Excerpt from Gourds and Brains
The author of this book was born on a farm near Tompkinsville, Kentucky, in the midst of the Pennyroyal section of the state. (The native people usually call it "Penny Rile.") He had but little chance to attend school in early life, but studied morning, noon and night, reading history and committing speeches to memory. At the age of twenty-one, he went to Nashville, Tennessee, where he attended college. Worked o...
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