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AROUND THF 01 n AP1V\ fHAID^^ brought his bride back to the try so well that they were rarely
rKlVV/^JMLf 1111^ XJl^XJ /\IViTl Vi/I I AliV Indian country, and the family bewildered or lost, and while they
"I love It, I love It, were very friendly and gave good might disappoint by being a long
And who shall dare
aid through many years to the time on the road, yet they were
To chide me for loving „,• • r -^Lf , • . • ...
The Old Arm Chair." Mission. faithful in staying with the road
By having three or four wagons to the end.
TWENi¥=FIVE YEARS AMONfi THE INDIANS, ^^•^p^^^ ^^s^*^--' "^^" ^^^'•^ -^^ ''\ 'tfZJ:' 'i'""''^
• a steep place coming down, and a man; he had all the time there was
Never-Before-Told Leather Stocking Tales in a Mis- very short distance to where the going, and what he did not get
sionary's Life Among the Comanches and Apaches. bank rose again, the rear wagons done today, he felt assured there
By the Rev. W. w. Carithers, D.D.
going down gave great help to the would be a tomorrow and he could
THE FREIGHTER.
across a creek where the crossing team in the push they gave to the work at it then if he felt hke it.
The freighter's province begins seemed to me to be especially dan- front wagons going up the other and so they did not undertake too
. .u . J r u •, J gerous I asked him if he had ever bank, and often this would allow large a day's work, and frequently
at the outer end of the railroad, s'^'""^' ^ «tbK.eu mm ii ne naa ever > j,.;,,^, „,„„., ^v,„ . A '
. . been across that place, and he re- the team to pull the wagons out their drives were shortened by the
His business is taking goods ^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^.^^ ^tien the load would have been an fact that water would not be availbrought
by the railroad and dis- j,g ^^^ j^^ ^ ^^g^^^ ^^.^j^^ bringing impossible one if it had all been on able at every point where it might
tributing them to remote points, g^^^g ^^^.^ P^^.^ j^jj^^^ ^^^^ ^ ^^ one large wagon. In case the team be they could camp, for universal-
His outfit consists of three or fou^ p^j.^ gin, that came to one bank, could not pull the load, the ar- ^Y they wanted to camp beside
wagons drawn by six or eight ani- ^^^ camped there at night. They rangement allowed the driver to some stream that had timber growmals,
usually mules, sometimes ^^^^^ ^jj ^j^^ ^^^^ ^^^ .^^getting cut off one or two wagons, and in& on its banks. This gave them
oxen. The wagons are fastened ^^^^^^ Several of the wagons that after pulling the lightened load fuel and water and usually the
together by chains, the tongues of ^p^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^ gathered up and out on the level he could go back grass was more luxuriant in the
the hind wagon being sawed off ^j^^y ^^^ ^j^^j^, j^^^^ brought up for the other ones, and bring them valleys. It was a law of the freightshort
so that the wagons are ^^ ^j^^ ^,^^^ ^j^^j. ^^ exceeding- out and couple them on again. er that when he came to a stream
coupled near together. At a dis- jy ^ard day's work they camped One curious feature was that the '" ^^^ &^^r,mg he would pull across
tance it looks like some kind of a ^^e next night on the other bank teams soon learned to regard the ^^^ ^^'"^^"^ ^^^°'^ ^^ '=^'"Pe