. As seen from the ranks; a boy in the civil war . No more delicious morselwas ever placed on a table than the fineroasted opossum of Tennessee; it has some-what the quality of the erstwhile popularroast pig of New England, with an addedrichness and the piquancy of a certain gameyflavor. One night, after our return from one of ourhunting excursions, we found a lively interestin camp in regard to a line of fires which werevisible in the distance. Sonie thought it A WINTER IN TENNESSEE 109 must be a camp of guerillas, while othersthought it might be a scouting band of ourown cavalry, which had g
. As seen from the ranks; a boy in the civil war . No more delicious morselwas ever placed on a table than the fineroasted opossum of Tennessee; it has some-what the quality of the erstwhile popularroast pig of New England, with an addedrichness and the piquancy of a certain gameyflavor. One night, after our return from one of ourhunting excursions, we found a lively interestin camp in regard to a line of fires which werevisible in the distance. Sonie thought it A WINTER IN TENNESSEE 109 must be a camp of guerillas, while othersthought it might be a scouting band of ourown cavalry, which had gone into camp were fires which we had kindled, butthe night guard seemed so interested in thespectacle that we crept quietly to bed, for wehad nt the heart to break in upon their en-joyment by admitting that we had had any-thing to do with it. Our winter here was a pleasant interval ofwar experience, and during the time we werereinforced by the recovery and return ofsome who had been taken to hospitals onaccount of sickness and CHAPTER XI OVER THE CUMBERLAND MOUNTAINS The Imp in the Attic—-Leaving the Winter Camp—Hardening to the Work—Last Camp in MiddleTennessee—Climbing the Mountain Range—Ri-valry of Regiments—Nick-a-jack Cave and itsBlood-Curdling Traditions. FLORENCE PERCY, in an exquisite littlepoem, represents Memory as a drollfellow dwelling in the upper story and havingcharge of all the facts and figures that areplaced in his keeping. She calls this keeperof the psychological storehouse of past events The Imp in the Attic. Some of the valu-ables placed in his charge are lost, and someare only found after long searching; and it isto be noted also that the controlling Imp ofeach attic has idiosyncrasies quite his own. Now that these events of the war have re-ceded into the far past and can only be OVER THE CUMBERLAND MOUNTAINS III viewed from the beginning of another cen-tury, it will not surprise the reader that myImp has tired of presenti
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