Faye Is Having The Rear Half Padded With
Straw And Canvas On The Sides And Bottom, And The High Top Will Be Of
Canvas Drawn Over "Bows," In True Emigrant Fashion.
Our tent will be
folded to form a seat and placed in the back, upon which I can sit and
look out through the round opening and gossip with the mules that will
be attached to the wag-on back of me.
In the front half will be packed
all of our camp furniture and things, the knockdown bed, mess-chest,
two little stoves (one for cooking), the bedding which will be tightly
rolled in canvas and strapped, and so on. Cagey will sit by the
driver. There is not one spring in the wagon, but even without, I will
be more comfortable than with Mrs. Hayden and three small children.
They can have the ambulance to themselves perhaps, and will have all
the room. I thought of Billie, too. He can be picketed all the time in
the wagon, but imagine the little fellow's misery in an ambulance with
three restless children for six or eight hours each day!
Hal is with us - in fact, I can hardly get away from the poor dog, he
is so afraid of being separated from me again. When we got to the
station at Pittsburg he was there with Cagey, and it took only one
quick glance to see that he was a heart-broken, spirit-broken dog. Not
one spark was left of the fire that made the old Hal try to pull me
through an immense plate-glass mirror, in a hotel at Jackson,
Mississippi, to fight his own reflection (the time the strange man
offered one hundred and fifty dollars for him), and certainly he was
not the hound that whipped the big bulldog at Monroe, Louisiana, two
years ago.
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