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Show 86 "Good Land! Where did you come from?" "Off the train, " I said, wondering why she was so excited. It turned out that they hadn't received Mama's letter, so didn't know I was truly coming that day. Aunt Jane had just happened to go to the station with her friends to see the train come in. She and Uncle Eli made much of me and Grandma saw that I got acquainted with some new friends to play with. With the exception of her making me chew everything I ate very well, including mush, and even water, I had a glorious week and went home laden with new treasures: a Sears catalog of my own, a little blue box covered with velvet a ring had come in most particularly. My life from then on was divided like B. C. and A. D. : Before Ephraim and After Ephraim. It somewhat made up for my inability to run fast, which put me on the end of every choose-up game in school. In December, when Rachel was ten months old, Mama got a letter from Aunt Jane that Grandma was sick of Pneumonia, and she had better come. They were in a little town at the absolute end of nowhere: Clear-lake, where Aunt Jane was teaching and Grandma had gone to be with her. The Sevier River forms a loose S, with the headwaters in the mountains west of Fishlake (east fork) and just north of the cliffs of Zion Canyon, The Vermillion Cliffs (west fork). The forks join at Kingston and flow north through Sevier County, past Joseph and Richfield. Some sixty miles farther north it makes another turn to go past Delta and ends out in the desert in a pool of mud called Clear lake. Both the pool of mud |