+Fitzgerald and the Jackson Legislature, that they were not to be
+transferred like hogs, and horses, and cattle in the market; and they
+determined that I shouldn't be broke down, though I had to carry
+Jackson, and the enemies of the bank, and the legislative works all at
+once. I had Mr. Fitzgerald, it is true, for my open competitor, but he
+was helped along by all his little lawyers again, headed by old Black
+Hawk, as he is sometimes called, (alias) Adam Huntsman, with all his
+talents for writing "_Chronicles_," and such like foolish stuff.
+
+But one good thing was, and I must record it, the papers in the district
+were now beginning to say "fair play a little," and they would publish
+on both sides of the question. The contest was a warm one, and the
+battle well-fought; but I gained the day, and the Jackson horse was left
+a little behind. When the polls were compared, it turned out I had beat
+Fitz just two hundred and two votes, having made a mash of all their
+intrigues. After all this, the reader will perceive that I am now here
+in Congress, this 28th day of January, in the year of our Lord one
+thousand eight hundred and thirty-four; and that, what is more agreeable
+to my feelings as a freeman, I am at liberty to vote as my conscience
+and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me,
+or the driver at my heels, with his whip in hand, commanding me to
+ge-wo-haw, just at his pleasure. Look at my arms, you will find no
+party hand-cuff on them! Look at my neck, you will not find there any
+collar, with the engraving
+
+        MY DOG.
+
+              ANDREW JACKSON.
+
+
+But you will find me standing up to my rack, as the people's faithful
+representative, and the public's most obedient, very humble servant,
+
+              DAVID CROCKETT.
+
+
+
+
+                 THE END.
+
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+entertaining. The humour sometimes approaches to downright
+burlesque, and the incident to extravagance, if not improbability;
+but, altogether, as a book of amusement, it is
+excellent."--_Baltimore Gazette._
+
+
+In Two Volumes, 12mo.
+
+THE FAIR OF MAY FAIR.
+
+By the Author of "PIN MONEY," &c.
+
+"Mrs. Gore certainly stands at the head of the female novelists of the
+day. But we subjoin the opinion of Mr. Bulwer."--_U. S. Gazette._
+
+"She is the consummator of that undefinable species of wit, which we
+should call (if we did not know the word might be deemed offensive, in
+which sense we do not mean it) the _slang_ of good society.
+
+"But few people ever painted, with so felicitous a hand, the scenery of
+worldly life, without any apparent satire. She brings before you the
+hollowness, the manoeuvres, and the intrigues of the world, with the
+brilliancy of sarcasm, but with the quiet of simple narrative. Her men
+and women, in her graver tales, are of a noble and costly clay; their
+objects are great; their minds are large, their passions intense and
+pure. The walks upon the stage of the world of fashion, and her
+characters, have grown dwarfed as if by enchantment. The air of
+frivolity has blighted their stature; their colours are pale and
+languid; they have no generous ambition; they are _little people!_ they
+are fine people! This it is that makes her novel of our social life so
+natural, and so clear a transcript of the original."--_The Author of
+Pelham._
+
+
+In Two Volumes, 12mo.
+
+THE INVISIBLE GENTLEMAN.
+
+By the Author of "CHARTLEY," "THE FATALIST," etc. etc.
+
+"It is a novel which may be termed the whimsically
+supernatural."--_Athenaeum._
+
+"The present narrative is one of the most entertaining fictions we have
+met with for a long time; the idea is very original, and brought into
+play with a lively air of truth, which gives a dramatic reality even to
+the supernatural."--_Literary Gazette._
+
+"The adventures follow each other with delightful rapidity and variety;
+occasionally there is a deep and thrilling touch of pathos, which we
+feel not a bit the less acutely, because the trouble and wo of the
+parties have originated in the familiar and somewhat laughable act of
+pulling an ear."--_Court Magazine._
+
+
+In Two Volumes, 12mo.
+
+MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS.
+
+"The best novel of the season--a faithful, exact, and withal spirited
+picture of the aristocracy of this country--an admirable description of
+what is called high life, and full of a more enlarged knowledge of human
+nature."--_Spectator._
+
+"A very lively and amusing panorama of actual life."--_Lit. Gazette._
+
+"A very interesting work, full of well-described scenes and characters,
+and altogether deserving of being classed with the first-rate novels of
+the day."--_Courier._
+
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+been perused. Elegance and force of style--highly but faithfully drawn
+pictures of society--are merits scarcely secondary to those we have
+enumerated: and they are equally displayed throughout. 'Mothers and
+Daughters' must find its way rapidly into every circle."--_Bulwer's New
+Monthly Magazine._
+
+
+In one Volume, 12mo.
+
+A SUBALTERN IN AMERICA;
+
+  COMPRISING HIS NARRATIVE OF THE CAMPAIGNS OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT
+  BALTIMORE, WASHINGTON, ETC. DURING THE LATE WAR.
+
+"The Subaltern is a man of sense, acuteness, and good feeling, who
+writes with spirit and good taste.--Considering that he is an Englishman
+and an English officer writing about America, his book is tolerably
+fair--and makes fewer insulting comments upon things which he did not
+understand, than has been customary with that kind of authors.
