Residents in the older States of the East are frequently twitted with their ignorance concerning the newer States of the West, and of the habits and customs of those who, having taken Horace Greeley's advice at various times, turned their faces toward the setting sun, determined to take advantage of the fertility of the soil, and grow up with the country of which they knew but little.

Looking for recruits on Court Day, he was twitted about the rout of the army by Hence Sturgill, whose long-coveted chance to redeem himself had come.

When moving off with the money, he was twitted at as a "mean beggarly Scot," doing for money what no Englishman would.

By this time I had worked up quite a case, and was looking like a man injured in his finest feelings and twitted of his poverty.