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The first composition he put together was in the subject of the boundary line between his own country and Georgia and Tennessee. After that, he had a suit in the Indian Court held at Chatouga. He wrote down a statement of his case. When got there, he read his statement, instead of speaking; and all the people were amazed. This was about a year after the invention was compleated. A son of the great John Watts, (brother of the Watts who was at the Council Ground,) and who was called the Big Rattling Gourd, was one of the listeners. At daybreak next morning he went to the house where Gist stopped. He knocked? and when he sat down, he told Gist he had not slept all night for thinking of the wonder. It surpassed any thing he could have conceived it probible for the power of man to accomplish. Gist replied that he had done it that he might do good to himself and family, though while he was doing it all his relatives? thought he was inspiring? both his family and himself. Big Rattling Gourd asked if he could write down any thing he might choose, or only particular things?