Our Only Purchasers Were People From Sun River Crossing, And
A Few Ranches That Are Some Distance From The Post,
And it was soon
discovered that anything at all nice was passed by them, so we became
sharp - bunching the
Worthless with the good - and that worked
beautifully and things sold fast.
These moves are of the greatest importance to army officers, and many
times the change of station is a mere nothing in comparison to the
refitting of a house, something that is never taken into consideration
when the pay of the Army is under discussion. The regiment has been on
the frontier ten years, and everything that we had that was at all
nice had been sent up from St. Paul at great expense, or purchased in
Helena at an exorbitant price. All those things have been disposed of
for almost nothing, and when the regiment reaches Fort Snelling, where
larger quarters have to be furnished for an almost city life, the
officers will be at great expense. Why I am bothering about Snelling I
fail to see, as we are not going there, and I certainly have enough
troubles of my Own to think about.
This very morning, Mrs. Ames, of Sun River Crossing, who now owns dear
Rollo, came up to ask me to show her how to drive him! Just think of
that! She talked as though she had been deceived - that it was my duty
to show her the trick by which I had managed to control the horse,
and, naturally, it would be a delightful pleasure to me to be allowed
to drive him once more, and so on.
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