. Life and deeds of William Herrick, hermit of Minnehaha Falls; a tale of the wild West in early days; a true story;. attle, mak-ing me herd boy, without a mount. Being bare-foot and having a herd ground that comprisedany amount of raw prairie land, my feet becamevery sore looking after my unruly charges. SoI conceived the idea of using a pet steer for amount and after a few lessons he took the mattervery philosophically. But T was doomed to a sudden downfall. Theriding wore out my pants and my mother settingout to mend ihcm after I had gone to bed dis-covered sticking lo the legs a thick coat
. Life and deeds of William Herrick, hermit of Minnehaha Falls; a tale of the wild West in early days; a true story;. attle, mak-ing me herd boy, without a mount. Being bare-foot and having a herd ground that comprisedany amount of raw prairie land, my feet becamevery sore looking after my unruly charges. SoI conceived the idea of using a pet steer for amount and after a few lessons he took the mattervery philosophically. But T was doomed to a sudden downfall. Theriding wore out my pants and my mother settingout to mend ihcm after I had gone to bed dis-covered sticking lo the legs a thick coating of consequence wa- that 1 received first a vig-orous questioning and then a terrible whipping4 OF Minnehaha. fnun ni\- ^tep father. As this was not the firstheating- I had received from him for trivial of-fences, for whenever I was at hand he used totake exercise on me two and three times a day,and seeing we could never hope to agree, I looking- for some chance to get awayfrom home. Many a time I was sent supperlessto bed and so while he grew richer I grew poor-er both in body and THE OLD ROUND TOWER AT FORT SNELLING. Built in 1820. Was the point of land allack by theIndians in their warfare against the soldiers sta-tioned there. The piece of wall to the right shows apart of the old wall that entirely surrounded thewhole foit. Another ran from the left side of thetower, thus completely shutting in the point of landbetween the juncture of the Minnesota and Missis-sippi rivers. It was in these walls that many Indianswere hung, among them being the terrible ChiefMedicine Bottle who had taken the scalps of 37 whitemen. CIIAPTKR TO WAR. lUii my turn was to come at last. The CivilWar was on and I asked the privilege of enlist-inj:;-. lie not consenting, I threatened to rtin awayand go south to Johnnie Reh. As he was a rankAbolitionist this had the effect of bringing himto terms, though I could see that it cut him I left home feeling as
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