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Wall, how do you git along down amongst them heathenish Kentucks & niggers? I s'pose there ain't no great difference between 'em, is there? When I git a little more larnin', I b'lieve I'll come down there to keep school. O, I forgot to tell you that our old line back cow has got a calf the prettiest little critter Dad has gin her to me, and I call her Helleny, I do, I swow!
Ordinarily the name refers to some easily recognizable accident of origin, occupation, or aspect; as witness the innumerable Dutcheys, Frencheys, Kentucks, Texas Jacks, Bronco Bills, Bear Joes, Buckskins, Red Jims, and the like. Sometimes it is apparently meaningless; one of my own cowpuncher friends is always called "Sliver" or "Splinter" why, I have no idea.
There we camped until we made out the flat-boat, General Wilkinson's boat, all laden with tobacco and flour and bacon, and just a few Kentucks with muskets, that the Spaniards at Natchez had been fools enough to let pass!
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