+
+"The 'Subaltern' is nevertheless a very agreeable, well written book,
+and we are glad to see it republished here. No doubt an American would
+have written some portions of it differently, but we can profit, we
+trust, by observing how opposite accounts can be fairly given of the
+same transactions, and learn something of the trouble in which history
+is written."
+
+_Baltimore American._
+
+"THE SUBALTERN IN AMERICA.--Under this title, Messrs. Carey, Hart & Co.
+have recently published a work in one volume, comprising a full
+narrative of the campaigns of the British army, at Baltimore,
+Washington, New Orleans, &c. during the late war. The incidents of the
+war, as related in the American papers, are probably familiar to most
+persons, through that channel. Yet the ends of truth, and the means of
+forming a just judgment, may require that one should hear the statement
+of the adverse party, as well as that most favourable to our side of the
+question. There is, moreover, two ways of telling even the truth. They
+who feel an interest in the details of this important struggle between
+kindred nations, have, in the book before us, an opportunity of hearing
+them, as shaped out by one of the adverse party. The 'Subaltern' bore an
+active share in the several campaigns, of which he professes to give an
+account; and if his narrations are somewhat partial to his own side of
+the question, it is but the indulgence of a very common foible, which
+may be the more readily excused, as the means of correction are at
+hand."--_Baltimore Patriot._
+
+
+In two Volumes, 12mo.
+
+PIN MONEY;
+
+BY MRS. CHARLES GORE,
+
+Authoress of "HUNGARIAN TALES," "POLISH TALES," etc.
+
+"Her writings have that originality which wit gives to reality, and wit
+is the great characteristic of her pages."--_Bulwer's New Monthly
+Magazine._
+
+"Light spirited and clever, the characters are drawn with truth and
+vigour. Keen in observation, lively in detail, and with a peculiar and
+piquant style, Mrs. Charles Gore gives to the novel that charm which
+makes the fascination of the best French memoir writers."--_London
+Literary Gazette._
+
+
+In one Volume, 12mo.
+
+LEGENDS AND TALES OF IRELAND
+
+BY SAMUEL LOVER.
+
+
+E. L. CAREY AND A. HART
+
+In two Volumes, 12mo.
+
+THE MAN-OF-WAR'S-MAN;
+
+By the Author of "TOM CRINGLE'S LOG."
+
+"No stories of adventures are more exciting than those of seamen.
+The author of Tom Cringle's Log is the most popular writer of that
+class, and those sketches collected not long since into a volume by
+the same publishers, in this city, were universally read. A large
+edition was soon exhausted. The present is, we believe, an earlier
+production, and has many of the same merits."--_Baltimore Gazette._
+
+"Messrs. Carey & Hart have published, in two volumes, 'The
+Man-of-War's-Man.' The success which attended the publication of
+'Tom Cringle's Log,' might well induce its ingenious author to
+undertake a continuous narrative, having for the subject of
+illustration the manners and customs of seamen. The work now before
+us is of the kind, well imagined, and executed with all the tact
+and clearness that distinguished the 'Log Book' of Master Cringle,
+with the advantages of a more regular plot and interesting
+denouement."--_U. S. Gazette._
+
+"Nobody needs be told what sort of a book Tom Cringle can
+write--that humorous and most admirable of sailors! We may just
+remark that the reader will find in the present volume the same
+power of description and knowledge of the world--the same stirring
+adventures, phrases, dialects, and incidents which rendered his
+last work so extravagantly popular. The printing is uncommonly good
+for a novel."
+
+
+In one Volume, 8vo.
+
+THE AMERICAN
+
+FLOWER GARDEN DIRECTORY,
+
+CONTAINING PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS FOR THE CULTURE OF PLANTS IN THE
+
+HOT-HOUSE, GARDEN-HOUSE, FLOWER-GARDEN, AND ROOMS OR PARLOURS,
+
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+desirable in each, the nature of the soil and situation best
+adapted to their growth, the proper season for transplanting, &c.;
+instructions for erecting a
+
+HOT-HOUSE, GREEN-HOUSE, AND LAYING OUT A FLOWER-GARDEN.
+
+Also, table of soils most congenial to the plants contained in the
+work. The whole adapted to either large or small gardens, with
+lists of annuals, bienniels, and ornamental shrubs, contents, a
+general index, and a frontispiece of Camellia Fimbriata.
+
+BY HIBBERT AND BUIST,
+
+EXOTIC NURSERYMEN AND FLORISTS.
+
+
+In two Volumes, 12mo.
+
+JACOB FAITHFUL;
+
+By the Author of PETER SIMPLE, &c. &c.
+
+
+In Two Vols. 12mo.
+
+FIRST LOVE, A NOVEL.
+
+"Its style is elegant, and its information that of a lady of amiable
+feelings and motives, who well understands her sex."--_Spectator._
+
+"The whole of the story, but particularly the dawning of that early
+dawning of life's morning, First Love, and the subsequent progress of
+that passion, are indeed delightfully sketched."--_Morning Post._
+
+
+In Two Volumes, 12mo.
