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Show FORTY YEARS AMONG THE INDIANS. 177 get all hands mechanics, cooks, and all, to gather them in after night. While working in this manner the Indians were not allowed to help, but at the same time the most of these potatoes were expected to be eaten by the Indians. Many other things as foolish were being done daily. I kept a memorandum, intending to report to the agent according to my agreement with him. About the time Mr. Basor, Mr. Morgan and myself were ready to start in, the first severe snow storm of the season comnenced. We had quite a hard trip getting into the valley. CHAPTER XXVIII. My Discharge by the Government Agent I Prepare, in Mid- Winter, to Again Visit the Indians Bradley Sessions Accompanies me Our Terrible Journey and Sufferings Reception at the Agency. ON ARRIVING in Salt Lake, in company with Mr. Morgan, the agency blacksmith, who had been dis-charged by the clerk because he refused to put long, sharp corks on the agent's team, which would have cut them while floundering through deep snow- drifts such as we would encounter on the road which any experi-enced man knows is correct. But the clerk, like many others, felt that a little authority must of necessity make him wise, thought differently. On reporting the clerk to the agent, we were considerably surprised at his answer to us. He told us that the clerk suited him, and if we did not like him we could stay away from the agency. I told him that Tom Layton was a fraud on honesty and good |