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Death Valley in ’49

CHAPTER X
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Arcane was much pleased and laughed heartily when he saw no one was hurt.

We did not think the cattle had so much life and so little sense as to waste their energies so uselessly.

The little mule stepped out one side and looked on in amazement, with out disarranging any article of her load.
Mrs.Bennett, carrying her baby and walking around to keep out of the way, got very much exhausted, and sat down on the sand, her face as red as if the blood were about to burst through the skin, and perspiring freely.

We carried a blanket and spread down for her while we gathered in the scattered baggage.

Then the oxen were got together again, and submitted to being loaded up again as quietly as if nothing had happened.


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