The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-05-28

cruelty that she was nearly dead. This
was too much to bear from one so I'M
! grateful, and she resolved to eIope into
the woods, and live apart from all man
kind.
''She had Travelled a good two days
journey when she came in sight Of a
lengthy and wide pool which was fed by
many springs, and bordered by tall,
bending reeds, and the view of this body
OF water, backed by deep woods all round,
appeared SO pleasing that she chose level
place near its edge for her resting place.
Then she unstrapped her hamper and sat
down 80 make her plans. After awhile
she turned out the things she had brought
in order to see what could be done by her.
There was wedge-like ak which could
also be used as an adZe, there were two
hoes, handy Basoko bill-hook, a couple
of small nets, a ladle, half-a- dozen
small gourds fuu Of grains, a cooking
pot. some small fish-knlves, a bunch of
finder, couple OF fire sticks, short
stick of sugar cane, two banana bulbs, a
few beads, iron bangles and tiny copper
balls. AS she looked over all these things,
she smiled with satisfaction and thought
she would manage well through. She
then went into the pool a little way and
looked searchingly in for time. and she
smiled again, as If to say better and
BETTER
'eNow with her ak she cut a hoe
handle, and in short time it was ready
Tor use. She then went to the pool-side
and commenced to make quite a large
round hole. She labored at this until
the hole was as deep and wide as her own
height; then she piastered the bottom
evenly with the mud from the pool
bank, and after that she made a great
fire. and throughout the night that fol-
lowed, after a few winks of sleep, she
would rise and throw on more fuel.
When the next day dawned, after break
! ing her fast with a few grains baked in
her pot, she swept out all the fire from
the well and wherever crack appeared
in the baked bottom she plastered it up
carefully-and she also plastered the
sides all round smoothly-and again she
made great fire and left it to burn all
day.
"WhiIe the fire was baking the we'll
hard, she hid her hamper among cIump
OF reeds, and explored her neighborhood
During her wanderings she found path
leading northward, and she noted it. She
also discovered many nuts, sweet red
berries, some round. others oval, and the
fruit which is delight to the elephants;
and loading herself with as many OF these
articles as she could carry, she returned
to the side of her well, sat down and re-
freshed herself. The last work of the day
was to take out the fire, plaster up the
cracks In the bottom and sides, and re-
make the fire as great as ever. Her bed
she made not far from it, with her axe by
her side.
ssThe first thing next morning she de-
termined to follow the road she had
found, and when the sun was well-nigh
the middle of the sky, she came in view
of banana grove, whereupon she in
stantlY retreated little and hid herself.
When darkness had well set she rose and
penetrating the grove, cut down large
bunch of bananas, with which she hur-
ried back along the road. When she
came to stick she had laid across the
path she knew she was not far from the
pool, and she remained there until it was
sufficiently light to find her way to the
we'll.
SPY the time she had arrived at her
well it was in a perfect state, sound and
well baked as her cooking pot. After
half filling it with water, she roasted
few bananas, and made a contented meal
from them. Then taking her pot she
boiled some bananas and with these made
batter. She now emptied the pot,
smeared the bottom and sides of it thickly
with this sticky batter, and then tying
vine round the pot she let it down into
the pond. AS soon as it touched the
ground, 10, the minnoWs hocked greedily
into the vessel to feed on the batter. And
on Izoka suddenly drawing it up she
brought several score of mlnnoWS, the
spawn OF catfish, some OF the young of
the bearded fish, which grow to such an
immense size in our waters. The min
nows she took out and dried to serve as
food, but the young of the cat and
bearded fish she dropped into her well.
She next dug a little ditch from the well
to the pool, and after making a strong
and close netting of cane splinters across
the mouth OF the ditch, she made another
narrow ditch to let a thin rillet of spring
water supply the well with fresh water.
Every day she spent little time in
building p hut, in the cosy place sur
rounded by bush, which had only one
opening; then she would go and work
little at a garden, wherein she had planted
the sugar cane, which had been cut into
the three parts, and the two banana bulbs,
and had soWed her millet, and her sesa-
mum, and yellow corn she had brought
in the gourds, and every day she carefully
fed her fish in the we'll. But there were
three things she missed most in her lone
linesS and these were the cries of an in
fant, the proud cluck of the hen after she
lays an egg, and the bleating of kid at
her threshold. This made her think that
she might replace them by something
else, andshe meditated long upon what
it might be.
Conserving that there were number
ground squirrels about, she thought of
snares to catch them. She accordingly
made loops of slender but strong vines
near the roots of the trees, and across
their narrow tracks in the woods. And
she succeeded at last in catching pair.
With other vines rubbed over with bird
lime she caught some young parrots and
wagtails, whose wing feathers she chopped
off with her bill-hook. And one day
while out gathering nuts and berries for
her birds she came across a nest of the
pelican wherein were some eggs, and
these she resolved to watch until they
were Matched, when she would take and
rear them. She had found full occupation