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Updated: May 3, 2025
She cunjer him coz he rode de gray colt to de Coht House when she done tole him to let dat gray colt alone, coz 'twarnt hisen but hern, an' he go shoot hese'f dead by de gate pos'. You's got to go fru by dat pos' when you go inter de gate." "Dat same pos'!" cried Peggy. "Yaas," said Aunt Judy, "dat same one.
"Quite a good deal." "Then that must be Bill Wilsh's teacher," exclaimed Hamilton, and he told the supervisor the story of the "cunjer," the whittled schoolhouse and the "trying" scholar. "I've got the carving still," he concluded, "and as you probably will see Mr. Sinclair again soon, I wonder if you would give it to him for me.
The younger boy looked at the city-bred lad with an evident pity for his ignorance. "So's he couldn't cunjer us, O' course," he said. "Don' yo' even know that? Ol' Blacky Baldwin is a first-class cunjer, an' any one o' them can cunjer you with the words he hears yo' sayin'." "But if this 'cunjer-fellow' was hanging around the school," suggested Hamilton, "why didn't you tell the master?"
"Not gone fo' holidays." "Oh, I see," said Hamilton, "you mean he's gone for good. But aren't you going to have another one?" "Dunno if he's gone for good," the mountain boy answered. Hamilton stared in bewilderment. "Cunjer got him," the other continued. But this did not explain things any better. "Cunjer?" repeated Hamilton. "You mean magic?" The mountain boy nodded. "Yes, cunjer," he affirmed.
"Just what do you mean by 'cunjer'?" asked Hamilton, knowing that it would be useless to argue the conditions of a modern city with a boy who had never seen one. "Bein' able to put a cunjer on, so's the one yo' cunjer has got to do anythin' yo' want." "Sort of hypnotism business," commented the older boy. "Dunno' what yo' call it in the city.
Up hyeh in the mount'ns we call it cunjer, an' thar's some slick ones hyeh, too." "But how did the teacher get mixed up in it?" queried Hamilton. "It doesn't sound like the sort of thing you'd expect to find a schoolmaster doing." "He wasn't doin' it, it was again' him," the mountain boy explained. "The folks hyeh suspicioned as he was tippin' o' the revenoo men." "Who did? Moonshiners?"
"You're fooling, aren't you?" said Hamilton questioningly, "you can't mean it. I never heard of 'cunjer' as a real thing. There's lots about it in books, of course, but those are fairy tales and things of that sort." "An' yo' never saw a cunjer?" "Of course not." "Reckon they don' know as much in cities as they think they do," the youngster retorted.
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