He Could Have Taken It When We Came Had
He Been Willing To Turn Anyone Out.
It seems to me that I am waiting
for a house about half the time, yet when anyone wants our house it
is taken at once!
For a few days we are with Lieutenant and Mrs. Fiske. They gave us an
elegant dinner last evening. Miss Burt and her brother came up from
Bozeman. This evening we dine with Major and Mrs. Gillespie of the
cavalry. He is in command of the post - and tomorrow we will dine with
Captain and Mrs. Spencer. And so it will go on, probably, until
everyone has entertained us in some delightful manner, as this is the
custom in the Army when there are newcomers in the garrison. I am so
sorry that these courtesies cannot be returned for a long time - until
we get really settled, and then how I shall miss Hang! How I am to do
without him I do not quite see.
FORT ELLIS, MONTANA TERRITORY,
July, 1884.
THIS post is in a most dilapidated condition, and it - also the country
about - looks as though it had been the scene of a fierce bombardment.
And bombarded we certainly have been - by a terrific hailstorm that
made us feel for a time that our very lives were in danger. The day
had been excessively warm, with brilliant sunshine until about three
o'clock, when dark clouds were seen to be coming up over the Bozeman
Valley, and everyone said that perhaps at last we would have the rain
that was so much needed, I have been in so many frightful storms that
came from innocent-looking clouds, that now I am suspicious of
anything of the kind that looks at all threatening.
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