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The Cherokee speak much of a very eccentric old warrior who died among them a few years ago. His name in Cherokee was Tah, see, key, yar, key; in English, Shoe Boots; and he derived it from his great pride in wearing high hessian military boots, with word scratched out tassels. This was not his only evidence of a love for display in dress. Over his Indian hunting shirt, he wore a military coat & epaulettes: he was always unclear with a long friend and a belt sustaining horseman's pistols at each ride, with a grim looking knife and his gaunt figure was surmounted with a vast -- cocked hat and a towering military plume.
Shoe boots had other taste4s i common with some heroes of civilized life. He was fond of music & of dancing. He had improved the word scratched out Indian instrument called a Blait, which is made from a hollow elder stick to imitate the cry of the fawn, and decoy the does in the forest. He had improved this so as to aid a talent which he unclear in a remarkable degree that of crowing like a cock. And with other joyous tastes. Shoe boots in his younger days was fond of a carouse.