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Show FORTY YEARS AMONG THE INDIANS. 12^ Brother Brigham said if we had set fire to the whole outfit and run off by the light of it he would never have found fault. So the trial ended and I went home feeling pretty well. I was asked many years after this trial by a son- in-law of one of my accusers if Brother Brigham did not favor me in the trial because we had been partial and used others' goods, leaving Brother Brigham's alone. I replied, " No, sir; Brother Brigham had no goods whatever at Devil's Gate. Neither had his name ever showed on box or bale, therefore he could not have favored us on that account. He decided as he did simply because he was just and right. Whether we were all naturally honest or not, we were honest this trip, at least; for there was hardly a day but what starvation stared us in the face, and we were not much inclined to pilfer dry goods anyway." I presented my recommend to the quorum which now received me into their fellowship. After this some few came to me asking about goods in rather an accus-ing manner. I referred them to Brother Brigham. So far and wide had the stories gone, that many took advan-tage of them. One old lady, an emigrant, who went to live in Provo, played a sharp game, but was found out. She had three daughters who were all married soon after getting in. These young ladies, as is usual with Eng-lish girls, had a nice lot of linen. So when the luggage arrived, in the spring, the old lady came from Provo for the family goods. She, considering her daughters pro-vided for, and being thrifty in her nature and liking to appear well, took her daughters' linen and traded it for furniture. The reader must know that in those days anything from a pumpkin to a petticoat was a legal tender for |