hooting of Marcum as he stood in the
court-house door at Jackson, Ky., with animadversions upon the identity
of his slayers and an account of their various trials.

THE IRISH PEDDLER, 4a3b4c3b, 7: An account of the murder of an old
peddler and his wife, shot from ambush one June morning for the purpose
of rifling their wagon.

JOHN HARDY, iii, 4a3b4c3b, 6: An account of Hardy's shooting a man in a
poker game, of his arrest, trial, conviction, conversion and baptism,
and of his execution and burial on the Tug River.

JEREBOAM BEAUCHAMP, 3abcb, 33: A recital of the murder of Beauchamp done
upon Solomon P. Sharpe, Attorney-General of Kentucky, at Frankfort in
the winter of 1824. (Cf. William Gilmore Simms' novel of the same name,
and see VII, 2.)

IX.

_The songs of this group relate to various occupational pursuits. Of
course, many of those listed elsewhere could be placed here also._

THE MOONSHINER, 4aa, 3: "For seventeen years I've made moonshine whiskey
for one dollar per gallon, at my still in a dark hollow. I wish all
would attend to their business and leave me to mine. God bless the
moonshiner!"

WALKING-BOSS, metre as below, 3: A teamster's song in couplets, with
refrain, beginning:

Get up in the morning 'way before day,
Feed old Beck some corn and hay.
Get up in the morning soon, soon;
Get up in the morning soon.

THE STEEL-DRIVER, ii, 4a3b4c3b, 11: John Henry, proud of his skill with
sledge and hand-drill, competes with a modern steam-drill in Tunnel No.
Nine, on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad. Defeated, he dies, asking to be
buried with his tools at his breast.

ROSIN THE BOW, 3abcb, 4: A lyric of an old fiddler buoyant even in the
face of approaching death: he asks for wine and women at his funeral
rites.

ROSIN THE BOW: a fragment as follows:

I'll tune up my fiddle, I'll rosin my bow,
And make myself welcome wherever I go.

THE OLD SHOEMAKER, 4a3b4c3b and 4a3b4c3b, 4: Lately become a freeman,
with five pounds laid up, and half a side of leather, he sings of Kate,
the woman to make his content complete.

THE FARMER'S BOY, ii, 4a3b4c3b, 9: An orphan lad, he obtains employment
from the farmer, later to marry his daughter and inherit thus the farm.

OLD GRAY, 6aabb, 5: Song of a teamster, who, lured by the still-house,
hauls four loads of coal per day, instead of six; becoming drunk, he
rides Old Gray off to a country frolic one night, whither his father
fol