+
+TRAITS AND STORIES OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY
+
+FIRST SERIES.
+
+"Admirable--truly, intensely Irish: never were the outrageous
+whimsicalities of that strange, wild, imaginative people so
+characteristically described; nor amidst all the fun, frolic, and folly,
+is there any dearth of poetry, pathos, and passion. The author's a
+jewel."--_Glasgow Journal._
+
+"To those who have a relish for a few tit-bits of rale Irish
+story-telling,--whether partaking of the tender or the facetious,
+or the grotesque,--let them purchase these characteristic
+sketches."--_Sheffield Iris._
+
+"The sister country has never furnished such sterling genius, such
+irresistibly humorous, yet faithful sketches of character among the
+lower ranks of Patlanders, as are to be met with in the pages of these
+delightful volumes."--_Bristol Journal._
+
+"This is a capital book, full of fun and humour, and most
+characteristically Irish."--_New Monthly Magazine._
+
+"Neither Miss Edgeworth, nor the author of the O'Hara Tales, could have
+written any thing more powerful than this."--_Edinburgh Literary
+Gazette._
+
+"We do not hesitate to say, that for a minute and accurate sketching of
+the character, manners, and language of the lower orders of the Irish,
+no book was ever published at all equal to this."--_Spectator._
+
+
+In Two Volumes, 12mo.
+
+TRAITS AND STORIES OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY.
+
+SECOND SERIES.
+
+"Traits and Stories of Irish Peasantry.--The whole story is one of that
+mirth-inspiring nature, that those who read it without hearty laughter
+must be either miserable or very imperturbable."--_Metropolitan, edited
+by T. Campbell._
+
+"There is strength, vigour--and above all--truth, in every story, in
+every sentence, every line he writes. The statesman ought to read such
+books as these; they would tell him more of the true state of the
+country than he has ever heard from the lips of her orators, or the
+despatches of the 'Castle Hacks.' We wish Mr. Carlton would send forth a
+cheap edition, that 'Traits and Stories' of Irish peasants might be in
+the hands of people as well as peers."--_Bulwer's New Monthly
+Magazine._
+
+
+In Two Volumes, 12mo.
+
+THE STAFF-OFFICER. OR, THE SOLDIER OF FORTUNE.
+
+A TALE OF REAL LIFE.
+
+"The web of life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together; our
+virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not, and our crimes
+would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues."
+
+
+BY OLIVER MOORE.
+
+"We are prepared to admit that our extracts do not do justice to the
+work: the writer's power is in discriminating _female_ character; but as
+he judiciously makes it develope itself by incident, to illustrate this
+would require scenes and pages to be transferred to our columns. As a
+whole, this novel will be read with interest: it is light and pleasant;
+with many very natural scenes, many excellent and well-drawn characters,
+and without one line or word of affectation or pretence."--_Athenaeum._
+
+"This is a most entertaining work: it is written with great spirit,
+elegance, and candour. The delineation of character (particularly that
+of many distinguished individuals officially connected with Ireland
+during the Pitt administration) is skilfully and vividly drawn; and the
+multifarious incidents--several of which are of a highly _piquant_
+description--are given with a tact and delicacy creditable to the
+judgment and talent of the author. We can say with truth, that we have
+fairly gone through this tale of real life without being cloyed or
+wearied for a single moment; but that it excited, and kept up, an
+interest in our minds which few volumes designed for mere amusement have
+been able to inspire."--_Brighton Herald._
+
+
+In Two Volumes, 12mo.
+
+THE NAVAL OFFICER;
+
+OR, SCENES AND ADVENTURES IN THE LIFE OF FRANK MILDMAY.
+
+By the Author of "PETER SIMPLE," "THE KING'S OWN," etc.
+
+"This is the most seaman-like composition that has yet issued from the
+press. We recommend it to all who 'live at home at ease,' and need
+scarcely say, that no man-of-wars man should remain an hour without
+it."--_Atlas._
+
+The following beautiful and judicious compliment to the genius of
+Captain Marryatt, author of the Naval Officer, is from the pen of Mr.
+Bulwer, who, it will be acknowledged, is no inexperienced or unobserving
+critic:
+
+"Far remote from the eastern and the voluptuous--from the visionary and
+refining--from the pale colouring of drawing-room life, and the subtle
+delicacies of female sentiment and wit, the genius of Captain Marryatt
+embodies itself in the humour, the energy, the robust and masculine
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+interest; but these are not his forte, or his appropriate element. He is
+best in a rich and various humour--rich, for there is nothing poor or
+threadbare in his materials. His characters are not, as Scott's, after
+all, mere delineations of one oddity, uttering the same eternal
+phraseology, from the 'prodigious' of Dominie Sampson, to 'provant' of
+Major Dalgetty--a laughable, but somewhat poor invention: they are
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+knowledge of the metaphysics of social life."
+
+
+In Two Volumes, 12mo.
+
+THE CONTRAST A NOVEL.
