He'll be mighty apt, before he drinks, to throw away his tobacco.

So when he's done, I pulls my twist out of t'other pocket and gives him a chaw.

I never likes to leave a man worse off than when I found him.

If I had given him a drink and he had lost his tobacco, he would not have made much.

But give him tobacco, and a drink too, and you are mighty apt to get his vote." With such speeches as these, interlarded with fun and anecdote, and a liberal supply of whiskey, Crockett soon made himself known through all the grounds, and he became immensely popular.