A tale from an earlier generation (~1920s) is that a visiting school board bigwig asked the janitor "where's the principal?"

The custodian replied, according to the wigbig, "Go to Hell and Hunt 'er."

The pompous ass spent a couple of weeks trying to figure out how to fire the janitor before someone finally got him to shut up long enough to tell him that the name of the principal at the Pleasant Valley School (Reno County Kansas) was clearly posted on the office door as "Helen Hunter."

That might be (?) the same school board official whose carriage (minus the horse) was found high-centered on the peak of the school house roof a little later.

(Not exactly "mountain mean," but country boys (back then) did have a way of "making it all come out sort of even.")

John