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Show BIOGRAPHY OF MYRON TANNER. 15 taxed in His frequent murmurings to crossing the mountains. George A. finallv aroused the latter's impatience. George A. then, in a calm and brotherly manner, recited the selfishness of the man who was bent on keeping his saddle new until he entered the valleys, whatever hardship it entailed on others. Brother "This statement aroused the man's anger. He became excited and furious when he of his own selfishness. now saw He himself confronted with the results ran to his wagon, got the new saddle, back to where Brother George A. was, threw it on the ground and exclaimed, 'I hope to God I never see it again.' George A. ran pointed to the saddle and said, 'Of what benefit is such action now? You compelled us to get along the best way we could and put us to great inconvenience in order to keep your saddle new until you valleys, and now having more than your just propor reached the tion of the aid sent us, you grow angry, -throw your saddle down, which shows your folly and exposes you to the ridicule of the en If some of the others had had their way, a rebuke tire camp.' to the man for his selfishness would have taken place long before Brother George A. had the happy faculty of waiting till the right time to say the right thing. As a boy, 1 frequently had the opportunity to observe both the wisdom uf his words and the value of his example. "We reached Salt Lake, as 1 now recollect, in October, 1849. During that fall and early winter 1 worked for George A. hauling wood to make his family comfortable. Our diet consisted of bread We had brought through a sack of coffee with us and coffee. In the forepart of that winter, which lasted most of the winter. this. taken sick with rheumatism from which he suffered We were obliged to turn form. very greatly as it was in an acute that we sometimes intense so was him on a sheet and his suffering my father was to changing him \one WIth I remained two but with exceptions, another. For six months, Mv recollection now him every night until four in the morning. first of April in the or the March of last the about is that he died occupied half an hour in frIJl poition . epring of '50. EXPERIENCES IN CALIFORNIA. "Not long after my father's death, I made preparations to go |
