The Red Cloud chief., 1888-04-06

| five hundred come in q band at once. So,
es it tuck a good many Jokes Of steers to
| haul the provisions an beddin' fer SO many,
| President Young had q revelation from the
| Lord that each one was to be fixed out with
q hand-cart and haul most Of his pervisiOns
! an beddin' through with him cs he come.
| Some was fer doubtin' the wisdom of this,
I hev heard, but the Lords prophet sent
| word through his servant that nOthin' could
harm a hair of our heads if we trusted in
the Lord, an had the kind Of faith we should
hev. Well, l s'pose what he said was true
es gospel. an the fault was mans some
way, an not Gods revelation, but the jour-
| ney was hard, hard es death. an was death
| to lots Of US, an I'm bodily shore nOthin'
never could be harder!" And he shook his
gray head and stared mistily o moment at
the floor. well" he went ON. ''abOut that
timeone of the brethren come a preachin'
! down through Tennessee, an me an wife
| an some more was turned from our fOllies,
an sot out fer Zion. My wife Catherine
didn't want to 60, but the whole batch Of us
was nigh wild to git out OF the wilderness
| of sin about us and gether to the Zion Of
| the Lord here into the West, whar we was
tOlc, l s'pOse es a figger Of speech, all was
! peace an es if it was d flOwin' with milk an
honey.
Nv c had had those children then, q little
darter an son hat we'd buried, an one
Twin girlchild who's q wife of Elder
Shoots in Salt Lake now. 1t was pine
blank hard a gettin' away from them two
little graves of Our'n. We may believe. We
knowed that eS long as time lasted we'd
never see EN- no more, an l thought Cath
crimes heart d break that mOrnin' we left,
an mebby it did! mebby it did,! fer she
went upon the hill back of the house whar
them little graves was under a tree, an
l seed her STAN awhile loOkin' down
through the valley whar most Of our kin
folks an friends lived, then l seed 'er turn
round an fall acrost them little graves of
Our'n an lay there es if the life had gone
clean out of 'er. She laid SO long there /
was afeerd fer Ter, an went up the hill to
bring 'er back, fer the wagon was awaitin'
to take us to the river landin' fer the boat.
When l got there she was alayin' atwixt
the graves with a arm round each little
mound. an a cryin' an mOanin' turrible.
When / got her up she fell down agin, an
kissed each little grave. an put q pinch OF
moss from each One into her bosom, an
come astumblin' down the hill, fer she
seemed blind, IN got into the wagon an
we driv away. 1t was hard, but l guessI
didn't feel it es much es her. fer l was res
erlute an determined an filled with the
sperrit of getherin' to Zion.
"Well. it was Il long and tejus journey,
from Tennessee to whar we jined the i'm
migrant band of brethren in Iowa. but it
was cs nothin' to the travclin' after that.
l fairly SILVER wen l think OF it. The tuIr RI
bic. turriblc tircdness. the heat, an san an
thirst, an draggin' feet, the never, never
endin' miles an miles of t~rceless. trackless
wilderness. the glare of the sun. en- after
while the cold. an mountings, an freezin'
an death. an hOvcrin' savagcs. it all comes
back aforc me now an strikes ne nigh
dumb" and the old man leaned forward up
on his knees and shook his head. staring at
the floor as if he saw some fearful picture
there.
I'VE built the hanG-carts in Iowa at a
camp whar we met he began again, IAN
that was whar we lost; it tuck to the mid
die of summer aforc we wa, ready to start.
We had ben tole by the elders down in
Tennessee, an them acomin' from other
countries an places had ben tOlc
the same, we found, that the carts
an tents an truck would all be
Already for US at the mcetin' place
in Iowa Wen we got there: but nothin' had
been done. Most Ov us had sent money On
ahead, err gin it to the elders to be sent.
an some gin nigh to all they had. but it had
gone into President YOung's fund at Salt
Lake BY mistake, IN so we had to git
things ready the bes' way we could. Eff we
could "a started right away we might hev