where we were gowing than from a desire to
hinder us. A brother came to see us with news
that my brother Hiram had passed on west
the day before with a company about fifty
miles north of us and saying "he has a fine company,
and they all look mighty pert." I asked him to
accompany us to Missouri, he replied "I cannot."
He went and stayed with the spies at a tavern
over night, who said they had followed us three
hundred miles on purpose to take some advan-
tage of us.
~ Saturday
Saturday 31st.
In the morning this same brother came to me
and said, "I whould be mighty glad to go with
you, but my business is such I cannot; will
a hundred dollars do you any good." I replied
"Yes it will, for we are short of money" He ame-
diately mounted his horse and rode towards Springfield, and within an hour after the camp
had started, he returned and said to me "I
am mighty sorry I cannot go with you
here is a hundred dollars, and if I had, had
a few days notice I whould halve got more."
At noon we halted for dinner. A man apparently
drunk, came to the camp and said he had
a large farm fourty cows, a little way ahead
and if we whould go there, he whould give
us all we wanted to eat and drink, feed our
where we were gowing than from a desire to
hinder us. A brother came to see us with news
that my brother Hiram had passed on west
the day before with a company about fifty
miles north of us and saying "he has a fine company,
and they all look mighty pert." I asked him to
accompany us to Missouri, he replied "I cannot."
He went and stayed with the spies at a tavern
over night, who said they had followed us three
hundred miles on purpose to take some advantage of us.
~ Saturday
Saturday 31st.
In the morning this same brother came to me
and said, "I whould be mighty glad to go with
you, but my business is such I cannot; will
a hundred dollars do you any good." I replied
"Yes it will, for we are short of money" He amediately mounted his horse and rode towards
Springfield, and within an hour after the camp
had started, he returned and said to me "I
am mighty sorry I cannot go with you
here is a hundred dollars, and if I had, had
a few days notice I whould halve got more."
At noon we halted for dinner. A man apparently
drunk, came to the camp and said he had
a large farm fourty cows, a little way ahead
and if we whould go there, he whould give
us all we wanted to eat and drink, feed our
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