The new distinguished guest, the renowned bear-hunter, was in his turn invited to visit Harvard.

He writes: "There were some gentlemen that invited me to go to Cambridge, where the big college or university is, where they keep ready-made titles or nick-names to give people.

I would not go, for I did not know but they might stick an LL.D.on me before they let me go; and I had no idea of changing 'Member of the House of Representatives of the United States,' for what stands for 'lazy, lounging dunce,' which I am sure my constituents would have translated my new title to be.

Knowing that I had never taken any degree, and did not own to any--except a small degree of good sense not to pass for what I was not--I would not go it.
There had been one doctor made from Tennessee already, and I had no wish to put on the cap and bells.
"I told them that I did not go to this branding school; I did not want to be tarred with the same stick; one dignitary was enough from Tennessee; that as far as my learning went, I would stand over it, and spell a strive or two with any of them, from a-b-ab to crucifix, which was where I left off at school." A gentleman, at a dinner-party, very earnestly invited Crockett to visit him.

He returned the compliment by saying: "If you ever come to my part of the country, I hope you will call and see me." "And how shall I find where you live ?" the gentleman inquired.
"Why, sir," Crockett answered, "run down the Mississippi till you come to the Oberon River.