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If the mount'n country was worth developin', we should have developed it; if not, we should have left." "I've often wondered why you didn't, Uncle Eli," said Hamilton. "Yo' must remember," the Kentuckian said, "that the mount'neers are a most independent lot. They want to be independent, an' up hyeh, every man is his own master.
"Not jes' with war-paint an' tomahawk, yo' understan'," continued the old man, enjoying the boy's astonishment, "but uncivilized an' wild. Thar an't any finer stock in the world, he said, than the mount'neers o' the Ridge, clar down to Tennessee, an' he said, too, that they were o' the good old English breed, not foreigners like are comin' in now."
I jes' tell yo' that when the time comes for the mount'neers o' Kentucky an' Virginia an' Tennessee an' Carolina to get a fair chance, they'll show yo' as fine a race o' men an' women as the Stars an' Stripes flies over." "They are mighty fine right now, I think," the boy said.
That's why they're so hard to teach, those po' whites, what they learn doesn't stick. I heard him tellin' yo' about the disappearance o' the last teacheh." "Yes, he was putting it down to 'cunjering. Is there much of that sort of idea in the mountains?" "None among the mount'neers proper," replied the old man.
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