. Highways and byways of the South. Returning from the Hen-house that Is, cutting brush on land where the timber hadbeen recently cleared off. They were piling up therubbish and burning it. Two of the smaller boyshad manufactured hickory whistles, and piped on those I20 Highways and Byways of the South more than they sprouted. Clearing new ground wasa common occupation at this season among thefarmers, and the crackHng brush heaps seemed likealtar fires of spring — sacrificial offerings to the deitiesof nature to secure an abundant harvest. Blue smoke-drifts arose from many a field, and the who
. Highways and byways of the South. Returning from the Hen-house that Is, cutting brush on land where the timber hadbeen recently cleared off. They were piling up therubbish and burning it. Two of the smaller boyshad manufactured hickory whistles, and piped on those I20 Highways and Byways of the South more than they sprouted. Clearing new ground wasa common occupation at this season among thefarmers, and the crackHng brush heaps seemed likealtar fires of spring — sacrificial offerings to the deitiesof nature to secure an abundant harvest. Blue smoke-drifts arose from many a field, and the whole quietevening landscape was veiled in gauzy haze. IN THE TENNESSEE MOUNTAINS. T HE easternportion ofTennessee isa wilderness of forestand tortuous valleysand rude ridges, andwhere these ridges liftthemselves highest, onthe extreme bordersof the state, they areknown as the GreatSmoky 1 journeyedand found a stopping-place at a large, white,two-story house onWolf Creek. Thehouse stood beside anold highway that wentA Drink at the Spring through the mountain valleys from Tennessee to North Carolina, and it hadbeen a tavern previous to the building of the railroad. 121 122 Highways and Byways of the South In those old days the thoroughfare which now seemedso quiet was enlivened with constant traffic, and thedwellers along the way could rarely look out on it andnot see some passing team or horseback rider.
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