+
+By EARL MULGRAVE, Author of "MATILDA," "YES AND NO," etc.
+
+"'Yes and No' contained the best _tableaux_ of actual--human--English
+society in the nineteenth century, of any novel we know of. The same
+characteristics that distinguished the most agreeable novel are equally
+remarkable in its successors."--_Bulwer's New Monthly Magazine._
+
+"'Contrast' cannot fail to prove interesting."--_Court Journal._
+
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+story. The design is to paint a man whose strong feelings are curbed by
+an over-fastidiousness--what the French so happily term un-homme
+difficile."--_London Literary Gazette._
+
+"Messrs. Carey and Hart have republished, in two neat volumes, Earl
+Mulgrave's novel of the 'Contrast,' which has been so favourably
+received in England. It is said to be one of the best novels of the
+kind, that has issued from the press for years."--_Philadelphia
+Inquirer._
+
+"'Pelham,' and 'Yes and No,' are perhaps the only paintings of the
+present time which are drawn with the accuracy of knowledge, and the
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+those novels which, founded on truth, gave the most just delineation of
+the higher classes in England, it is to the above mentioned works we
+should refer. _The present volumes, however, are an infinite improvement
+on their predecessor._"--_London Literary Gazette._
+
+
+In One Volume, 8vo.
+
+MEMOIRS OF MARSHAL NEY,
+
+COMPILED FROM PAPERS IN THE POSSESSION OF HIS FAMILY.
+
+The work has been put together under the direction and management of the
+Duke of Elchingen, Marshal Ney's second son, who has affixed his
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+
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+interesting biography; the anecdotes with which they are interspersed
+have plainly been collected with great pains from all the early friends
+of that illustrious warrior."--_Blackwood's Magazine._
+
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+he left behind him at his death, consisting of anecdotic and
+biographical fragments, accounts of his divers missions and campaigns,
+and the substance of many extraordinary secrets intrusted to him as a
+general and a statesman. All these materials throw great light upon the
+history of the French empire, as the details given in the memoirs
+possess the strongest interest."--_Pennsylvania Inquirer._
+
+
+In One Volume, 12mo.
+
+CONVERSATIONS ON VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY;
+
+  COMPREHENDING THE ELEMENTS OF BOTANY, WITH THEIR APPLICATION TO
+  AGRICULTURE.
+
+By the Author of "CONVERSATIONS ON CHEMISTRY," &c. &c.
+
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+
+Third American Edition, with coloured plates.
+
+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
+
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+  PRINCIPLES OF THE ART OF MODERN HORSEMANSHIP FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
+  IN WHICH ALL THE LATE IMPROVEMENTS ARE APPLIED TO PRACTICE.
+
+Translated from the French, by DANIEL J. DESMOND.
+
+THE ART OF HORSEMANSHIP.--This is the title of a neat little work
+translated from the French of Mr. Lebeaud, by Daniel J. Desmond, Esq. of
+this city, and just published by Carey & Hart. It gives full and
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
+
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+
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+
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+
+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
+
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+
+THE HORSE IN ALL HIS VARIETIES AND USES;
+
+His breeding, rearing, and management, whether in labour or rest; with
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+JOHN LAWRENCE, author of "The History of the Horse," etc.
+
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+
+
+CHESNUT STREET,
+OCTOBER, 1833.
+
+NEW WORKS PUBLISHED AND PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION,
+
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+
+
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+
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+
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+
+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
+By the Author of the "COLLEGIANS."
+
+
+In Two Volumes, 12mo.
+
+  TRAVELS IN VARIOUS PARTS OF PERU; INCLUDING A YEAR'S RESIDENCE IN
+  POTOSI.
+
+  By EDMUND TEMPLE, Kt. of the Royal and distinguished Order of CHARLES
+  III.
+
+"These travels in Peru will long maintain their reputation for the
+accuracy of detail, the spirit of the style, and the utility of the
+information they contain. The professional matter is very
+valuable."--_Bulwer's New Monthly Magazine._
+
+"There is much to instruct, and a great deal to amuse. Amid the details
+of personal adventures, there is a great deal of shrewd and strong
+observation."--_London Monthly Magazine._
+
+"We have met with no volumes of travels in that country with which, upon
+the whole, we have been so much pleased as the one before
+us."--_Baltimore Gazette._
+
+"This is an instructive and entertaining work."--_National Gazette._
+
+"This book is one of the most entertaining that has been issued from the
+press for some time."--_Pennsylvania Inquirer._
+
+
+In Two Volumes, 12mo.
+
+SYDENHAM; OR, MEMOIRS OF A MAN OF THE WORLD.
+
+"A new novel of fashionable life, under the title of 'Sydenham, or
+Memoirs of a Man of the World,' will shortly be given to the public. It
+exhibits the history of a young man of rank and fortune, who, being of a
+decidedly satirical turn, resolves to gratify his favourite penchant to
+ascertain the internal state of fashionable society, and minutely to
+observe human nature under every variety of shade and circumstance.
