These covers
and big pockets will be folded and put in the roll of bedding every
morning.
There are not enough ambulances to go around, so I had my choice
between being crowded in with other people, or going in a big army
wagon by myself, and having had one experience in crowding, I chose
the wagon without hesitation. Faye is having the rear half padded with
straw and canvas on the sides and bottom, and the high top will be of
canvas drawn over "bows," in true emigrant fashion. Our tent will be
folded to form a seat and placed in the back, upon which I can sit and
look out through the round opening and gossip with the mules that will
be attached to the wagon back of me. In the front half will be packed
all of our camp furniture and things, the knockdown bed, mess-chest,
two little stoves (one for cooking), the bedding which will be tightly
rolled in canvas and strapped, and so on. Cagey will sit by the
driver. There is not one spring in the wagon, but even without, I will
be more comfortable than with Mrs. Hayden and three small children.
They can have the ambulance to themselves perhaps, and will have all
the room. I thought of Billie, too. He can be picketed all the time in
the wagon, but imagine the little fellow's misery in an ambulance with
three restless children for six or eight hours each day!
Hal is with us--in fact, I can hardly get away from the poor dog, he
is so afraid of being separated from me again.
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