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Show Wri'tcn for Thk Union. HANDCART EXPERIENCE Continued. We had in our company some old experienced Fishermen who had heard a good deal about the Platte river and the fish that were in it, and before we arrived there they would tell what they would do at fishing when they arrived there, as they were well prepared with hooks and lines, but when they started to fish, they found, to their sorrow, that they could not caicn a nsn. nether there wero any fish there or not 1 do not know; but this I do know, our brethren were sorely disappointed and hung down their heads in sorrow, for at this time our whole living was but a pint of flour and a small amont of bacon, which was nllowf d to each person for a day's rations, and they expected to have some fish to help out the food supply. One night when we camped a company of those apostates camped camp-ed near us and some of them came ovei to talk with us. I got into conversation with one man who I was quite reasomible in his cou-'yersation. cou-'yersation. He said he had -ii been in Salt Lake City two years, ' and ; when he arrived there he had' not I got a dollar, and he had a wife ; and family to provide for. lie I had worked for Brigham Young but was now on his way back. Although they said wo could; not make a living there, during the two years cf his sojourn in the valleys he had provided for his family and now had a wagon and a yoke of oxen and provisions enough en-ough to carry him and his family back over a 1000 miles journey. I asked him if he had ever known that the gospel was true? He said yes and he had that testimony yet. I told him to be sure and not speak against the Lord nor his people, and also be sure not to forget to pray and to keep that testimony always; and the day would come when he would return again to Zion. A very few years after I saw hin in Salt Lake City, and he told me my words had been the cause of his coming back as lie had kept them continually on his mind. To be continued. |