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Show 54 NATIONAL WAGON ROAD GUIDE. ho~ever, all were on foot, or had crossed on the other 'vagons.e, ·except one young lady' from Ohio' as we a f ter-wards ~ learned. It was an ox team tl t · ' l e eamster on horse-hac~, and as frequently happens in crossing a dee· and k rappid stream, the cattle sway from th e propepr t· rac ' the wag. on was soon in deep water' that ran 1. nto It, and rose h1gher and higher .. . The young lady, occupying a back seat, to prevent ~e1!ti~ g her feet, raised them up~n the seat in front ,. but still the water would keep coming up Qnd . t' . ' a JUS as Jt commenced running over the seat on which were her feet-the fore end of the 'vagon still descending-it occurred to her' that the ~ff~k of the seat was yet a little SHE DID'NT WET HER FEET .. NATIONAL WAGON ROAD GUIDE. 55 higher than the seat itself, so she at once moved her feet there, and yet soon felt her troubles increasing, for the water would keep coming up, and did, till it ran four inches deep over the seat on which she was Ritting. Just at this unfortunate moment for her, we fOund it, with many others, impossible to suppress a hearty laugh at her truly picturesque position, and moistened condition; which being observed by her, sh'e very triumphantly, if not indignantly, exclaimed, as the wagon rose from the water : "Laugh now, do laugh l I know I ha'nt wet my feet!" SAND STORM OF THE HU}IBOLDT. We had been eighty-one days upon the plains; we had reached the I-Iumboldt river, and day after day had we been following its tortuous oourse, along its banks; or traversing almost interminable sage plains. We had encamped much earlier than usual, upon an exceedingly hot day; not a breath of air was stirring, and we were reposing as best we could, under the shade of tents and wagons. Our barometer was hanging in its usual place, upon the perpen.dieular tent pole. One of our men lying upon his back in the tent, with his eyes fixed upon the barometer, remarked: " From the first of my seeing the troublesome thing to the present, I have never before en the mercury rise or fall ; but within the last twenty minutes, it has fallen and risen and fallen again, more than half an inch." I •• |