The regiment has been on
the frontier ten years, and everything that we had that was at all
nice had been sent up from St. Paul at great expense, or purchased in
Helena at an exorbitant price. All those things have been disposed of
for almost nothing, and when the regiment reaches Fort Snelling, where
larger quarters have to be furnished for an almost city life, the
officers will be at great expense. Why I am bothering about Snelling I
fail to see, as we are not going there, and I certainly have enough
troubles of my Own to think about.
This very morning, Mrs. Ames, of Sun River Crossing, who now owns dear
Rollo, came up to ask me to show her how to drive him! Just think of
that! She talked as though she had been deceived--that it was my duty
to show her the trick by which I had managed to control the horse,
and, naturally, it would be a delightful pleasure to me to be allowed
to drive him once more, and so on. Mrs. Ames said that yesterday she
started out with him, intending to come to the post to let me see
him--fancy the delicate feeling expressed in that--but the horse went
so fast she became frightened, for it seemed as though the telegraph
poles were only a foot apart. She finally got the horse turned around
and drove back home, when her husband got in and undertook to drive
him, but with no better success; but he, too, started the horse toward
his old home.
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