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PAGE FOUR THE PILOT NOVEMBER, 1959 Players help team-mate Johnny Wren as he searches for f for his pass. Losses And A Tie Mar Earlier Impressive Record The Gardner-Webb football squad is being guided this year by capable co-captains Ed Lohr and Bill Nix. These boys hail from Richmond, Virginia, where they played for Thomas Dale High School. They were outstanding figures in the G-W line-up last year and have promise of pacing the Bulldogs to even greater accomplishments this year. Ed holds down the left defensive and offensive tackle positions. He has made a large percent of the tackles this season. Nix runs from the fullback position on offense and from the safety position on defense. Outstanding linemen on this year’s squad are John Keeter, who is playing a second year for Gard ner-Webb at guard, and “Hoot" Gibson, also a guard, who has been sidelined with a leg injury the past two games. Other returning lettermen doing excellent work this year are Fred Ensle, David Hamby, Johnny Wrenn, John Campbell, Roger Gladden, and Charles Holland. These have added much in spirit and strength to the squad. The Bulldogs have four outstand ing freshmen on the team this year; Fred Bostic from Gaffney, South Carolnia, playing center, Pete Lee from Walhalla, South Carolina, at halfback, Lloyd Porter from Old Fort, North Carolina, also at halfback, and Bobby Lohr from Richmond, Virginia, playing offen sive right tackle. The defense of the Bulldogs has been the most important factor in the success of the team thus far. The line averages 205 pounds, and only 15 points were scored against them in the first five games. The 1959 Gardner-Webb Bulldogs prove to have one of the best teams ever. After beating Chowan 14-0, Lees-McRae 7-0, and Georgia Mili tary 7-0, they were rated third among junior colleges in the nation. The 6-0 loss suffered at Mars Hill, however, knocked them from that position. A second defeat, 9-6, came at the hands of the Davidson Col lege Freshmen team. Despite a few tough breaks, Coaches Blackburn and Harris are quite optimistic about the remain ing games and urge all fans to go to the games and support the team. ANGLISH (Continued from Page 3) the verb, such as gwine for gone; mought for might, dim, het, ort, cotch, fotch, and dremp. Peculiar adjectives axe formed from verbs. “Chair-bottoming is easy settin’ down work.” “I don’t like this fotch-in kraut that comes in tin cans.” Pleonasms are abundant. “I done done it.” “I thought it would sure ly, undoubtedly, turn cold.” “A small, little bitty hole.” “Jane’s a to’able big, fleshy woman.” Everywhere in the mountains we hear of buscuit-bread, ham-meat, rifle-gun, women-folks, preacher- man, granny-woman, and neighbor- people. In this category belong the famous double-barreled pronouns; we-all and you-all in Kentucky, and we-uns and you-uns in Carolina and Tennessee. “Let’s we-uns all go over Double negatives are common. Triple negatives are easy: “I ain’t got nary none.” Or the qualdruple: “That boy ain’t never done nothing nohow.” Or even this quintuple: “I ain’t k of n kind do no washin’.” Our highlanders often speak Eli zabethan or Chaucerian or even Pre - Chaucerian. Their pronoun “hit” is the Anglo-Saxon neuter of “he.” Afore, atwixt, awar, heap o’ folks, peart, up and done It, usen for used—all these everyday expressions of the backwoods were contempor ary with the Canterbury Tales. Many old-fashioned terms are preserved in the Appalachian Mountains that seem strange to out siders. You will hear an aged old man referred to as “Old Grandsir” so-and-so. “Back this letter for me” is a phrase unchanged from the days before envelopes when an ad dress had to be written on the let ter itself. “Can I borry a ‘race’ of ginger?” means the imgi-ound root —you will find the word in Shakes peare’s Winter’s Tale. When one dines in a cabin back in the hills, he wiU taste some Prof. Dedmond's Articles On Thoreau Cited In Recent Book Four articles or bibliographies on Henry David Thoreau, published by F. B. Dedmond, head of the English department of Gardner- Webb College, have been cited in the recently published A Thoreau Handbook. The handbook, written by Walter Harding, is a 1959 pub lication of New York University is no adequate study of Thoreau’s friendship with Ellery Channing . . . Channing himself wrote a satire on the Concord group, and the Thoreau portion of it has been published in F. B, Dedmond ‘Wil liam Ellery Channing on Thoreau." Chapter five of the handbook is entitled “Thoreau’s Fame.” A part of that chapter deals with Tho reau’s book Walden. The author writes; “A good brief survey of the popularity of Walden over the years is Francis B. Dedmond, “100 Years of Walden.” This was pub lished in the Concord, Mass., Jour nal. strange dishes that go by stranger names. Beans dried in the pod, then boiled “hull and all” are called “leather-breeches,” Green beans in the pod are called “snaps.” When shelled, they are called “shuck- beans.” Your hostess, preferring apple sauce, will say, “Do you love sass?” If one is especially fond of a certain dish he declares that he is a fool about it. “I’m a plumb fool about pickle-beans.” If the food is scant the hostess may say, “That’s right at a smidgeon,” meaning little more than a mite. But you should reply “Oh, no, there are rimptions.” If the house be in disorder it is said to be all gormed or gaumed up, or things are just in a mommick. When a man is in a hurry, he is in a swiwet; if he’s nervous he has the “allovers.” If he and his neigh bors dislike each other, there is a “hardness” between them. If they quarrel, it is a “ruction, a rippit, a jower, or a up-scuddle.” A fretful person is “tetchious.” Survigous (ser-vi-gus) means most vigorous—“a survigous lady.” Boda- ciously means entirely. “Sim greev- ed him out bodaciously (to greeve out is to outwit in a trade). To shamp means to shingle or trim one’s hair. Si-godlin is out of plumb. In the Smokies, a toad is called a frog or a toad-frog, and a toad stool is a frog-stool. The woodpeck er is turned around into pecker- What the mountaineers call hem lock is the shrub leecothoe. The hemlock is called spruce,pine, while sprice is he-bolsom. Bolsom itself is she-bolsom, laurel is ivy, and rho dodendron is laurel. Evening in the mountains begins at noon instead of sunset. Spell is used in the sense of while (“a good spell atterward”). The hillsmen say “a year come June.” “Thursday twas a week ago,” “the year nineteen and eight.” A Mountaineer does not throw a stone; he “flings a rock.” Tomato, cabbage, molasses, and baking pow der are always used as plural nouns. “Pass me them molasses.” “How many baking-powders has you got?” The speech of the southern high lands is alive with quaint idioms. “Your name ain’t much common.” “You think me of it in the morn ing.” “Aire ye plumb bereft?” “I ain’t caring which nor whether about it.” “I tuk my fut in my hand and lit out.” When the mountaineer is drawn out of his natural reserve and al lows his emotions free rein, there are few educated people who can match his picturesque and pungent diction. SHOP AT BELL'S FOR YOUR COMPLETE LINE OF COLLEGE CLOTHING CLOTHING FOR BOYS and GIRLS BELL'S Lattimore, N. C. Just 4 Miles From The Campus Quality Merchandise at Prices You Can Afford “Men Get That Flat Top' at WALLACE'S BARBER SHOP Boiling Springs, N. C. 7:00 A. M. - 6:00 P. M. 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