Excerpt from The Contributor, Vol. 16: A Monthly Magazine; Organ of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations of Zion; August 1895 I also noticed a lot Of chickens in the middle Of the earthen floor Of the room; they were picking some food that had been prepared for them in a large tin pan, and they seemed to be quite at home there. On glancing to the right of the room I saw the head of a cow poked over the upper part of her stable door, the lower half of the door being closed. She was evidently looking to see if there was not some thing for her to eat, as well asr the chickens. To the left was a fire place, in which was a fire of peat, and close to it were five or six child ren, poorly clad. My presence was quickly noticed. The children jumped to their feet and stared at me, the women hearing them, turned around and stared also. I made an apology and requested her to inform me what time it was. She gave me the information and I turned to leave, but did not go alone, all the children followed, bare-headed and shoeless. They were very civil and agreeable, walked along the road asking and answering questions quite politely, and I enjoyed their company. I had a little copper money in my pocket and distributed it among them, and they were profuse in their ex pressions of 'god bless you, mister. All then ran home except the two eldest, who accompanied me back to town, and Isoon after went on board the tender, with the mail bags, and returned to the Arizona. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.