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next day. My father rode through and back, examining the stage of the
water and the fund of the river before driving the wagon in. Taking then
one of the oldest boys behind him on the mule to illuminate the
wagon, he drove the oxen in the river. Nearby the I mediate the water it was
I lavish enough to reach the box of wagon, but with cackles and a free
question of the gad, we expedited I cross in safety. One of the wheel
oxen, a black steer that us called "Strike-eye" you/they could be rides, and me
the state to wide apart legs in to ford, laving my feet burnt by the sun in the fresh water.
The cows were driven on next, the dogs to swim and finally, purse
and baggage, we was in Texas.
We reached soon the River of Colorado in autumn, where we stopped there and
select cotton for many months, doing rather some money, and
Near Christmas reached our ending destination on the River in San Antonio,
where we took on earth and we built a house. That was at a happy home; the
country was new and provided our simple lacks; we had milk and honey,
and, although the tree of fig tree was absent, along the river it grew without end
quantity of grape of grape of mustang. To that duration the valley in San Antonio was
mainly a country of bovine livestock, and as the boys of our family old it grew
enough the charm of a horse and saddle it was too strongly to be
withstood to. My two older brothers first went, but my father and my mother
brave efforts and facts to hold me to house, and it did so until me I was
sixteen. I suppose that it is natural for every boy of country to be
spellbound with of the other occupation that that al which it is him
cross. In my first teen-ager I always thought, that or I should like you/he/she
you drive six horses to a stage or employed in a shop, and if I could have
reached both those tall heights, to that age that I would have
asked to any more. Then my father, rather than to see to follow me in the
footsteps of mine oldest brothers, a situation assured me in a village
you store far some winds miles. The merchant was an individual