In tumn I returned to my Sout full of joyous memories. As I recall t visit Nort ty of t cluster about it. It seems to reasures of a neiful my feet, and I took in pleasure and information at every turn. I lived myself into all till a moment; my life ion as ttle insects t croo one brief day. I met many people o my in joyous sympato meet t, and be! the rose.
I spent tumn mont our summer cottage, on a mountain about fourteen miles from tuscumbia. It tone quarry, long since abandoned.
ttle streams ran t from springs in tumbling tried to bar tely covered tone and in places reams. t of tain oaks and splendid evergreens runks like mossy pillars, from tletoe, and persimmon trees, t somet made t glad. In places tretcree to tree, making arbours s. It tangled e afternoon, and to smell t came up from t the close of day.
Our cottage of rougifully situated on top of tain among oaks and pines.
tain s. e lived on t of time--te and played. At t butternut tree, round trees stood so close t I could toucumn blast.
Many visitors came to Fern Quarry. In talk and sport. told stories of ts urkeys t, ;savage troutquot; t, and iest foxes, outted t clever possums and overtaken test deer, until I t t surely tiger, t of tribe be able to stand before ters. quot;to-morroo t; s as t. t in tside our door, and I could feel ters as their improvised beds.
At datling of guns, and tsteps of trode about, promising test luck of tamping of t from to to be off. At last ted, and, as t teeds ters quot;h hark and whoop and wild halloo!”
Later in tions for a barbecue. A fire ttom of a deep icks top, and meat s.
Around tted negroes, driving a made me ables .
le and excitement of preparation its , ting party made its appearance, struggling in by t and ing and dejected--and not a single kill! Every man declared t least one deer, and t t ly t pursue t be aimed, at trigger t a deer in sigunate as ttle boy y soon forgot its disappointment, do to venison, but to a tamer feast of veal and roast pig.
One summer I Fern Quarry. I called y, as I read t to te star on many of my e safe, my teac go tered on or stopped at o eat grass or nibble trees t grerail.
On mornings eacart after breakfast for a ramble in to get lost amid trees and vines, o follo tly s ake a round about way.
e alurned to ttage h.
Sometimes I tle cousins to gat eat t I loved ting for t nutting, and I nut burrs and break ts and s--t s!
At t of tain tcrains errific eps, and Mildred told me in great excitement t a corack. About a mile distant trestle spanning a deep gorge. It to ies and so narro one felt as if one il one day Mildred, Miss Sullivan and I in t finding a path.
Suddenly Mildred pointed tle ;trestle!quot; e it e and grorestle o feel for toe; but I afraid, and got on very il all at once t quot;puff, puff”
from tance.
quot;I see train!quot; cried Mildred, and in anote it rus t breat crain rumbled by, trestle sil I t most difficulty rack. Long after dark age empty; t ing for us.