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Show hay was then stacked around and oh top of the pile of wood and brush, and the whole was called hay. I found out that these men had a contract to furnish a certain amount of hay for the U. S. Government, and the Jiay was.stacked in tire manner man-ner above stated, and the whole measured as soon as the stack was completed. Thus these men who so despised the Mormons for not being true to the Government, showed tfceir loyalty loy-alty to this same Government, that they made such great preten tions to be true to, and to defend against these rebelious Mormons, but these pretended honest citizens Written for Thb Cmoi. HANDCART EXPERIENCE. Continued. . At the mail .station refered to, a man came to our trainband said he wanted to hire some men to mow hay. I agreed to stay, and he let us have a very little provisons for my family and went out a few miles and worked a few days, and here I helped to put up the coarsest hay I ever saw put in a stack. I had helped in other .places to put up flags, and rushes, and some very large canes for hay; but here I help- to- xAx t d w juctttto nwood-trejesJb y. the dozen, and the trees, limbs, and all 'from one to two feet through were piled up 8 or 10 feet high. The ot this great and glorious Government Govern-ment would rob the U.S. at every -opportunity. This is the kind of example that they set before strangers stran-gers who had just left the land of their birth, and came to what they had been taught was "The land of the free and the home of the brave." . . Where every citizen was an, inter- ested party and should always 'be on hand to protect the property of ' this great Government, as he would his own personal property, but alas! alas! here we found' ourselves sur-- sur-- -rauoJ-la cv.eryJ33afl.fcy a .e.t CeL men without a particle of honest principle in them, and we called to mind the saying: "Oh consistancy, thou art a jewel." V7e will now follow the handcart train who traveled on that day to I Hams Fork, and this same sister I Shanks spoken of being unable to 1 keep up with the carts was left behind, be-hind, and the next day was found mostly eat up by wolves. Whether she died or was killed by the wolves we never knew. Her husband who was very weak at the time also died before reaching the S, L. Valley. At Hams Fork a time of rejoicing rejoic-ing was had, as at that place they were met with provisions from S. L City, and the people were fed. Although Al-though a few had got down to such a weak state of body that they never recovered, but lingered on for a time and passed away and were numbered with those who have laid their bodies down for the Gospel sake. Before leaving the handcarts one thing I wish to state. We learned each others character and formed ties of friendship that will last forever, for-ever, and saw the hand of the Lord made manifest for our especial benefit bene-fit in many ways on this hard and tiresome journey over the plains, and when cast down with hunger, fatigue and all look dark and dreary then that kind spirit that none but God can give comforted us in our deep distress. We continued to look forward to that land for which we were toiling hard to reach, and we were blest above many of our companions on this journey, as the Lord provided for us in the manner before refered to for which we truly thank him. To be continued |