^he Cumberland Mountains 



been a Yankee he would likely have visited every 

 weed in the land. And again, do you not remem- 

 ber that Christ told his disciples to "consider 

 the lilies how they grow/ and compared their 

 beauty with Solomon in all his glory? Now, 

 whose advice am I to take, yours or Christ's? 

 Christ says, 'Consider the lilies/ You say, 

 'Don't consider them. It is n't worth while for 

 any strong-minded man/ " 



This evidently satisfied him, and he acknowl- 

 edged that he had never thought of blossoms 

 in that way before. He repeated again and 

 again that I must be a very strong-minded man, 

 and admitted that no doubt I was fully justified 

 in picking up blossoms. He then told me that 

 although the war was over, walking across the 

 Cumberland Mountains still was far from safe 

 on account of small bands of guerrillas who were 

 in hiding along the roads, and earnestly entreated 

 me to turn back and not to think of walking so 

 far as the Gulf of Mexico until the country be- 

 came quiet and orderly once more. 



I replied that I had no fear, that I had but 



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