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music in a show down fight, the number actually having figured in the 

 ambuscades being small. 



In some parts of the region, as about Oneida, education is causing 

 the decline of the feud; but in other sections it flourishes, as near Pound 

 Gap (Trail of the Lonesome Pine), near where, it is said, some eleven 

 men were killed in three months during the spring of 1914. 



The home, also, is changing. One still can see the windowless log 

 cabin with its "dog-trot" ; but some roofs are of shingles, and some of 

 tin, while frame structures are appearing, and brick. 



Mountain simplicity and hospitality are illustrated by one man who 

 said, "I want a good house; two rooms — one for the family and one for 

 company, each big enough for a bed in every corner — and a lean-to cook 

 room." 



The following is a description from Professor Penniman's unpublished 

 tales of the mountains : "Three days are ample to build a log-cabin 

 twenty feet square. The part before the roof is called a 'pole pen'. This 

 is run up in a few hours. The trees sufficient to build a cabin complete 

 are often standing on an acre. With the roof up, and stone chimney on 

 the outside, and the big fireplace opening into the room, the young people 

 can begin housekeeping. A few saplings will make a bed frame fastened 

 to the logs in one corner, and a bed without a tick, two feet thick, of 

 fresh pine needles, gives a sense of luxury to the newly married pair." 



Customs and EaMts. . 



It must be remembered that there are all grades of society in the 

 mountains, and that no general description can be applied to a specific 

 case. 



Woman is inferior to man in both number and position. Not only 

 is she a household drudge, but a field hand as well (out-of-door work in 

 itself, of course, does not constitute drudgery). She still follows behind 

 him as they trudge over the mountain. A mountain boy, upon being asked 

 how many brothers he had, answered promptly : "Two." But concerning 

 the number of sisters, he drawled : "Oh, three or four." The modern 

 woman movement hardly has penetrated into the hills, and when it does, 

 it will meet orthodox opposition. However, women increasingly vote in 

 school affairs in some districts. Furthermore, here and there a girl re- 

 turns from Berea, or some other college, with ideas strange to her people. 



