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all that's about him, plase your Honorable Judge."

"Heelstring Nation" - Putnam at Knoxville told me was a name givin to the Mountaineers of the unclear Mountains of North Carolina - where the Girls distend their heelstrings by running up & down the mountains -

"Stranger" said a Tenessee Backwoodsman to a unclear Traveller, "Couldn't I git to unclear a few varmint in them unclear whiskers of yourn."

Mr Putnam told me a story, which he has put in print somewhere, of a scene he said he witnessed at an inn.

An Eastern Man, travelling, was assuming airs; and as he strutted about the bar room, the Landlord walked up to him: Are you for supper, Sir?