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Show moonlight night and we traveled on until many of us could travel no longer, without finding 1 any water. It was near midnight, so we pulled our carts out of the road and laid our tired bodies down to rest till daylight should dawn, when we started again on our journey, having had neither supper nor breakfast, Hud rnofct of the company having had no water since leaving the spring before mentioned. It was near mid-day when we reached the spring spoken spok-en of as being four miles distant, and it was nearer thirty miles. When we arrived there we were tired and hungry, so we stayed there until the next morning. We started on and came to a patch of wild peas, where we stopped and all hands went to gathering tjiem. We cooked and ate until we' were satisfied. With the exception of being a little strong, they were very palatable. Of course they were smaller than our common garden peas, but not having'had Written for The Uniov. HANDCART EXPERIENCE. j Continued. Although it looked unreasonable in mo, to expect to catch a sheep cn the prairie, yet x started out, and at the same time I offered up a.fervent prayer to my Heavenly Father and asked lJim to assist me, and the Lord really henrd my prayer, and the consequence was, it any kind of vegetables for some time, they tasted so gocd. wo ate too freely of them and they produced pro-duced a disease bordering an epidemic, epi-demic, which made us still weaker. The next night we came to a large spring which ran down to a low place and formed a small lake, on which was a large flock of ducks. I took my old gun and started off for a duck. The grass was live or six inches high and I moved slowly along to get a good position to shoot, without scaring tho game, and just as I was leady to crack away at the ducks,- a huge rattle snake bobbed up right in front of me ready to spring on me. This was not an enviable position, and in order to save myself I shot the snake instead of the ducks. The report of the gun scared the ducks away, and that ended ray duck shooting. I returned to camp, to find it all in commotion, and; the cry of all were "snakes," and we I found the whole country alive with them. To he continued. was not long before I was back to my carl, having the sheep with me, and it proved to be a very fair mutton. Thus the Lord heard and answered my prayer and gave us the meat we so much needed, and I gave thanks to Him for this great blessing to us in this time of need. As our provisions were not of the kind to give us proper strt ngth to perform our arduous labor, many of us became very weak, and the consequence was that some would get behind, but at evening the willing ones would go and assist them to camp. We were more or less scattered, on this account, and some would be away from camp all night. The Lord blessed me with good health, but my wife's health about this time, began to fail, she having a nuising babe, under three months old when we started. As my wife and I were all we had to pull our cart, her failing health made it exceedingly ex-ceedingly hard for us indeed. This v is the year that the Tikes Peak Mines were dsccvered, at what is now known as thai city of Denver, in Colorado, and a great many adventurers were rushing for the mines. A company of them passed 113 at this time, being well provided with horses and rifles to hunt with. They were ahead of us and they killed a very large buffalo. They took one quarter of it and covered up the three quarters carefully with the hide, and put up a notice that read "This is for the hand-carts." We found it in a very good condition and it was divided out, giving us from one to two pounds each. Although we were in the midst of buffalo, this was the only good mess of fresh meat of this kind that we had obtained, for, as I have before stated, we had neither horses nor other means to obtain it. Here the little book that our captain had called a guide over the plains, proved to be very unreliable unrelia-ble and at times led us astray. In . proof of this, one day we had traveled trav-eled about twenty miles and come to a beautiful spring of water, about four o'clock in the afternoon, and tho Captain said we need not take any water witnus, as we would came to another spring four miles farther on, where we would camp for tho night As we had two small children, we took a bottle of water with us. It was a lovely t |