As the whiskey was passing freely around, Crockett thought it a favorable moment to make himself known, and to try his skill at an electioneering speech.

He was a good-looking man, with a face beaming with fun and smiles, and a clear, ringing voice.

He jumped upon a stump and shouted out, in tones which sounded far and wide, and which speedily gathered all around him.
"Hallo! Doctor Butler; you don't know me do you?
But I'll make you know me mighty well before August.

I see they have weighed you out against me.

But I'll beat you mighty badly." Butler pleasantly replied, "Ah, Colonel Crockett, is that you?
Where did you come from ?" Crockett rejoined, "Oh, I have just crept out from the cane, to see what discoveries I could make among the white folks.