The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-30
THE MOUNTAINEERS SPEECH.
picturesque Pr. nunc:aticns Heard IN the
Car Dina High lands.

Car Dina Highlands.
From the Raleigh Ncps and Observer.
In books and magazines and newspaper
the Carolina mountaineer has frequently
inquired. sometimes being overestimated
usually misrepr esented, and rarely set IN Ms
true light. For one thing. he Is seldom
credited with ability to use correct English
That he occasionally butchers the grammar
and manufactures his own dictionary ID OF
course undeniable: but you would most
probably err in calling him an ign oramus'
ior even his errors are attractive Tor thelr
Independence and picturesqueness IL may
| therefore be worth DIR while to CONSIDER
a cluster Of his inaccura cies. and from MS
viewpoint analyze them and see the picture
that Is vivid In his mind as he uses them FOR
| example:
When you fetch" man. you get closer
TO him than when you merely touch him.
| "Furder" is unQuestionably long distance
beyond either further" or farther" When
you are "yon" side Of the river. you may be
Just on the bank, but "yan" side you are up
on the safe. serene hilltop overlooking the
valley.
| II mountain dame tells you your sermon
10 powerful good" 1t means that you have
| preached far better than when the metro
| politan lady gasps. How beautiful! How
! much neghb orliness and direct, unglossed
utterance there Is In the statement jim
was sick and holp him with his craps.
| III you are going to town. you reach there as
| soon as you get to the corporate limits: but
when you git thar" you are right UP against
| the court house from which all roads In the
| county are measured. You may exercise
| your persuasive powers a little longer when
| man puts you of In smooth. oily. grammati-
cal phrase, but when he firmly CALCULATES. Il
hain't a-goln' to do IT." you might as well
save your time and lungs and brains.
nninnu ora fha Nl I'M N
garden or boiled juiceless on the MONDAY
| plate or picked in the jar: but "ingerns"-
my! my! Can't you smell the very odor. and
doesn't the spatterlng Juice All your eyes with
| unwilling tears?
soft timber twig apple is good but a
"saft" one-how much mellower. sweeter
and more palatable. A man may count him.
self caught" when his pursuer Is barely in
sight; but when "cotch" he is in the very
hand OF the pursuer. hard and fast. and can
not get away.
II you were about to drown. you would
undoubtedly be safer II firmly "hut" than
loosely held" by your rescuer. What use
Ia there for the 20" In hoist" and "joist"?
Why not make an photographic shortcut
with our highland friend and say "hyst" and
-jys"?
When a sturdy cottager warned Mecken-
burg hunting boys against bears and rattle
snakes. they could not mistake the meaning
Of his words: III ye don't mind. the bars and
bell tails II git vel"
What II the names OF Grecian sages are
somewhat abbreviated ph ilosopher given
two syllables t"Socrates" and the orator
three t"Dem-os- thenesJ? 1t simply illus
trstes the law that In prom ounc cling proper
names there is no law;
The faint q high sounding "iniapty,--
how your blood Is stirred and you want to
out" II at once
but wy sor .ous"-is there less Of blunt power
ana energy? II thing Is said to be inevi-
s,se s fboDe there be way
How ought, was 80 transformeed may not
ness saa. Honest ethics I il the phrase 4
ort to So 70 church to-day"
Gh may snew ss u pretv aooa
You may have creepy sensations along
are Afraid" but when you are afeard."
your teeth actually begin to chatter with
You are also reminded Of the days Of Eliza
bor with Ghagaeterlstio Independence. says.
She. your 'i Mouth. may ,S be little Inele-
CANT but It is certainly forceful and ia likely
hs bsoS not to draw him
yard eali but % t.is i'm up q yon5 owp back
70 feses the s' cows 81 from the pasture may
require little more than letting down the bars,
but there is more yigor In the effort required
reports 'r1 fote IN emf ne part Oh '''e e'" VINO
The hunter who saw" a deer may have
his game: but the man who seed" him was
'o f. sed ne% s who was probably
sdry s she eSst IN the y.1f
bsyonet in face to face encounter, " " A'
is a ba vhsn az h eoSnry
labor boiling point temperature la generated
he simply "sweats and no other word de-
scrbes 1t.
In the lowlands rock house, is house
built out OF rocks ouarried and hauled and
fitted In place by the mason but 60 he noun
capitals, is a valley overlooking. mountain
enclosed. boulder riven cave. God-built and
undestroyed by the assaults OF uncounted
Thus we might go on through a long vo-
cabulary; but these random, disa!ranged
examples are sufficient TO illustrate the very
GERS English. And concerning his bad !
grammar" these things may be said in con-
clusion.
may suffer in accuracy, It loses little or moth.
!. is largely Anglo sa Son; many words
good usase in shakespea Test tine S"' from
1t is occasional: the great majority use as
good present day English as you will find
enerally current among our people any
1t is often wilful; that is. the speaker often
knows better, but from force Of habit uses |
It is rapidly becoming a thing Of the past:
for IN the educational revival sweeping over |
NE STATE. the np-conntIyman Il not whit
or down by the sounding sea.