Excerpt from A Knight of the Cumberland, And, "Hell-Fer-Sartain" Igh noon of aicrisp October day, sunshine flooding the earth with the warmth and light of old wine and, going single-file up through the jagged gap that the dripping of water has worn down through the Cumberland Mountains from crest to valley-level, a, gray horse and two big mules, a man and two young girls. On the gray horse, I led the tor tuous way. After me came my small sister - and after her and like her, mule back, rode the Blight - dressed as she would be for a gallop in Central Park or to ride a hunter in a horse show. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.