I can whip my weight in wildcats, and, if any gentleman pleases, for a ten-dollar bill he can throw in a panther.

I can hug a bear too close for comfort, and eat any man opposed to General Jackson.'" All eyes were immediately turned toward this strange man, for all had heard of him.

A place was promptly made for him at the fire.

He was afterward asked if this wondrous outburst of slang was entirely unpremeditated.

He said that it was; that it had all popped into his head at once; and that he should never have thought of it again, had not the story gone the round of the newspapers.
"I came on to Washington," he says, "and drawed two hundred and fifty dollars, and purchased with it a check on the bank in Nashville, and enclosed it to my friend.