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Show common every-day. dinner, and to this was added what looked to me like a very nice yellow cake; and this I noticed, some . were eating with meat and vegatables and put-jug put-jug butter on it, and I had heard in the old country how extravagant extrava-gant the American people were in some things and I certainly thought this was the height of American extravagance in very deed, and they of conrse passed it to me. I said nothing but thought in my own mind a piece of it would be very nice, indeed, for a finish to a good meal; accordingly, when I had eaten eat-en all I needed, except, as I supposed, sup-posed, a small piece of this nice cake, I then took a piece of it; but lo, my surprise 1 for what I supposed was a beautiful . cake, when I tasted, it was rough and course enough to be made out of saw dust, and then I saw at glance, it needed both butter and meal and all the good things you could get to help it on its downward road. On enquiring afterwards of my wife wnat they called that sawdust saw-dust affair, she informed me it was corn dodger, of yellow corn, and you can rest assured that I certainly dodged it for a long- " while after that, but as time rolled on I found that I could eat a little of it, but am not a lover of it to this day. Before our first month was up, we recevied a letter from Philadelphia stating that some of our brethern and sisters were unable un-able to get work, and a few were sick, asking us to assist them. We drew what money we had . already earned and eheorf uly sent it to them, for the assistance of those in need. . We continued to work on till 2 months was up and we became quite anxious to see some of our own faith and meet with them, w therefore obtained permission to go to Philadelphia, on Saturday evening and back on Monday morning, and we meet with the saints in a sacrament meeting and had a feast in very deed and gave most of our wages to assist thost in need, and returned to our labors, la-bors, feeling well paid for our trouble trou-ble and means. We staid there till harvest, I then went to harvesting harvest-ing for other parties and received good wages and staid in that pari till August, and having saved $80.-00 $80.-00 we concluded to go to St. Louis and get that much nearer to tht laud of Zion, but on arriving at Philadelphia, it was considered best to stay there till spring, as it was understood tha . at that tim there was considerable sickness in and around St. Louis. Not being able to obtain employment ther we went down to Delaware and there found work, but soon took sick with the chills and fever and wo then returned to Philadelphia, and were both very sick. A YOUTH'S EXI'EillEXCE. Continued. On our first railroad ride in j America, the engine broke down and we were hindered some time, but arrived at our destination that evening and the next morning we started to work. My wife in the house to cook and do house work and myielf on "the farm, and although al-though some of the work was entirely en-tirely new to us we gave good satisfaction sat-isfaction as wo were determined to do, if it was in our power. At our first dinner there was meat and vegatables, fruit, butter and everything every-thing necessary to make a good many hardships, as a good many of the saints around there were in similar circumstances. When I was able to work, I obtained employment em-ployment in the gas pipe works which was all new to me and in my weak condition it went very hard wilh me. In June wo went to Sunbury in Northumberland County on the banks of the Sns-quohannah Sns-quohannah River, and there we worked, both of us, as before, for $15.00 a month for a year, and on the 23 of July 1857 our first child w is born, at Sunbury, whom we called Esther Ann. Khondo. To continued m YOUTH'S EXPERIENCE. (Continued from first page.) rented a room in a house where some of the saints were living and we both being sick and not able to wait on each other, our money soon went and we suffered a good deal that winter, and when ray wife could hardly move around and I could not gtt ut of bed she would bind shoes and anything else she could get to do, and thus earned our scanty living as she was at that time suffering with the chills and fever. At one time she was in bed with a very heavy chill, shaking the very room we were in, and elder John Newton com,e into the room and she asked him to administer ad-minister to her which he did; and the chill stopped immediately and she started to gain strength, bu; was very weak and I was gaining a little so that I was soon so fat recovered that I could walk aroum At this time we were very shor, of the comforts of life and endured |
