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Show and thus the days and weeks pass by until we find him without shoes, his feet a mass of sores and tied up in rags to keep them off the ground, and thus he travels until he is all-together all-together unlike the man he was when he started on the plains. At last in looking around camp Hailed to find him, and nobody can tell of his whereabouts, and what, become of him we know not, but one thing we do know that his life was spent in doing good as long as his strength lasted and whatever his end was his reward will be great in the kingdom of Heaven, ; . ' : ' ' To be con tinned. Written for T11 Union. HANDCART EXPERIENCE Continued. . Men came around, and really shed tears, arid begged for a little soup, but we could not give them any as we did not have enough for all. When night came, the usual prayer meeting was neglected and the people looked just what they were downcast and sad in very deed, with no krhd word for each other or their children. The next morning I was called on by the captain cap-tain to kill one of the work oxen1 for the people to eat. It was quite poor, but as fast as we took off the hide a piece of it was cut loose, and some one would grab it and roast and eat it, and everything was eat up clean, but now came a very difficult task: I was to divide the beef, which was far more bone than meat, so that each one would have' an equal portion, por-tion, but I done the best I could and gave general satisfaction in this regard.' re-gard.' . . : Vhen we started on the plains about 50 of our company were Scandinavians; Scan-dinavians; whose language was strange to the English speaking people and ' the language of; the English speaking,.;; people were strange to them', but one could easily easi-ly tell that we were all of the same faith. ' Among the Scandinavians -was a man between 30 and 40 years of age, well built, on whom nature had lavished many good qualities. He was full of life and vigor, doing all in his power to make himself agreeable agree-able and .useful, so let us follow him. ... At first we see him pulling his cart, and as soon as his cart is landed land-ed over a stream or up a hill, he hastens back to assist others who are needing aid. We soon see him foot sore and "weary but still he perseveres per-severes in every way that his strength will allow. A few days later we see him with the tops of his shoes cut to ease his feet which are now festered and raw, as he "was not I use to traveling in this way, and he is no longer able to pull his cart. Do you ask "does he ride in the wagon? oh, no, although none more deserving than he, but we see him rise early in the morning, take his small cake and a bottle of water, and a stick and start out and hobble along as long as he can, rest awhile and then start on again, and would get to camp as best he can. When he did not get to camp some kind soul would go back and meet him, |