The 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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