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Show TO WANSHIP SETTLEMENT. 77 " Well don't know this is narrow, and if you go under here, then you know exactly where your wagon has gone down." " I see I can't get much out of you Do you intend to cross here ? " " You bet." There was more in the fellow's manner and tone of voice that was amusing, than in what he said, and he caused one of the ladies to laugh away a headache. We crossed without difficulty, but when our laconic stranger attempted it, in the same place, his loaded wagons sank deep, and the first stuck fast, when we had a good laugh at his expense, while he was doubling teams to pull it out. On the Weber I beheld still more familiar and more beau tiful sights than I observed on Bear River. In addition to fields of wheat, barley and oats which grew in great luxuri ance, the vegetable gardens at the station- house were filled with all the table vegetables cultivated in the same, and more southern latitudes in the States. The green lettuce and the onion- tops appeared more beautiful as they grew there because of the contrast with the wild rugged hills and bluffs close by, and the hills and bluffs appeared more wild and sublime because of the contrast with the tender cultivat ed plants at their base. The Weber is a stream abounding with trout, and some of them larger than in the streams near Fort Bridger, to which I referred in my last. Though we are supposed to have started on the march I must tell the reader of my trout- fishing the day before. It was in the Weber where I indulged in that sport for the first time in my life others of the command had caught them in several places further east. I had heard of trout- fishing from early boyhood, but had never before been in a country where they are caught, and I longed to indulge in the sport. So during the afternoon we were in camp near the stream I prepared my tackle and went alone to try my luck. I had scarcely got my line into the water when it was grabbed with all the dash which |