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Show us a little insight to what we might expect when we came to the moun-tians. moun-tians. "We arrived in camp and even four miles had its effect on some of our company, as quite a number were from the English Factories and knew nothing of the hardships they were now starting out to undergo. When we arrived I asked our little Frank, as he was by far the smallest man in the company, to sing the Hand Cart song, which he did, and quite a number joined in the chorus. We stayed one day and was organized, with George Rowley as our Captain. Cap-tain. We had one wagon and two yoke of oxen for the use of the Captain's family, five wagons and ten yoke of cattle to hall part of our provisions, as also to accomodate those who might be sick and some freight, GO carts, 235 souls, about 75 of them were men, the others were women and children. On the 10th of Juno 1859, having rested rest-ed one day we made a regular start for tho plains and traveled 1G miles, and the most of us were tired when we camped at night, and some were already getting foot-sore. Again we asked our little brother Frank to sing the Hand Cart song, but he very reluctantly complied, and I think this was the last time he ever sang it, and there were less who joined in the cliorua than before. be-fore. To be continued. Wri ten for Tkk Union. HANDCART EXPERIENCE. The latter end of May, 1859, we were in Florence, a place situated sit-uated on the banks of the Missouri Iliver, in connection with a number num-ber of Latter-day Saints preparing to cross the plains with the Hand Cart company. We often sang the Hand Cart song. A young man by the name of Frank Pitman took great pleasure in singing that song. Wo would sit arouud our camp fire, and he would sing it for any one who would ask him to, and it being new to roost people, ho was asked to sing it quite often. We were finally provided with our carts and on a lovely afternoon in June we started out with our little all in our carts and traveled out four miles where we were to stop one day to be organized for our journey over the plains. In leaving Florence we had a little steep hill to pull up and this gave |