However, I am almost induced to believe it flattery--perhaps a burlesque.

This is new to me, yet I see nothing but friendship in your faces; and if your curiosity is to hear the backwoodsman, I will assure you I am illy prepared to address this most enlightened people.

However, gentlemen, if this is a curiosity to you, if you will meet me to-morrow, at one o'clock, I will endeavor to address you, in my plain manner.' "So I made my obeisance to them, and retired into the house." It is true that there was much of mere curiosity in the desire to see Colonel Crockett.

He was a strange and an incomprehensible man.

His manly, honest course in Congress had secured much respect.