Asd Nov 7 [18]84 13 [18]84 Father. If I said to Bro Wagstaff that I had not yet learnt to travel without purse or script I did not want to infer that I was without money on the contrary I told him I had means And I dont see anything wrong in the remark, for I have not got faith that the best man living can travel in this country to day without purse or scripts. In the early days of the church when an Elder arrived a collection was made for him a suit of clothes and there were plenty of Saints where he could get food, but to day it is a very few pennies that one receives from the Saints for they are so poor and are so few and far betwen that we have to buy a good deal of our food & pay for our lodgings. I have heard men preach from the stand that they would sooner send a son of theirs out without pe a dollar