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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. 



