his hand.
Standing, at the distance of one hundred and twenty feet, he fired
twice, striking very near the centre of the mark. Some one then put up
a quarter of a dollar in the midst of a black spot, and requested him
to shoot at it. The bullet struck the coin, and as Crockett says made
slight-of-hand work with it.

From New York he went to Boston. There, an the opponent of some of
President Jackson's measures which were most offensive to the New
England people, he was feted with extraordinary enthusiasm. He dined
and supped, made speeches, which generally consisted of but one short
anecdote, and visited nearly all the public institutions.

Just before this, Andrew Jackson had received from Harvard University
the honorary title of LL.D. Jackson was no longer a favorite of
Crockett. The new distinguished guest, the renowned bear-hunter, was in
his turn invited to visit Harvard. He writes:

"There were some gentlemen that invited me to go to Cambridge, where
the big college or university is, where they keep ready-made titles or
nick-names to give people. I would not go, for I did not know but they
might stick an LL.D. on me before they let me go; and I had no idea of
changing 'Member of the House of Representatives of the United States,'
for what stands for 'lazy, lounging dunce,' which I am sure my
constituents would have translated my new title to be. Knowing that I
had never taken any degree, and did not own to any--except a small
degree of good sense not to pass for what I was not--I would not go it.
There had been one doctor made from Tennessee already, and I had no
wish to put on the cap and bells.

"I told them that I did not go to this branding school; I did not want
to be tarred with the same stick; one dignitary was enough from
Tennessee; that as far as my learning went, I would stand over it, and
spell a strive or two with any of them, from a-b-ab to crucifix, which
was where I left off at school."

A gentleman, at a dinner-party, very earnestly invited Crockett to
visit him. He returned the compliment by saying:

"If you ever come to my part of the country, I hope you will call and
see me."

"And how shall I find where you live?" the gentleman inquired.

"Why, sir," Crockett answered, "run down the Mississippi till you come
to the Oberon River. Run a small streak up that; jump ashore anywhere,
and inquire for me."

From Boston, he went to Lowell. The hospitality he had enjoyed in
Boston won his wa