For usually, be it remembered, at that period of a child's life, both mother and infant are not out of the hands of the doctor and trained nurse, to say nothing of the assistance so gladly rendered by those near and dear.
The morning of the 28th of April dawned shortly after midnight, as mornings in Arizona generally do at that season, and after a hasty camp breakfast, and a good deal of reconnoitering on the part of the officers, who did not seem to be exactly satisfied about the Mexican's knowledge of the ford, they told him to push his pony in, and cross if he could.
He managed to pick his way across and back, after a good deal of floundering, and we decided to try the ford.

First they hitched up ten mules to one of the heavily loaded baggage-wagons, the teamster cracked his whip, and in they went.

But the quicksand frightened the leaders, and they lost their courage.

Now when a mule loses courage, in the water, he puts his head down and is done for.

The leaders disappeared entirely, then the next two and finally the whole ten of them were gone, irrevocably, as I thought.