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that one man is as good as another, if not a little the best, pro- 

 vided he is honest. They entertain supreme contempt for the 

 lower country and city folks, who were too ignorant to course 

 a bee tree or follow a wolf trail, who asked silly questions and 

 could not tell a deer track from that of a hog or a sheep, who 

 knew nothing of signs and shot-scatter guns, who w^ore 

 starched shirts and combed their hair. 



Even the women regarded the men from the lower country 

 as effeminate, and on one occasion a buxom mountain lassie 

 bantered a South Carolina hunting party for a foot race, offer- 

 ing to take the biggest man they had on her back and beat 

 their best runner. On another occasion this same heroine was 

 seen coming from a mountain george, with her rifle, sleeves 

 rolled up and bloody arms, and, upon being questioned, indiffer- 

 ently replied that she had " jist kilt a bar beyant the Terrapin." 



Many years ago, Mr, John C. Calhoun, Col. Gadsden and 

 Col. Wm. Sloan, were surveying for a railway pass through 

 these mountains, and whilst the subject of railroads was under 

 discussion in the presence of the mountain family, a young 

 daughter, the pride of the household, put in : " Uncle Jim says 

 ef he war to see one of them relerodes acomin', he'd leave the 

 world and take a saplin' ; Dad says, ef he seed the dern 

 thing he'd drap rite down on the yeath." But now these 

 people can mount any of their neighboring heights and watch 

 the wreathing smoke as it curls up from the iron horse, speed- 

 ing along the Piedmont hills. Long ago a marketing party 

 from this section, with their wagons, made the great trip to 

 Augusta, Ga. They belonged to the Hardshell persuasion and 

 everything moved nicely 'till they got to Augusta, when one 

 of the brethren got too much of the o'erjoyful, fixed up in ice 



