![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hawkins or the children stepped in and out over their bodies. The Squire's house was a double log cabin, in a state of decay two or three gaunt hounds lay asleep about the threshold, and lifted their heads sadly whenever Mrs. The district was called the Knobs of East Tennessee, and had a reputation like Nazareth, as far as turning out any good thing was concerned. You would not know that Obedstown stood on the top of a mountain, for there was nothing about the landscape to indicate it-but it did: a mountain that stretched abroad over whole counties, and rose very gradually. The locality was Obedstown, East Tennessee. Squire Hawkins sat upon the pyramid of large blocks, called the stile, in front of his house, contemplating the morning. ![]()
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