Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1872-12-28

threshold at Gila Bend were like Sis'f
only these were the eyes Of a woman
there were the same graceful move
mcnts. with more of self-asscrtion. She
might have been 18. Her hands and
feet were small, and her rich brown
hair, oddly though not unbccomingly
dressed, lay on a forehead white and
pure as that Of a child.
No wonder George was proud of his
wife, and had tried hard to win as such
the barefooted girl whom he found one
day, with her family and some sorry OK
teams, camped near his house on Their
way from Texas to California The
emigrmts were the girls mother, her
stepfather, her sister, brother, aunt,
and the aunt's little girl. Aunt Polly
seemed to be the leading man, for to
her belonged the two best 0X-teams, one
Of which was driven by herself, the
other by the girl, Dorinda. She hired
or bought her niece from the stepfathcr
for this purpose, after she lost her mus-
band by Lightning; and Dora had been
faithful to her task, although nearly
worn out crossing the desert from
Maricopa Wells to Gila Bend. After
George had taken deep look into the
girls eyes, he, dismterestedly, not only
invited the whole family to come into
his house-as far as they would go III
to rest from the long, hard journey,
but the hospitalities extended to the
best the place afforded, for both man
beast,
The Texans, content, apparently were
in no hurry to move on, and George was
in no hurry to have them go. Dora,
Sis. and the ten-ycm-old brother, soon
became warmly attached to him; and
they, with the big dog, Bose, daily
wandered off to the Gila to catch fish,
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