Show BOTH HUMOR AND POETRY EVINCED IN PLACE NAMES tho southern mountaineers whim mical humor la Is seen not cot only in some of hla his songs bongs and hoo hoc downs but in place names commemorating some jest some episode more or less grimly comical or tragic broke jug creek tear breeches ridge chunky gal mountain seldom seen sech holl hollow ow ripain alp seln aldge bucht buchl now how vividly that recalls certain scrambles through stony thickets burnt shirt mountain jerk em ein tight hanging dog creek headforemost mountain bore auger creek flory flery gizzard creek tho the defils courthouse and so BO on 0 u 1 in cumberland county tennessee Tennes seo two beautiful brawling streams unite whose names are no business creek and how come you creek undoubtedly doub there la Is a story back of each name but the mountaineer la Is often poetic too and gracefully descriptive de 8 crip in hla his place names the touch of melancholy in ichla his nature to Is evidenced by the frequent recurrence of such names as lonesome and troublesome desolation defeated poor fork kingdom come calling water and lost creek are significant names of streams craggy dome balsom cone tho the black brothers lone bald bala thunderhead little snowbird grandfather graybeard and jaine spring bald are all mountains lyrically and de lly named nama I 1 asked a mountain man inan in north carolina whether a certain bold promontory had a name and illare I 1 have in a pleasant memory of the slow lift of his eyes to where it towered 1000 feet above labove us ua and the soft drawl of his mellow low pitched volca voice as he answered tas fas hits called the winter star F harlow barlow in the saturday evening post |