It Was, According To His
Showing, A New Eden, A Paradise Upon Earth.
He seemed to think that
we might perhaps desire to buy a location, and explained to us how
readily we could make our fortunes.
But he admitted in the course
of his eulogiums that it would be as much as his life was worth to
him to ride out five miles from his own house. In the mean time the
teamsters greased their boots, the soldiers snored, those who were
wet took off their shoes and stockings, hanging them to dry round
the stove, and the Western farmers chewed tobacco in silence, and
ruminated. At such a house all the guests go in to their meals
together. A gong is sounded on a sudden, close behind your ears;
accustomed as you may probably be to the sound, you jump up from
your chair in the agony of the crash, and by the time that you have
collected your thoughts the whole crowd is off in a general stampede
into the eating-room. You may as well join them; if you hesitate as
to feeding with so rough a lot of men, you will have to set down
afterward with the women and children of the family, and your lot
will then be worse. Among such classes in the Western States the
men are always better than the women. The men are dirty and civil,
the women are dirty and uncivil.
On the following day we visited the camp, going out in an ambulance
and returning on horseback.
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