Some effort was made to collect the “yarns he spun,” but it was finally abandoned as impracticable. The gentleman who has already been mentioned, uses the following language respecting them: “I can mention some stories, but the happy details have all faded away. * * * His best stories were so dramatic in manner, that they can only be talked, they cannot be written; they talk with fine effect, but they lose a vast amount of their force as soon as they are on paper, for there was a charm about his telling of them which pen and ink cannot convey. * * * He made you cry and laugh at the same time. It is easy to make people laugh; it is very hard to make them do both.”