. Highways and byways of the South. A Woodland Schoolhouse speeches. The scholars numbered twenty-seven andnot much spare space was left in the shack for visitors,yet some contrived to squeeze in along the walls and 146 Highways and Byways of the South the rest peered through the breaks and the add to the attraction of the exercises one moun-taineer brought his fiddle and another a banjo and played some nice music. Of all I saw in my wanderings among the GreatSmokies nothing remains more vivid than the remem-brance of that woodland schoolhouse and of the lastday as described by Andy
. Highways and byways of the South. A Woodland Schoolhouse speeches. The scholars numbered twenty-seven andnot much spare space was left in the shack for visitors,yet some contrived to squeeze in along the walls and 146 Highways and Byways of the South the rest peered through the breaks and the add to the attraction of the exercises one moun-taineer brought his fiddle and another a banjo and played some nice music. Of all I saw in my wanderings among the GreatSmokies nothing remains more vivid than the remem-brance of that woodland schoolhouse and of the lastday as described by Andy Hudnut. How picturesquethat gathering in and about the little building musthave been, and how strikingly the interest manifestedshows the charm that education has for the mountainpeople ! VI THE BIRTHPLACE OF LINCOLN. o N my way tothe Lincolncountry Istopped at a dismallittle place calledGlasgow Junction,and went thence ninemiles out into thecountry to see theMammoth Cave. Abranch railway con-nects the main linewith the cave, butwhile I was at thejunction station, oneof the local inhab-itants accosted meand inveigled me into hiring a team. Having made abargain with me, he went off to his house to hitch upand presently appeared with a dilapidated buggy andan ancient horse garbed in a patched and knotted har- H7 The Entrance to the Mammoth Cave 148 Highways and Byways of the South ness. I think I would have hesitated to trust myselfto the dubious conveyance had I known how full ofrocks and petrified ruts the road was that we were totravel. The Southern custom is to work the roadsin the fdl, and the tracks cut by the wagon wheels inthe winter mud are retained by the clay, which is themost common soil, all through the summer. The region round about the cave is hilly ; but in-stead of watercourses and r
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