Show BOTH HUMOR AND POETRY EVINCED IN PLACE NAMES The southern mountaineers mountaineer's whim whimsical deal humor Is seen not only In some of or his songs rind hoe downs but In to place names commemorating some orne Jest some episode e more or les less grimly comical or tragic Broke tragic Jug Broke creek reck Tear Breeches ridge Chunky- Chunky Gal mountain Seldom-Seen Seldom hollow Shin Rip rl ridge ridge ouch c ouch I 1 How vividly that recalls certain scrambles through stony thickets thickets Shirt Shirt Burnt mountain mountain mountain moun moun- tain Jerk Em Era Tight Hanging Dog DOl Dogcreek Dogcreek creek Headforemost mountain Bore- Bore Auger creek Fiery Gizzard creek the Devils Devil's Courthouse and so on on In Cumberland county T Tennessee two beautiful brawling streams unite whose names are arc No Business creek and How ow Come You creek Undoubtedly Undoubtedly Un Un- there Is Js a n story back of each name But the mountaineer Is often poetic too and gracefully descriptive live tive In his place names The touch of melancholy In his nature Is evidenced evidenced evidenced evi evi- by bj the frequent recurrence of such names as Lonesome and Troublesome Desolation Defeated Poor Fork Kingdom Come Falling Failing Water Vater and Lost creek arc are significant names of ot streams Craggy Dome Balsom Cone the Black Brothers Lone Ione Bald Thunderhead Little Snowbird Grandfather Graybeard and Wine Spring Bald Baldare Baldare are all aU mountains l lyrically and ond descriptively de de- named I asked a mountain man In n North Carolina whether a n certain bold pro pro- promontory promontory promontory montory had a n name and I t have a pleasant memory of the slow V lift of his eyes to where It towered 1000 feet ab above vc us and the soft drawl drawl of his mellow pitched low-pitched voice as ns he answered Yas hits hit's called the Winter Star Alvin Star Alvin F. F Harlow In tn Inthe inthe the Saturday Evening Post |