Twelve Mormon Homes : Twelve Mormon homes visited in succession on a journey through Utah to Arizona.

Twelve Mormon Homes, page 087

Great was Helen's disappointment; but after a time many of her little trees threw up fresh shoots. Shortly after, too, one of the brethren, who had invested all his savings in the purchase and transportation of ten thousand young fruit-trees, divided the few dozen of choice varieties, which he had been able to save from the grasshoppers, among the families, and Helen secured some which she nursed and petted as in other days she had tended her roses and geraniums. No one had money to repay the gardener for his treasures, but they gave him bullets, axes, flour,-very little of that,- nails; anything of which they could spare a part, and almost everybody bought a few. I asked Mr. - whether thev had ever been maltreated by the Indians in consequence of living outside the fort. Helen was greatly affrighted once, he said, but that was all. He had made his dwelling as secure as he could with bolts and bars, and bought a heavy watch-dog. Indians often came to beg, but they behaved well, as he and the dog were always on the premises. One day, however, he was forced to go to the canon to be absent all day. Helen felt so timid that she called Tiger inside the house and shut him up in the bedroom. Noonday came, and she had forgotten her terrors, when a malevolent-looking Indian came boldly into the kitchen. He had probably watched th e h ouse, and supposed the dog gone as well as the man. He asked for bread. She gave him some biscuit and four ounces of flour,-all she had to give,-but he threw it down and demanded more, working himself up .on her refusal until he felt angry enough to take aim at her with his