Show OUR PIONEERS mrs olsen lybbert from last week we could not dance round the camp fire after song and braer in the evening we might have done so but the members of our company were so tired and hungry that they were glad of the rest when a person died on the plains they dug du a hole and burled buried the person it hurt me terribly to hear of this but I 1 usually kept away from the scene of the burial A young girl girt of about 17 walked beside ide me she had been ill and feeble but this day she was happy by accident a stampede of or cattle started she waa was instantly killed I 1 saw her burled buried I 1 vaas as so ery that I 1 een men prayed in my ale sleep C p I 1 was af ald aid least trie cone and shoot down doun the guard when I 1 undertook to cross the plains I 1 resell resolved ed to hie hiie a peaceable agree 1 I ble spirit from the be anning to the end of our journey I 1 did not want A ant to ba be rebellious or quarrelsome in any way I 1 prayed that I 1 might not succumb I 1 to the weakness Ae akness that beset the ancient ven israelites I 1 was cry humble and prayer fJ 1 did not petition god in ain I 1 can truly say I 1 was not a iry cry once during the trip awalt I 1 va vt el acry step of f the entire journey Journe except one forenoon when I 1 was ery very sick with a fearful pain in my U one thing I 1 caa can say abom the plains we star starved ed all of us shame shamefully part ot of the time A good many oung men died I 1 think it woe was lack of food I 1 was already used to hunger in norway therefore 7 could stand it better across the plains I 1 arrived a foot in salt lake city and went v ent to bed without any sup per next morning several persons came cne to our camp with food A ainan gave me a cup of hot gruel A man took me to bishop Il hunters place they needed me to help them thern do their work I 1 was not hapak at all in uth utah at first I 1 was wn a stranger and did not know the language I 1 knew but the names of common objects such as chair table cup book but I 1 could no connect these words into sentences in the eyes of my new acquaintances I 1 was as only a very poor immigrant garl my iffy experience in the factory in norway proved n great blessing bleis ng to me when I 1 carne came to utah indeed it did here elenore as was destitute of clothing and many ot of them did not knew know hov how to make it one day in passing brother bonella Ilo nells house I 1 I 1 in a salt lake city I 1 inquired tor for work vork he ile waa was an expert weaker said he to me rue I 1 you hive run the automatic loom in the factory in norway why can you jou not run a i hand loom lie ile showed me how in a very few moments he bonvin ed m ml that 1 could work vork a hand i loom swift and true I 1 worked for him jal JI manner summer and fall continued next week |