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Here it is: Oh, the days of bygone joys, They never will come back to me; When I was with the girls and boys, A-courting, down in Tennessee. Ulee, ilee, aloo, ee Courting, down in Tennessee. It was "Jack's" habit to allow his head to hang to the left, due, presumably, to much practice in holding down the large end of his violin with his chin.

I know that 'distance lends enchantment'; I'll get back farther, take the best view I can get, and preserve the enchantment." To cover his discomfiture, he started for camp, whistling: "Ulee, ilee, aloo, ee."

"I'm glad they left no bullets in me Ulee, ilee, aloo, ee; Courting, down in Tennessee." This paraphrasing of his favorite ditty was, of course, perpetrated by "Jack." But we all wished we knew. Was it true that these men were conspirators with the Indians who had been ravaging the emigrant trains?

When several calls failed to arouse him, one of the boys tied an end of a rope around "Jack's" feet, hitched a pair of oxen to the other end, and hauled the delinquent out some distance on the sand. "Jack" sat up, unconcernedly rubbed his eyes, then began untying the rope that bound his feet, his only comment being "Ulee, ilee, aloo, ee; Courting, down in Tennessee."