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IS 4.2
Story of an Emigrant.
glorious to contemplate. Looking back to those clays I see
the little cabin, often with a sod roof, single room used for
domestic purposes, sometimes crowded almost to
suffocation by hospitable entertainments to new-comers; or the
poor immigrant on the levee at Red Wing, just landed from
a steamer, in his short jacket and other outlandish costume,
perhaps seated on a wooden box, with his wife and a large
group of children around him, and wondering how he shall
be able to raise enough means to get himself ten or twenty
miles into the country, or to redeem the bedding and other
household goods which he has perchance left in Milwaukee
as a pledge for his railroad and steam-boat ticket. And I
ol’r fikst home.
see him trudging along over the trackless prairie, searching
lor a piccc of land containing if possible prairie, water and a
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