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Show so she could pull no longer, .1 told her to hold on behind the cart, which she did until she fell on the ground, exhausted. Written for The Union. HANDCART EXPERIENCE. y Continued. On account of so many snakes, our only show was to take what water we could, and hurry away from the place, leaving the snakes, as they were the Prior Claimants, to enjoy their fine abode in peace. The weather at this time of the year was warm and soon as we stopped stop-ped our carts at night, we would spread down a quilt or blanket and put the little ones on it, in the shade of our carts, that they might get a breath of fresh air, after being under cover in our carts all day. That was what was done at the aforementioned aforemen-tioned place, but soon as the children child-ren were placed on the quilt here came the snakes out from the grass, and crowl oer and around the children, and a scream would ring through the air, first from one and then from another, which made it quite an exciting time indeed. We breathed much more freely when we were away from the grass and snakes, and we were thankful that nobody were harmed by them. The following day we had a long journey without water, and at night we came to a good sized creek. We were all tired and the captain ordered or-dered us to camp before crossing the creek. I saw at a glance that by thus camping, it would give us a cold bath the first thing in the morning morn-ing with wet clothes to travel in. So, true to my John Bull stubbornness, stubborn-ness, I raised an argument in favor of crossing the stream that night, but the captain said the order must be obeyed. So I picked up my wife and sat her on the other side of the creek and then carried our children to her, I then took over our cart. Soon as the captain saw we were over, he rode over and ordered us back, but I told him I would not go back. He said he would fetch some men and take us back. Accordingly According-ly he rode back and while he was trying to get men to help him fetch us back, lo, three or four more carts came over, and this raised a rumpus which finally ended in the whole train moving over to the zionward side of the stream that night. We traveled all the way up the Piatt river, on the north side, as it was too high for us to cross. TJhen we were about opposite Chimney Rock my wife become very weak and had a Yery hard time to get along, and when we camped at night she was quite sick. I done all I could to assist her, and in the morning I tried to get her into one of the wagons to ride, but in this I failed, as the teamsters said they were all full. So we started on to pull our cart. Although the road here was very good, through her being so sick and weak, it was not long before we were behind the train, and when she got |