+Among other characters with whom he comes in contact, is the celebrated
+BRUMMEL, who figures under the name of Beaumont: this gentleman arrests
+his peculiar attention, and serves him for a complete study. The work
+is, moreover, illustrative of those sets or circles in the world of ton
+which have never been depicted in the pages of fiction, and respecting
+which so much curiosity has long been felt."--_New Monthly Magazine._
+
+"Each of these volumes is in fact a separate work--each in a different
+style and spirit--each aspiring to a different fame in composition.
+'Sydenham' is a capital work, which, without the trouble of puffing,
+must make a great stir in the upper and political circles."--_London
+Lit. Gaz._
+
+"Sydenham is well written, and contains much pleasant and some severe
+satire. The present Whig ministers in England are handled without
+gloves, and a number of distinguished personages occupy more conspicuous
+places than they would have been likely to choose, had the matter been
+referred to themselves."--_Courier._
+
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+intrinsic evidence of a new writer. The portrait of Brummel, the 'arch
+dandy,' is excellent; and all the scenes in which he is engaged are
+managed with skill and tact. There is, in fact, sufficient material in
+this book for three or four novels."--_New Monthly Magazine._
+
+"All the personages are of course real, though under fictitious names;
+these pages are, in reality, memoirs of the intrigues of the times, full
+of keen observation, graphic sketches of character, biting sarcasm, one
+page of which would make the fortune of a pamphlet."--_London Gazette._
+
+
+In Two Volumes, 12mo.
+
+  RECORDS OF TRAVELS IN TURKEY, GREECE, &c. IN THE YEARS 1829, 1830, AND
+  1831; AND OF A CRUISE IN THE BLACK SEA, WITH THE CAPTAIN PASHA.
+
+BY ADOLPHUS SLADE, ESQ.
+
+"One of the most valuable and interesting works which has yet been
+placed in our hands, on the domestic state of Turkey."--_Monthly
+Review._
+
+"We do not know when we have met with two volumes more amusing--they are
+full of highly entertaining and curious matter."--_Court Jour._
+
+"The work before us supplies the best description of this remarkable
+nation."--_Courier._
+
+"One of the most amusing and interesting of oriental travellers, none
+having ever equalled him in a thorough knowledge of the true state of
+society, and the true character of the Turks."--_Spectator._
+
+"We can warmly recommend this book for perusal, it is not only very
+amusing but very valuable."--_Metropolitan._
+
+"We can assure our readers that no records of travels in modern times,
+with which we are acquainted, presents so many features of general
+attraction as the volumes before us."--_London Monthly Review._
+
+"Mr. Slade has produced, without any trace of pretension, one of the
+most sensible and agreeable books of travel we have ever had the
+pleasure to peruse."--_United Service Journal._
+
+
+In Two Volumes, 12mo.
+
+LEGENDS OF THE RHINE.
+
+By T. C. GRATTAN, Esq. Author of "HIGH-WAYS AND BY-WAYS."
+
+"We are well content to pass an hour once more with the lively and
+entertaining author of 'High-ways and By-ways." The hour has not yet
+gone by, and we have not completed the perusal of the two volumes; but
+the tales we have observed are worthy the repute in which the writer is
+held, and are even of a higher order--more chaste in language and
+perfect in style."--_Boston Traveller._
+
+"Messrs. Carey and Hart have just issued 'Legends of the Rhine,' by the
+author of 'High-ways and By-ways.' To those who recollect Mr. Grattan's
+former writings, (and who among novel readers does not?) it is only
+necessary to say, that the present 'Legends' are, in no respect,
+inferior to their predecessors. The traditions which he has here wrought
+into shape are all said to have an existence among the dwellers near the
+mighty river; and it is certain they are full of romantic interest. The
+'Legends' are twelve in number, and, though not equal in all respects,
+there is no one of them that does not possess a strong claim to
+admiration."--_Saturday Courier._
+
+"Few sets of stories, published within the last ten years, have been
+more popular than those called 'High-ways and By-ways.' The author of
+these, after having produced two or three successful works of a
+different sort, has given us two volumes of tales, with the title
+'Legends of the Rhine,' which are to be published to-morrow, we
+understand, by Carey and Hart. The author professes, seriously, to have
+founded his narratives on traditions yet extant among those who live
+near the banks of the great German river; and many of them end so
+tragically that we can hardly suspect the writer of having invented them
+for his own amusement or that of his readers. They are all interesting,
+though not all skilfully framed; and each of them contains pages that
+may be placed in a competition with the most shining passages of any
+other living novel writer."
+
+
+In Two Volumes, 12mo.
+
+STANLEY BUXTON; OR, THE SCHOOLFELLOWS.
+
+  By JOHN GALT, Esq., Author of "ANNALS OF THE PARISH," "LAWRIE TODD,"
+  "EBEN ERSKINE," etc.
+
+"While guile is guiltless, and life's business play,
+Friendships are formed that never know decay."
