. Bill Nye's history of the United States. en went who hadbeen looking a long time for some good place togo to. Leaving their wives with ill-concealedrelief they started away through a country filledwith death, to reach a country they knew not of. MORE DIFFICULTIES STRAIGHTENED OUT. 231 Some died en roide, others were hanged, and stillothers became the heads of new families. Somecame back and carried water for their wives towash clothing for their neighbors. It was a long hard trip then across the of the authors friends at the age of thirteenyears drove a little band of cows from th
. Bill Nye's history of the United States. en went who hadbeen looking a long time for some good place togo to. Leaving their wives with ill-concealedrelief they started away through a country filledwith death, to reach a country they knew not of. MORE DIFFICULTIES STRAIGHTENED OUT. 231 Some died en roide, others were hanged, and stillothers became the heads of new families. Somecame back and carried water for their wives towash clothing for their neighbors. It was a long hard trip then across the of the authors friends at the age of thirteenyears drove a little band of cows from the Stateof Indiana to Sacramento. He says he would notdo it again for anything. He is now a man, andowns a large prune-orchard in California, and peo-ple tell him he is getting too stout, and that heought to exercise more, and that he ought to walkevery day several miles ; but he shakes his head,and says, No, I will not walk any to-day, andpossibly not to-morrow or the day following. Donot come to me and refer totaking a walk: I have tried. SOME CAME BACK AND CARRIED WATER FOR THEIR WIVES TO WASH CLOTHING. 232 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. that. Possibly you take me for a dromedary;but you are wrong. I am a fat man, and maydie suddenly some day while lacing up my shoes,but when I go anywhere I ride. When he got to Sacramento, where gold wassaid to be so plentiful, he was glad to wash dishesfor his board, and he went and hired himself outto a citizen of that country, and he sent him intothe fields for to feed swine, and he would fain havefilled his system with the California peaches whichthe swine did eat, and he began to be in want, andno man gave unto him, and if he had spent hissubstance in riotous living, he said, it would havebeen different. About thirty years after that he arose and wentunto his father, and carried his dinner with him,also a government bond and a new suit of raimentfor the old gentleman. I do not know what we should learn from this. CHAPTER XXIII. THE WEBST
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