dian Comrades-Jake Doyle and "Staff"— Jake's Mess-Loss of Tradition, Legend, and Folk Lore-Flattering Lo-Cherokee Lan- guage-Indian Names-Poverty of Their Speech-Panier's Dreadful Dilemma-Impris- oned with a Mountain Maiden-Narrow Escape of Panier and the Keg―The Bunghole-Leav- ing Qualla—Off for the Tuckeeseegee—What We've Seen-Lo at Work-Monday Morning -Bryson City-New Town-Stirring People No Corn-A Starving Country-Bushnell-Jim -A Tree That Meanly Yielded Water-Down Silence Gathering Fear A Nocturnal CHAPTER VIII. Leaving the Haunted House-Mile Posts--Indian PAGE 243 per and a Nap in a Fence Corner-Maryville -Panier's and Blanc's Obtuseness to MusicA Forgotten Epic--The Author of "Home, Sweet Home"-Farewell to Saltus Africanus and Jim--Dissolving View of Jim on a Hillside Knoxville-Off for Home-The End of the Wagonautic Journeyings by Field and Wild ... PAGE 268 MINUTES OF THE FIRST MEETING OF THE WAGONAUTS. Ae night at e'en, a merry corps, In wag'naut quarters held the splore, Quafling an' laughing They ranted an' they sang; Wi' jumping an' wi' thumping, The (Burns.) AT an adjourned meeting of the Wagonauts, held pursuant to adjournment - "Hold on," objected White. "This being the first meeting, can't be met pursuant to adjournment”—present the President, H. M. Doak, Secretary R. L. Hoke, and G. H. Baskette and R. L. C. White, private Wagonauts-it was moved by White and seconded by Hoke that the Wagonauts spend two weeks this summer about the Great Bald and the Roan, and the trout streams thereabout, in the mountains of Northwestern North Carolina; and two weeks of next summer on the trout streams about the Quoi-Ahna-Catoosa, to-wit: the Cataloochie, the Ocona-Luftee, the Tuckee-see-gee, the Socoah, and the Nante-ha-la, in and near the Cherokee Reservation of Qualla, in Southwestern North Carolina. At this point the proceedings were foully interrupted by the entrance of a black Hebe, with four schooners of beer and four portions of limberger cheese, which, not to speak it profanely, smelled like sheol, with an ancient, a noisome and sulphurous funk. The cheese was labeled "Teufelsdröckh's Best, Eldest, and Fragrantest." It was determined, nem. con., that the Wagonauts should wear aliases; White, alone, the chronic objector, interposing, "The apparel's rather thin even for July." In deference to White's delicacy-which is well grounded-to mention of aliases, it was agreed that members might wear such other apparel as they might deem fit, belly-bands alone being barred. "I The Wagonauts then went into an election of aliases. Brutus nominated White to be R. Elsie Albus. object," shouted White. "I want al-buss-in,' I do, kept sub rosâ, and I don't want to be advertised to do all-bussin'. Besides," he further objected, "the tying of 'perfide' onto Albion has degraded the name --it's a reflection." These objections were allowed due weight, and White proposed that his alias might be "Lucus," which, he maintained, was a literal translation of White into the latinus vulgus. Panier objected that this would be a lucus a non lucendo-White wasn't lucid, and alba never lucus. "Let it be Blanc, then," suggested Hoke. "I'm not a blank cartridge," cried White, besides 'twould be profanity." "It's |