[12] Based on a newspaper story of “Aunt” Sarah Wycoff in the North Carolina Penitentiary.
[13] The title of one of his works.
[14] Struggling with that simple passage—“This is the heir; come, let us kill him”—he rendered it, “This is the hair-comb, let us kill him;” and hence reached his logical interpretation, which is left to the imagination of the reader.
[15] This beautiful character and other proven friends described in these pages measure up to the standard now, as the author sees it and them—yet the coveted ideal rises ever higher as we press on toward the Highest. C. J.
[16] The illustrations by courtesy of Kodakery.
[17] In the mountains of North Carolina.
[18] The title of his most famous poem.
Transcriber’s Notes:
The illustrations have been moved so that they do not break up paragraphs and so that they are next to the text they illustrate.