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Show ft Wri'ten for The Union. HANDCART EXPERIENCE. Continued. We were now between two and three hundred miles on our journey and our very hard work gave us keen appetites and we had used up a good deal more of our provisions than the distance we had traveled justified, and although al-though our provisions was rationed out to us, yet we had our minds set that we would make the journey in much less time than we had provisions for, as we had 70 pounds of flour for each person, which was one pound a day for ten weeks. When we would receive four days rations, some would eat it in two days and then plead for moro, and we all know that no man with a soul in him could deny them, so they would get a little more, and in all this we had a little merriment merri-ment We had with us some young men who had worked on farms in ' England and were large over grown fellows, with keen appetites, who would eat the most of iheir flour as a rule in half the time, and then they would say they would make starch to stick their ribs together, to-gether, but this soon ended, as it became too serious to be fun any longer, foi we all had to make our rations hold out its time, and thus we began to suffer, by the time we were between three and four hundred miles on our journey and we could not hunt as every one had to pull his cart, and we had four persons to a cart, and myself and wife, two small children, child-ren, one only three months old, and the other under two years of age, when we started on the plains, thus we had only two of us to pull our cart, and we had a very hard time to pull it and our two children, child-ren, but the Lord blessed us thus far remarkably, and now when our provisions was very short as we were traveling along I saw a sheep some distance from the road. To be continued. |