The Lehi sun. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1913-1949, 1921-06-09
CHAPTER I.

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Which Describes the Journey Of sam.
son Henry Trayior and Hls Wife and
Their Two Children and Their Dog
sambo Through the Adirondack VIII |
derness In 1891 on Their Way to the
Land Of Observation-Disclosures II De-
scribes the soaplne Of the BrIm-
steads.
In the early summer of 1881 Sam
son Traylor and his wife, Sarah, and
two children left their old home near
the village OF vergennes, Vermont,
and began their travels toward the
setting sun with four chairs, a bread
board and rolling-pln, Feather bed
and blankets, a small looking glass a
skillet, an AK, a pack basket with a
pad OF sole leather on the same,
water pail, box OF dishes, n tub OF
salt pork, rifle, teapot, sack. OF
meal, sundry small provisions and
violin, In double wagon drawn, by
oxen. II Is pleasure to note that
they had a violin and were not dis
posed to part with It. The reader must
not overlook Its full historic slgnlh-
canoe. The stern, uncompromislng
spirit of the Puritan had left the
house of the Yankee before a violin
could enter II. Humor and the love
OF play had preceded and cleared
way for II. Where there was a fiddle
there were cheerful hearts. young
black shepherd dog with tawny points
and the name Of Sambo followed the
wagon.
II we had been ut the Congrega-
tional church ON Sunday we might
have heard the minister saying to
Samson, after the service, that II was
hard to understand why the happiest
family In the parish and the most be-
loved should be leaving It's ancestral
home TO go to far, new country OF
which little was known. We might also
have heard Samson answer:
I -It's awful easy to be happy here.
We slide along In the same old groove,
that our fathers travelled, from Yer
igennes to Paradise. We work and
play and 10 to meetin' and put shin
lpiaster In the box and grow old and
marrow and stingy and mean and go
mp TO glory and are turned into saints
md angels. Maybe that's the best
thing that could happen to us, but
Sarah and ! kind o. thought we'd try
a new starting place and another route
20 heaven"
Sarah and Sampson had been raised
nm adfofnlno faru.a t,st o,,t % A..
village. He had had little schooling.
but his mind was active and we'll In
clined. Sarah had prosperous rela-
tives In Boston and had had the ad-
vantage OF years schooling In that
city. She was comedy girl OF
taste and refinement unusual IN the
place and time OF hei birth. Many
weil-favored youths had sought her
hand, but. better than others she
liked the big, masterful, good-natured,
humorous Samson, crude as he was.
Naturally In her hands his timber had
undergone some planning and smooth
ing and his thoughts had been gently
led into new and pleasant ways.
Let us take look at them as they
slowly leave the village Of their birth.
The wagon Is covered with tent cloth
drawn over hickory arches They are
aitting on D seat overlooking the oxen
In the wagon front. Tears are stream.
ing down the face OF the woman. The
mans head Is bent. His elbows are
resting on his knees; the hickory
handle OF his OK whip lies across his
lap. the lash at his feet He seems to
be looking down at his boots. into the
tops OF which his trousers have been
folded. He Is a rugged, blond, bearded
man with kindly blue eyes and a
rather prominent nose. There Is a
striking expression OF power In the
head and shoulders Of Samson Traylor.
The breadth OF his back. the size OF
his wrists and hands. the color OF
his face betoken man OF great
strength, This thoughtful. sorrowful,
attitude IL the only evidence OF emo
tion which he betrayA In a few
sninutes he begins to whistle a lively
tune.
Tho boy JoSlah-familIarly called
yoe-sifs beside his mother. He Is
= slender. sweet-faeed lad. He Il
looking up wistfully at HIS mother
TIE little girl Befsey sits between him
and her father.
That evening they stopped at the
HOUSE, Of an old friend some miles
% the rusty road to the north.
"Here We are-goln' west" Sam
DOn shouted to the man az the door
'tsp.