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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ...Again grasping his hand, and shaking it, this time, with a right good will, I exclaimed: I'm delighted to see you, Bible; and to see you here--true to the old flag. Ye mought hev know'd thet. I know'd ye war right, ef ye war a Whig. But ye wants ter git under kiver. I knows a old 'ooman yere--slie's secesh way up ter the yeres, an' her fixins hain't nothin' loike whot ye gits in York, but I reckon ef I ax her, she'll take ye in. Any place will do till the General returns--I have letters to him. The omnibus man went in quest of my trunk, and in a short time, accompanied by my new-found friend, I was on my way to the house of the Secession lady. Before going thither I will make the reader somewhat acquainted with my companion, in the hope that what I shall say of him may lead the public to think better of the whole edition of Southern Bibles, who, though badly bound, and sadly deficient in the way of lettering and u embellishment, have about as much homely truth and genuine worth as the more gilded things found in higher latitudes. Late in November, 1850, as I was journeying on horseback from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to Louisville, Kentucky, I was overtaken by a storm, just at night-fall, and forced to ask shelter at a small farm-house near the little town of Richmond, in Bedford County, Tennessee. The house stood in a sm#ll clearing, a short distance from the highway, and was one story high, of hewn logs nicely chinked and whitewashed, with a projecting roof, a broad, open piazza, and an enormous brick chimney-stack protruding at either gable. As I rode up to it, the farmer came out to meet me. He was dressed in homespun, and had a wiry, athletic frame, a dark, sun-browned complexion, an open, manly face, and a frank, cordial manner...

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