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mean time I noticed with how little room one can make comfort and 
draw enjoyment. There were two beds, one double and the other 
single, looking so nicely with their white spreads and clean linen 
There were table, stove and book-case, all in the same small room. 
There were white curtains at the one little window; and the room, 
was really so small, that at meals they were obliged to sit down 
around the table before the leaves were spread, having everything 
placed on the middle of it. 
They say they would rather live in Iowa, where they came 
from. They do not like to live where there is so much disturb¬ 
ance, and, when the husband and father is from home, they are 
continually fearful lest some evil has befallen him. 
He soon came in. He is a tall, blue-eyed man, of most pre¬ 
possessing appearance, a native of Georgia, and has come to add 
his influence in the early settlement of his country, hoping to 
plant all the institutions of freedom. He said “ he had looked 
with indescribable interest upon all the means taken for our 
defence, and though as a minister he could not bear arms, he still 
has faith in Cromwell’s jnotto, ‘Trust in God, and keep your 
powder dry.’ ” 
As we were talking of the war, Mrs. —— said, with her clear, 
ringing voice, “ What does your old man think of it? ” 
I answered as well as I could, and am amused at this appella¬ 
tion, purely western, she has given my husband. 
The Missourians threaten to kill all our men, and save the 
women for a more bitter fate; and the black flag, now waving 
over their camp, is eminently suggestive of their piratical designs, 
— plunder, blood and rapine. 
The evening was cold and dark, and chilly gusts of wind swept 
around the house, flapping the flag wildly, while the staff strikes 
against the roof. The wind creeps in too through the half-inch 
siding, and the stove continually cries “more wood.” 
All this reminds us of chilly days coming, and of the cold 
winds, and snows, against which the unplastered houses are a 
poor defence; and we realize that this invasion, let it end as it 
may, is not only a source of suffering in the present, but in the 
future will be the occasion of distress, to this persecuted people. 
