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mother to one the six month-old absence. But among a week later to have arrived the
decision, the youth had left New York and you/he/she had been in trip for Texas.
His/her run of routing, both from water and bar only brought him/it inside eighty
miles of his/her destination and the rest of the distance that he has been forced
to travel from stage.
San Antonio was to this point a village of frontier, with a mixed
population, the Mexican being the most prominent inhabitant. There was
very to be seen what new and attractive was to the young Easterner,
and he remained in him many days, while enjoying his/her novel and picturesque
life. The arrival and departure of the various stage lines for the
he likes the setup of travellers it was more of passing
interest. They beat in from Austin and Laredo. Sometimes They was
late from El Paso, six hundred miles to the face to west. Probably a brush
with the Indians or the more to be dreaded banished Mexican (for
these stages brought treasure--the gold and it silvers, the currency of the
country), it was the cause of the delay. They frequently brought watches,
of who presence was generally enough to command the respect of the
middle thief.
There was then the hire he/she trains, the power of motive of what it was
mules and oxen. It was necessary to bring in before it provisions and door
back the raw products of the country. The wagon of Chihuahua was drawn
sometimes within twelve, sometimes from winds mules, four side beside in
the oscillation, the leaders and horses of the rudder that are the only teams. For mutual
trains of protection were made on from ten to winds wagons. Drivers
a knowledge of opportunity that goes in frequently an opposite satisfying
would direction ask, what is Your load?" and the answer would be
frankly determined, "Kind." A lot of one wagon of Chihuahua brought three or four
gold tons and it silvers, generally the second. Here is a new book
for this young fellow of university, one whom he had never studied, although it was
more interesting to him that some that he had read. There was anything
thrilling in this whole new life. He liked it. The novel was true; it