and good bed and a good sister Mary Smith to
wait on one like a kind mother, and my room is the
council house of the fort. The emigrating brethren
call upon me by day and the Sunset brethren in
the evening and we talk together and council
upon the things of the Kingdom. and I am as hap-
py as any old bachelor can be and I think rather
more so, for when I kneel down to pray I remember
that I once did have some wives and children in Utah and think I still have whose prayers ascend
up to gGod for me. When I return from a journey
the little boys and girls of the fort run to me to
shake hands with me and are as glad to see me
as though I was their father, and if the little
fellows have any difficulty they run to me to settle
it for them thinking that Bro Allen can make
everything right. There is another strange feat-
ure springing up through this country. I find a
crop of fine plump little boys from 10 days to a
year old bearing the name of Wilford. I myself
am not the father of any of them, but am the
and good bed and a good sister Mary Smith to
wait on one like a kind mother, and my room is the
council house of the fort. The emigrating brethren
call upon me by day and the Sunset brethren in
the evening and we talk together and council
upon the things of the Kingdom. And I am as happy as any old bachelor can be and I think rather
more so, for when I kneel down to pray I remember
that I once did have some wives and children in
Utah and think I still have whose prayers ascend
up to gGod for one. When I return from a journey
the little boys and girls of the fort run to me to
shake hands with me and are as glad to see me
as though I was their father, and if the little
fellows have any difficulty they run to me to settle
it for them thinking that Bro Allen can make
everything right. There is another strange feature springing up through this country. I find a
crop of fine plump little boys from 10 days to a
year old bearing the name of Wilford. I myself
am not the father of any of them, but am the