. Highways and byways of the South. me. The only place I everbeared religion an the gospel preached in their puritywas at the Methodis chuch over to Shelly Rockfive or six year ago. Preacher Brice was thar anhe knowed how to talk, an people wep over thatsermon an they weep over hit yet. They had a greatrejoicin an they prayed an shouted an* eveythinelse an thar was a heap o confessions made. Bedtime comes early among the mountaineers, andwe did not linger long around the fire. Rising-timealso comes early, and in the first gray of the morningsome one entered my apartment and got a gun. WhenI we
. Highways and byways of the South. me. The only place I everbeared religion an the gospel preached in their puritywas at the Methodis chuch over to Shelly Rockfive or six year ago. Preacher Brice was thar anhe knowed how to talk, an people wep over thatsermon an they weep over hit yet. They had a greatrejoicin an they prayed an shouted an* eveythinelse an thar was a heap o confessions made. Bedtime comes early among the mountaineers, andwe did not linger long around the fire. Rising-timealso comes early, and in the first gray of the morningsome one entered my apartment and got a gun. WhenI went out on the porch a half hour later, Andy andthe doctor were just returning from the woods whitherthey had been in quest of some wild turkeys they hadheard gobbling. The turkeys escaped them, but theybrought in a gray squirrel they had shot. Andy saidthe squirrels and turkeys were more plentiful than anyof the other wild varmints of the mountains. Hementioned seeing a bar the previous winter, and he In the Tennessee Mountains 141. Ploughing among the Girdled Chestnuts had recently heard the cry of a painter. Hits Hkea womans cry, said he. Yo hear that in the nightan hit 11 raise the har on yore head. The doctor amplified the list of game by addingturkle doves, possums, and whistlepigs. Thewhistlepigs, or woodchucks as we would call them in theNorth, get very fat in the autumn feeding on chest-nuts. You take em that time of year, explainedthe doctor, and parbile em, and pour off the water,and then salt and pepper em and bile em agin, andafter that bake em and theyre all right. I love aparbiled groundhog, and Ive et a many of you ever eat whistlepig ? I42 Highways and Byways of the South I got to go up over the mountain to-day, saidAndy, to git some roughness — that is, cow-fodderor hay. My cattle aint begun to Hve yet, and theywont begin to Hve for two weeks. The seasons lateand my roughness is clean gone. I found it was a common complaint in the moun-tains that the
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