. History of Missouri in words of one syllable . rth. He said he went to the hill, on the road from 132 History of Alissottri, Man-ches-ter to Pal-my-ra, in the State of NewYork, where the an-gel had told him he would findthem. But the Old Boy and his Imps werethere to wage war with him for the plates. This was hard on Joe, to say the least. But hethought he had the best right to the plates; so he cast off his coat, and thenby his lone self went forthe horde of those whocame to the scratch withhorns and hoofs, and madethem lick the dust. The ref-er-ee, Joesangel, then gave the fightto him, wit
. History of Missouri in words of one syllable . rth. He said he went to the hill, on the road from 132 History of Alissottri, Man-ches-ter to Pal-my-ra, in the State of NewYork, where the an-gel had told him he would findthem. But the Old Boy and his Imps werethere to wage war with him for the plates. This was hard on Joe, to say the least. But hethought he had the best right to the plates; so he cast off his coat, and thenby his lone self went forthe horde of those whocame to the scratch withhorns and hoofs, and madethem lick the dust. The ref-er-ee, Joesangel, then gave the fightto him, with the gold were six inch-esthick and eight long, withmarks on them as you seeon this page. Joe then went to workof the Book of Mor-mon, forsuch, said he, were the plates. When the book wasdone and in print Joe went in search of a place inwhich to build a ci-ty for the Saints he had said all who had faith in him were saints, and,strange as it may seem, he found quite a lot of folkswho thought they would make tip-top THE BOOK OF MOR-MON. to make Eng-lish Joe SmitJis Paradise. 133 Joe came to Mis-sou-ri. Joe was not a knew, when he got to the State, if there was afair spot on earth fit for a Par-a-dise, Mis-sou-ri wasthat spot. He went to In-de-pen-dence, Jack-son Coun-ty,and the Lord told him. Here is Zi-on, here build theNew Je-ru-sa-lem. He at once sped hence to thecamp where his saints had made halt at Kirk-land,O-hi-o, and brought them to Mis-sou-ri. They laid claim to some thou-sand acres of land,and the small-fry saints built homes and did thework, while the head saints saw that the stores andgood things of life were in good hands, for they hadcare of them. No one had a right to call thingstheir own ; what fruit and grain there was fromyear to year was put in one great place, knownas the Lords store-house. Joe and the headsaints had a good time and fed on the fat of theland. Still they were not as bad a lot yet as theycame to be. Joe w
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