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liquor for friendship's sake. But he could not carry that much ; there- fore they put a quart bottle into his pocket, telling him "Good-bye! Whinever you want some good liquor, or your friends, let us know. We make pure stuff, Ko 'duUering here," He stumbled along until about eight o'clock that night and came to a mountain town of twenty houses, having covered thirty-five miles that day. The story concerning the night and the next morning will not be told, lest it cause resent-

��ment in that little town, Xow it had happened that three days before, my comrade had lost, in this same general vicinity, a purse containing in all $110, whereupon we had trudged back down a mountain and had found the finder, who had gladly restored it to us, and indeed, who had told several people of his discovery, thus hoping to find the owner. Therefore I was in no mood to judge the "moonshiners" harshly, even though the quart bottle was shown to me.

Transportation

I wish I could adequately emphasize the fact that transportation is the basic problem of the region. Poor communication within it ji-

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