In the log cabins in those mountains today are heard the same ballads, sung still to the dulcimer, that entertained the earliest settlers.

The women still turn the old-fashioned spinning wheels.

The code of the men is still the code learned perhaps from the Gaels--the code of the oath and the feud and the open door to the stranger.

Or were these, the ethical tenets of almost all uncorrupted primitive tribes, transmitted from the Indian strain and association?
Their young people marry at boy and girl ages, as the pioneers did, and their wedding festivities are the same as those which made rejoicing at the first marriage in Watauga.

Their common speech today contains words that have been obsolete in England for a hundred years.
Thrice have the mountain men come down again from their fastnesses to war for America since the day of King's Mountain and thrice they have acquitted themselves so that their deeds are noted in history.