But toward night the blacksmith concluded his iron wouldn't make a ploughshare, but 'twould make a fine skow.

So my neighbor, tired of working, cried, 'A skow let it be;' and the blacksmith, taking up the red-hot iron, threw it into a trough of hot water near him, and as it fell in, it sung out skow.

And this, Mr.
Speaker, will be the way of that man's bill for a county.

He'll keep you all here, doing nothing, and finally his bill will turn up a skow; now mind if it don't." At this time, Crockett, by way of courtesy, was usually called colonel, as with us almost every respectable man takes the title of esquire.

One of the members offended Colonel Crockett by speaking disrespectfully of him as from the back woods, or, as he expressed it, the gentleman from the cane.