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tlie Dyer farm ; then I should presently 

 come within sight of the Kelly house, about 

 which the fighting was of the hottest ; and 

 from there I should do well to go to the Snod- 

 grass Hill tower and the Snodgrass house. 

 To do as much as that would 'require little 

 walking, and at the same time I should have 

 seen a good share of what was best worth 

 a visitor's notice. I thanked him, and fol- 

 lowed his advice. 



The left-hand road, of which my informant 

 had spoken, ran between the forest — mostly 

 of tall oaks and long-leaved pines — and the 

 grassy Dyer field. Here it was possible to 

 keep in the shade, and life was compara- 

 tively easy ; so that I felt no stirrings of 

 envious desire when two gentlemen, whom 

 I recognized as having been among my fel- 

 low-passengers from Chattanooga, came up 

 behind me in a carriage with a pair of horses 

 and a driver. As they overtook me, and 

 while I was wondering where they could 

 have procured so luxurious a turnout, since 

 I had discovered no sign of a public con- 

 veyance or a livery stable, the driver reined 

 in his horses, and the older of the gentlemen 

 put out his head to ask, " Were you in the 



