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someone with a team for them or go myself. One evening I had Brother Herrick's team, taking them home from meeting, and the fog was so dense that we lost our way on the prairie. I felt very uneasy at the prospect of staying all night on the prairie with the mother and five children, none of whom were any too warmly clad. The larger children and I stretched out in every direction from the wagon in hopes of finding some waymark by which to determine our whereabouts. At last we ran on to an old straw-stack. The children said. "We know where we are now; this road that runs by the stack leads right up to our house." And so it proved. It was a great relief to me to see them all safe at home. A CHAPTER OF DISASTERS.The next spring we had baptism a mile or two from the schoolhouse where the meetings were held. A nice company of young people were baptized. How my heart swelled with gratitude to God, who had turned their young hearts from the ways of sin to love God and keep His commandments! After baptism I was going to take Sister Murray and her children home in my buggy. After they were all in the buggy there was very little room for me, so I said that Ralph, the oldest child, might drive the horses, and I would ride with some one else. Sister Murray thought her boy could drive all right, and so they started a little in advance of the rest. All at once there was a cry raised, "Whose team is that running away?" I looked up and lo, there was my team running, with the buggy turned upside down, with nothing left of the box but the bottom. With fear and trembling I ran up to where the family were dumped out upon the ground in a heap. Sister Murray's shoulder was dislocated, and was very painful. One little girl's nose was bleeding profusely. As she wept, she wiped her face with her hands, the blood from her nose fell on her hands, and she was covered with blood---face, hands, everywhere. I thought she must be badly hurt, but not a scratch could be found upon her. Poor Sister Murray suffered severely. A while after this, in my journeyings I came to Brother Quinn's, with a span of colts. One I was driving and the other was tied behind the buggy. I was going to Eagle Lake, where Sister Quinn's daughter Ella |