It was stuck full of little glass cups, with something in them that looked good to eat.

Says I, 'Mister, bring that thing here.' Thinks I, let's taste them first.

They were mighty sweet and good, so I took six of them.

If I didn't, I wish I may be shot!" This humorous fabrication was copied into almost every paper in the Union.

The more respectable portion of Crockett's constituents were so annoyed that their representative should be thus held up to the contempt of the nation, that Crockett felt constrained to present a reliable refutation of the story.