Excerpt from Weeds and Flowers: A Collection of Sketches of East Tennessee, Its Scenery, Folk Lore and PeopleStates and put East Tennessee conspicuously on the map. On one subject, however, the writers were of one heart and mind, viz x the pleasant experiences of a childhood spent in rustic and untutored innocence among the mountains 'and valleys of East Tennessee, and these scenes and experiences, after the lapse of years, they at tempt to re¿ect in the sketches which follow. They may appear crude to the reader, yet they are gratefully presented as tokens of love to the folk-lore of the good old days that are no more.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.