Domestic economy of this kind was as necessary here as it was in Vermont, and we knew well how to practice it.

About this time the emigrants began to come in very fast, and every piece of Government land any where about was taken.

So much land was ploughed, and so much vegetable matter turned under and decaying that there came a regular epidemic of fever and ague and bilious fever, and a large majority of the people were sick.

At our house father was the first one attacked, and when the fever was at its height he was quite out of his head and talked and acted like a crazy man.

We had never seen any one so sick before, and we thought he must surely die, but when the doctor came he said:--"Don't be alarmed.