+
+"Oh, that all novels were like this piece of admirable
+fiction."--_Spectator._
+
+"We must say this work is in Mr. Galt's best style, the volume before us
+contains samples of his tastes and of his powers."--_Bulwer's New
+Monthly Magazine._
+
+"Mr. Galt's new novel is on our table, and we regret we have not space
+to go further into the arcana of 'Stanley Buxton,' in which the author
+has aimed at painting natural feelings in situations not common, and
+with much success. Some of his descriptions are also deserving of
+special praise. Two episodes in the second volume add to the general
+interest, and further recommend the work to public favour."--_London
+Literary Gazette._
+
+"We find in this work the force of conception, and the full execution
+which distinguish the 'Annals of the Parish,' and 'Lawrie
+Todd.'"--_Sun._
+
+"The new novel, 'Stanley Buxton,' just published by Carey and Hart, may
+be called one of the very best of Mr. Galt's productions."--_Daily
+Chronicle._
+
+"In 'Stanley Buxton' there is the same delightful freshness, the same
+striking originality of purpose, the same easy and flowing, yet racy
+and spirited manner which characterized the 'Annals of the
+Parish.'"--_Saturday Courier._
+
+"For touching the heart, for keen knowledge of nature, and for quiet and
+beautiful descriptions, like the still life in a painter's sketch, Galt
+possesses a vision and a power, that are not often surpassed, except by
+Bulwer. The author of 'Stanley Buxton' is infinitely superior to
+D'Israeli, whose imagination is as excursive and capricious as the wing
+of a sea-fowl."--_Chronicle._
+
+"Mr. Galt is a writer so well known and so deservedly admired, that the
+announcement of a new novel from his pen is sufficient to awaken general
+curiosity."--_Gazette._
+
+
+In Two Volumes, 12mo.
+
+FITZ GEORGE.
+
+A NOVEL.
+
+"Smiles without mirth, and pastimes without pleasure,
+Youth without honour, age without respect."--_Byron._
+
+"There are scenes in it which must awaken attention and interest; it is
+evidently written by a powerful and accustomed hand."--_Athenaeum._
+
+"Fitz George is a production of great talent."--_Weekly Despatch._
+
+"If all novels were like this, they would soon be in the hands of
+philosophers as well as fashionables."--_True Sun._
+
+"Should a library be formed in Buckingham Palace, these volumes should
+have a shelf in it to themselves."--_Bell's New Weekly Messenger._
+
+"The whole book abounds with the most stirring interest."--_National
+Omnibus._
+
+
+In Two Volumes, 12mo.
+
+OUR ISLAND.
+
+COMPRISING _FORGERY, A TALE_; _AND_, _THE LUNATIC, A TALE_.
+
+"There is a great share of talent in these pages, which have also the
+merit of being laid chiefly among scenes new to a large portion of our
+readers."--_Literary Gazette._
+
+"_The Lunatic._--This is indeed an excellent tale--well told--with
+variety of incidents and character, and with much humour. Not to speak
+in disparagement of the first tale, we must confess that we have been
+highly pleased with the second, and we think our readers' time will be
+amply repaid by a perusal of both."--_London Monthly Magazine._
+
+"This work is of a generally interesting character, and we feel it our
+duty to encourage the publication of such productions as these tales,
+since they point attention to errors of legislation."--_Weekly
+Despatch._
+
+
+In Two Volumes, 12mo.
+
+PETER SIMPLE; OR, ADVENTURES OF A MIDSHIPMAN.
+
+By the Author of "THE KING'S OWN."
+
+
+In Two Volumes, 12mo.
+
+TOM CRINGLE'S LOG.
+
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+of the present day, not even excepting our own Cooper, has surpassed him
+in his element."--_U. S. Gazette._
+
+"The sketches are not only replete with entertainment, but useful, as
+affording an accurate and vivid description of scenery, and of life and
+manners in the West Indies."--_Boston Traveller._
+
+"We think none who have read this work will deny that the author is the
+best nautical writer who has yet appeared. He is not Smollett, he is not
+Cooper; but he is far superior to them both."--_Boston Transcript._
+
+"The scenes are chiefly nautical, and are described in a style of beauty
+and interest never surpassed by any writer."--_Baltimore Gazette._
+
+"The author has been justly compared with Cooper, and many of his
+sketches are in fact equal to any from the pen of our celebrated
+countryman."--_Saturday Evening Post._
+
+
+In Two Volumes, 12mo.
+
+TOM CRINGLE'S LOG. SECOND SERIES.
+
+
+In Three Volumes, 12mo.
+
+TOM CRINGLE'S LOG. FIRST AND SECOND SERIES.
+
+A NEW EDITION COMPLETE.
+
+
+In One Volume, 8vo.
+
+_HALL ON THE LOSS OF BLOOD._
+
+RESEARCHES
+
+PRINCIPALLY RELATIVE TO
+
+THE MORBID AND CURATIVE EFFECTS OF LOSS OF BLOOD.
+
+BY MARSHALL HALL, M.D., F.R.S.E., &c. &c.
+
+"It will be seen that we have been much pleased with Dr. Hall's work
+generally; we think it is calculated to do much good in placing the
+subject of the due institution of blood-letting on a practical basis.
