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Show 576 day, to hitch up and take us over to Houserock, and he did. " I will never forget that drive. Ran into a nest of flying ants; they followed us for five miles. We got to Houserock, and Mr. Stanton asked him if he had a team he could take us to Kanab. " He said he had a team of ponies that he was breaking." " Mr. Stanton said. ' Well, take us, and we will finish the breaking." " He objected at first, but finally agreed to, and the next morning we started up the mountain for Kanab, taking turns riding. On the top of the mountain there the jack rabbits was so thick you could about kick them. The cook picked up a clod there and knocked one over and jerked out his jack knife and then the left hind foot. "' Now,' he says, ' we won't have any more trouble.' [ R. 1408.] " We had a darky cook with us, and Richards that was drowned was a darky, too. " We stopped at noon for lunch beside a water hole there that the cattle had been using, and while we thought the Colorado was muddy, dirty, this was mud. " I tried to strain some through my handkerchief, we was so thirsty, -- but my handkerchief was too dirty to get it clear anyhow, and we had to go without our water. R. 1408. |