I never saw either of the Hardys,--they were Alleghany River men,--but people who knew them told me all these things.

And they said Captain Hardy wore yarn socks winter and summer just the same, and his first wife's name was Jane Shook--she was from New England--and his second one died in a lunatic asylum.

It was in the blood.

She was from Lexington, Kentucky.

Name was Horton before she was married.' And so on, by the hour, the man's tongue would go.