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enter into long discussions with his friends; and urges upon them that they should love one another, and treat one another as brothers; and then he would sit himself down and sing songs for their amusement, until, with much drinking, he would sing himself to sleep. //

      Here the Indians broke into a general laugh.
      This way of life continued for a considerable time, during which he still resided with his mother. But all of a sudden, he began to reflect. He found he was wasting the little means he  had to support his mother. He determined to alter his course. He had word marked out one plan after another; but at length settled upon being a Black Smith. First he made a word marked out blacksmith's bellows for himself, intending to manufacture hoes & axes; but his machinery did not succeed to his mind, and after repairing hoes & axes for while, he left home on a visit to several words marked out the house of Mr. Archibald Campbell who lived at Santa?. This was in 1820. * When word scratched out it was known that he had arrived at Mr. Campbell's
  • Santa? is on the Tennessee River, within the Alabama limits. Gist's residence then was at Willis Town, Willis Valley; between Lookout & Raccoon Valley.