Crockett first directed his steps to Hickman County, to engage in his "bran-fire" new work of electioneering for himself as a candidate for the Legislature.

What ensued cannot be more graphically told than in Crockett's own language: "Here they told me that they wanted to move their town nearer to the centre of the county, and I must come out in favor of it.

There's no devil if I know'd what this meant, or how the town was to be moved.

And so I kept dark, going on the identical same plan that I now find is called non-committal.
"About this time there was a great squirrel-hunt, on Duck River, which was among my people.

They were to hunt two days; then to meet and count the scalps, and have a big barbecue, and what might be called a tip-top country frolic.