Mumford Pickens is a right smart feller. He can speak and write a bunch of languages, but I can’t ever tell what’s true or not. He once told me that he was able to make puns in the Cherokee language. There weren’t no way to prove it. Then I remembered Chief Sitting Quietly.
We set out a few days later to visit the chief to confirm Mumford’s boast. Mumford greeted the chief and started talking to hi…