CHAPTER XV

. A Gentile Den—Polygamy Discussed—Favorite Wife and D.

4—Hennery for Retired Wives—Children Need Marking—Cost of a Gift to No. 6—A Penny-whistle Gift and its Effects—Fathering the Foundlings—It Resembled Him—The Family Bedstead

## CHAPTER XVI . The Mormon Bible—Proofs of its Divinity—Plagiarism of its

Authors—Story of Nephi—Wonderful Battle—Kilkenny Cats Outdone

## CHAPTER XVII . Three Sides to all Questions—Everything “A

Quarter”—Shriveled Up—Emigrants and White Shirts at a Discount—“Forty- Niners”—Above Par—Real Happiness

## CHAPTER XVIII . Alkali Desert—Romance of Crossing Dispelled—Alkali

Dust—Effect on the Mules—Universal Thanksgiving

## CHAPTER XIX . The Digger Indians Compared with the Bushmen of

Africa—Food, Life and Characteristics—Cowardly Attack on a Stage Coach—A Brave Driver—The Noble Red Man

## CHAPTER XX . The Great American Desert—Forty Miles on Bones—Lakes Without

Outlets—Greely’s Remarkable Ride—Hank Monk, the Renowned Driver—Fatal Effects of “Corking” a Story—Bald-Headed Anecdote

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