+Dr. Hall has subjoined a plan of a Register of Cases of Blood-letting,
+which would be a most useful record, if properly kept; and we cannot
+recommend such a detail of facts, to practitioners, in too high
+terms."--_American Journal of Medical Sciences, No. XI._
+
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+sufferers, but we know some have perished from direct exhaustion
+complicated with reaction, who might have been saved, if the principles
+and practice of our author had been known and understood."--_N. A. Med.
+and Surg. Journal, No. XX. for October, 1830._
+
+
+In One Volume, 8vo.
+
+_TEALE ON NEURALGIC DISEASES._
+
+A TREATISE ON NEURALGIC DISEASES,
+
+  Dependent upon Irritation of the Spinal Marrow and Ganglia of the
+  Sympathetic Nerve.
+
+By THOMAS PRIDGIN TEALE.
+
+Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, of the Royal Medical
+Society of Edinburgh, Senior Surgeon to the Leeds Public Dispensary.
+
+Price 31 cents.
+
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+character, when it is so often our lot to be obliged to labour hard to
+winnow a few grains of information from the great mass of dullness,
+ignorance, and misstatement with which we are beset, and cannot too
+highly recommend it to the attention of the profession."--_American
+Journal of the Medical Sciences, No. X._
+
+
+In One Volume, 8vo.
+
+SELECT SPEECHES OF JOHN SERGEANT OF PENNSYLVANIA.
+
+
+SELECT MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL TRANSACTIONS.
+
+A collection of the most valuable Memoirs read to the Medico-Chirurgical
+Societies of London and Edinburgh; the Association of Fellows and
+Licentiates of the King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland;
+the Royal Academy of Medicine of Paris; the Royal Societies of London
+and Edinburgh; the Royal Academy of Turin; the Medical and Anatomical
+Societies of Paris, &c. &c. &c.
+
+Edited by ISAAC HAYS, M.D.
+
+
+In One Volume, 8vo.
+
+A PRACTICAL COMPENDIUM OF MIDWIFERY:
+
+    Being the course of Lectures on Midwifery, and on the Diseases of
+    Women and Infants, delivered at St. Bartholemew's Hospital.
+
+By the late ROBERT GOOCH, M.D.
+
+"As it abounds, however, in valuable and original suggestions, it will
+be found a useful book of reference."--_Drake's Western Journal._
+
+
+In One Volume, 8vo.
+
+AN ACCOUNT OF SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT DISEASES PECULIAR TO WOMEN;
+
+BY ROBERT GOOCH, M.D.
+
+"In this volume Dr. Gooch has made a valuable contribution to practical
+medicine. It is the result of the observation and experience of a
+strong, sagacious, and disciplined mind."--_Transylvania Journal of
+Medicine._
+
+"This work, which is now for the first time presented to the profession
+in the United States, comes to them with high claims to their
+notice."--_Drake's Western Journal._
+
+
+In Two Volumes, 12mo
+
+FRESCATIS; OR, SCENES IN PARIS.
+
+
+In One Volume, 18mo.
+
+COLMAN'S BROAD GRINS.
+
+A NEW EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS.
+
+
+In One Volume, 12mo.
+
+THE GROOM'S ORACLE, AND POCKET STABLE DIRECTORY.
+
+In which the Management of Horses generally, as to Health, Dieting, and
+Exercise, is considered, in a Series of Familiar Dialogues between two
+Grooms engaged in training Horses to their work, as well for the Road as
+the Chase and Turf. By JOHN HINDS, V.S., Author of the "Veterinary
+Surgeon." Embellished with an elegant Frontispiece, by S. ALKEN. First
+American, from the second London Edition. With considerable additions,
+and an appendix, including the RECEIPT BOOK OF JOHN HINDS, V.S.
+
+"This enlarged edition of the 'Groom's Oracle' contains a good
+number of new points connected with training prime horses; and the
+owners of working cattle, also, will find their profit in
+consulting the practical remarks that are applicable to their
+teams; on the principle that _health preserved_ is better than
+_disease removed_."
+
+"THE GROOM'S ORACLE, by J. HINDS, is among the most valuable of our
+recent publications; it ought to be in the possession of every
+gentleman, who either has in possession, or has a chance of
+possessing, the noble animal to whose proper treatment the author
+has directed his enlightened researches."--_Taunton Courier, 1830._
+
+
+REFLECTIONS ON EVERY DAY IN THE WEEK, WITH OCCASIONAL THOUGHTS.
+
+BY CATHARINE TALBOT.
+
+Neatly done up in paper with gilt edges. Price 20 cents.
+
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+published, in a neat and popular form, by Messrs. Carey and Hart. They
+are simple, and applicable to every reader, and distinguished not less
+by eloquent thought, than by sound and correct judgment. The little work
+will be read by no one without profit."--_Saturday Evening Post._
+
+
+In One Volume, 8vo.
+
+_TATE ON HYSTERIA._
+
+A TREATISE ON "HYSTERIA."
+
+BY GEORGE TATE, M.D.
