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Show TO SALT LAKE VALLEY. 81 the " Sister " was also the wife of her husband, and I was for the first time under the roof of a polygamist. Both lived in the same house, but their duties appeared to be very distinct. The English woman appeared to be the Mary of the household, and the Dane the Martha. I had no ac count of their conjugal history, but am very much inclined to think that the former was the last espoused. The Dane appeared more like a woman hired to work in the garden, and her labor was certainly worth more than the cost of her subsistence und clothing. The vegetables being ready I asked the bill, when the Dane looked as if she was somewhat doubtful as to the capacity of my pocket- book, and hesitated, but the " Sister" thought it had better be left to the gen tleman to pay what he pleased. I insisted on the amount being named, and then appreciated the diplomacy of the lib eral (?) party, for I should have never offered so small a sum. After drinking a glass of buttermilk I started, and as we did so the English " Sister" expressed the hope that an of ficer who was with me might have his eyes opened and be come a bright shining light in the Church of Latter Day Saints " and who knows but such may be the case ! " said she. In my conversation she seemed to feel no interest. She appeared to be the happiest duplicate wife I ever saw. Her Danish colleague was by no means so jovial, and though she appeared resigned to her fate, looked by no means con tented or happy. Running by the village on to the Weber River, where it empties, is a clear, beautiful stream, fitly named Silver Creek, and but a short distance above we entered the mouth of a cafion through which the stream flows, and from it the canon takes its name. It was narrow from the first, and the tall hills on either side rose to a greater altitude than those along Echo Canon, to which I referred in my last, but they are nowhere abrupt and precipitate. The base of the hills ran almost to the banks of the stream,; the road was cut in the slope on the western side, and in order to make it wide enough for a single wagon, in some places it was necessary to cut a perpendicular bank of ten |