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find a safe retreat. Several more strangers were in in the even* 
ing. A gentleman, just arrived from Massachusetts, is very ill, 
and sends up for doctor’s attendance upon him. Doctor brought 
from Missouri a jar of butter— the first we have had — and some 
potatoes. 
19 th .‘—A large carriage-load went down to the Wakarusa to 
visit the proposed site of a new town. I enjoyed the quiet occa¬ 
sioned by their absence beyond measure, and realized more fully 
than ever the truth of the injunction: 
ss Be to thyself a palace, 
Else the world will be thy jail . 55 
They returned late in the evening, much pleased with the coun¬ 
try and scenery. Their adventures, in crossing the Wakarusa at 
high water, occasioned more merriment in the retrospect than in 
the moment when the water was coming into the carriage-body 
over the top. They were delayed an hour by the straying off of 
one of their party, which came near preventing their return that 
night, as the water was rising ve’ry fast. 
20 th. — All went to church save E. and I, and the three-year- 
old boy, who intended to rule every one around him. A little 
decision proved very salutary with him, and we had a quiet morn¬ 
ing. As we were nearly through supper a whistle sounded. Each 
one of us looked at every other in blank astonishment, until some 
one said, “ It is the cars.” The thought of a boat occurred to me, 
and was quickly spoken. The table was vacated in a trice. Some 
were looking out of the windows and doors, while others ran to 
the chamber windows. A steamboat was really in sight, and a 
pretty object she was as she floated gracefully towards the landing, 
now behind this building, and now that, with the tall old forest 
for a background. A friend brings in some wild strawberries. 
How they bring back days long ago, when we knew where the 
sweetest grew, and, with merry school-friends, travelled far for 
them through the dim woods down into the meadow! 
21s£. — A bright May morning, clear and sunny, reminding one 
of the beautiful poem of Willis: 
