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Excerpt from To Red River and Beyond
Our first day's journey was a very short one. Horses and mules had to be weaned from the quotidian oats of civilization, and taught to rec oncile themselves to grass and water. The fa, tigues of the journey had to be begun ndaga'a, and then crescendo. A s/brzando movement at the start would have knocked them up in a week.
We, too, had to be weaned. We found this out at the first camping-ground. Instead of ringing for coals and ordering a chop, we had to chop our wood and build our fires and fry our own pork. The streams, which are the Crotons and Cochituates of the prairies, had to make con nection with our temporary houses by wooden pails instead of iron pipes, and we to learn how much easier it is to reach a bell-rope and turn a faucet than to be hewers of wood and drawers of water.
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