Just Imagine What The
Suffering Will Be, To Go From This Dry Climate To The Humidity Of The
South, And From Cool, Thick-Walled Adobe Buildings To Hot, Glary Tents
In The Midst Of Summer Heat!
We will reach Holly Springs about the
Fourth of July.
Faye's allowance for baggage hardly carries more than
trunks and a few chests of house linen and silver, so we are taking
very few things with us. It is better to give them away than to pay
for their transportation such a long distance.
Both horses have been sold and beautiful King has gone. The young man
who bought him was a stranger here, and knew absolutely nothing about
the horse except what some one in Las Animas had told him. He rode him
around the yard only once, and then jumping down, pulled from his
pocket a fat roll of bills, counted off the amount for horse, saddle,
and bridle, and then, without saying one word more than a curt "good
morning," he mounted the horse again and rode out of the yard and
away. I saw the whole transaction from a window - saw it as well as
hot, blinding tears would permit. Faye thinks the man might have been
a fugitive and wanted a fast horse to get him out of the country. We
learned not long ago, you know, that King had been an Indian race pony
owned by a half-breed named Bent. He sent word from Camp Supply that I
was welcome to the horse if I could ride him!
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