+
+"As public journalists, we take this occasion to return him our hearty
+thanks for the pains he has taken to shed a new light on an obscure and
+much-neglected topic."--_North Amer. Med. and Surg. Journ. No. XIX._
+
+
+In One Volume, 12mo.
+
+  A SUBALTERN IN AMERICA; COMPRISING HIS NARRATIVE OF THE CAMPAIGNS OF THE
+  BRITISH ARMY AT BALTIMORE, WASHINGTON, ETC. DURING THE LATE WAR.
+
+
+In Two Volumes, 12mo.
+
+NIGHTS-AT-MESS.
+
+
+In Two Volumes, 8vo.
+
+NATURE DISPLAYED IN HER MODE OF TEACHING LANGUAGE TO MAN;
+
+Being a new and infallible method of acquiring languages with
+unparalleled rapidity; deduced from the Analysis of the human Mind, and
+consequently suited to every capacity; adapted to the French,
+
+BY N. G. DUFIEF.
+
+To which is prefixed a development of the author's plan of tuition:
+differing entirely from every other; so powerful in its operation and so
+very economical, that a liberal education can be afforded even to the
+poorest of mankind.
+
+EIGHTH EDITION, ENLARGED AND IMPROVED.
+
+
+In Two Volumes, 8vo.
+
+DUFIEF'S SPANISH NATURE DISPLAYED.
+
+
+In Two Volumes, 8vo.
+
+  A NEW UNIVERSAL AND PRONOUNCING DICTIONARY OF THE FRENCH AND ENGLISH
+  LANGUAGES.
+
+Containing above _fifty thousand_ terms and names not to be found in the
+Dictionaries of Boyer, Perry, Nugent, &c. &c.; to which is added a vast
+fund of other information equally beneficial and instructive.
+
+BY N. G. DUFIEF.
+
+A new Edition, revised and corrected by the Author.
+
+
+In One Volume, 18mo.
+
+_THE SURGEON-DENTIST'S MANUAL._
+
+THE SURGEON-DENTIST'S ANATOMICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL MANUAL.
+
+By G. WAIT.
+
+Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, &c. &c.
+
+"The work cannot fail, we think, to answer well the purpose for which it
+was designed, of a manual for the practical dentist; and in the notes
+will be found many useful hints respecting the diseases of these
+structures."--_Boston Med. and Surg. Journ. 1830._
+
+
+MANUAL OF SURGICAL OPERATIONS.
+
+CONTAINING THE NEW METHOD OF OPERATING
+
+DEVISED BY LISFRANC.
+
+Followed by two Synoptic Tables of Natural and Instrumental Labours.
+
+By J. COSTER, M.D. and P. of the University of Turin.
+
+"Dr. John D. Godman, Lecturer on Anatomy, in this city, a gentleman of
+distinguished professional and literary talents, having translated this
+small, but valuable volume, for the benefit of the students who may
+honour our University by their attendance, I shall merely refer to that
+work. I have more pleasure in recommending, inasmuch as a short system
+of operative surgery has been a desideratum."--_Gibson's Surgery, Vol.
+II. page 541._
+
+
+In One Volume, 8vo.
+
+_SAISSY ON THE EAR._
+
+DISEASES OF THE INTERNAL EAR.
+
+BY J. A. SAISSY.
+
+    Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Literature, and Arts in
+    Lyons, Fellow of the Medical Society of the same city, and of the
+    Medical Societies of Bordeaux, Orleans, Marseilles, &c. Honoured
+    with a premium by the Medical Society of Bordeaux, and since
+    enlarged by the author.
+
+Translated from the French by NATHAN R. SMITH, Professor of Surgery in
+the University of Maryland, with a Supplement on Diseases of the
+External Ear, by the Translator.
+
+
+FROISSART AND HIS TIMES.
+
+BY THE LATE BARRY ST. LEGER.
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+      Transcriber Notes
+
+    Obvious punctuation and spelling errors have been corrected.
+
+    The following are as in the original:
+
+    Major Russell and Major Russel are used interchangeably in the
+    book.
+
+    Page4 original: and the trick he has played off on the publick.
+
+    Page 10 its versus it's original: use, its just nobody's business. Big
+    men
+
+    Page 86 (scroundrell's) original: old scroundrell's two big sons
+    with us, and made
+
+    Page 119 flower is old english for flour original: man a cupfull of
+    flower. With this, we thickened
+
+    Page 168 bran-fire and branfire original: This is," said I, "a
+    branfire new way of doing - clearly not hypenated in this line.
+
+
+    The following changes have been made:
+
+    Page 17 original: bioagraphers, I should not only inform the public
+
+    replacement: biographers, I should not only inform the public
+
+    Page 141 original: and years all open, to catch every word I would
+
+    replacement: and ears all open, to catch every word I would
+
+    Page 158 original: where I stop'd to pull of my wet clothes, and
+    put
+
+    replacement: where I stop'd to pull off my wet clothes, and put
+
+
+    Page 230 original: and mistatement with which we are beset,
+
+    replacement: and misstatement with which we are beset,
+
+
+
+
+
+
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