Thanks for the visual, Jon! That's about what I figured it would look like, and it's a darn good thing it DIDN'T when my teacher handed it to me or I would have never dared attempt it :)

I don't feel too bad, since that's more or less what I'm attempting to sound like. ("Attempting" being the operative word here.) For some reason, I don't have trouble with the triplets -- they just seem to fit right in. Maybe those pesky longer notes are just plain wrong, and shouldn't be that long? If not, I'm sure I'll hear all about it at my lesson Wednesday :D

I couldn't tell you the original source, but it's out of a fiddle instruction book, and my teacher just xeroxed a page for me. (We decided to take a break from Americana for a while.)

Many, many thanks for all of ya'll's input and attempting to tackle this!