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mark of inferiority, I suppose, to be fonder 

 of places than of persons, as cats are in- 

 ferior to dogs. But then, on a vacation one 

 goes to see places. And right or wrong, so 

 it was. Kindly as the hotel people had 

 treated me, and none could have been 

 kinder or more efficient, there was no- 

 thing in Pulaski that I left with half so 

 much regret, or have remembered half 

 so often, as this hollow among the hills, 

 wherein a man could look and listen and be 

 quiet, with no thought of anything new or 

 strange, contented for the time with the old 

 thoughts and the old dreams. 



