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PART 1

“THIS SPEAKING SOUL”

The keeping alive of such verse shows a wholesome and sane effort to meet a needed demand, and is the result of a distinct poetic gift, applied to all subjects and all sorts of spirits and made most effective when some passionate mind is aroused…. This speaking soul is an effective possession, increasing [the mountain balladeers’] love for liberty, their endurance, their restraint, and manliness, all expressive of the spirit and sap of the stock.

Katherine Jackson French