We were now nine days from the wagons.
"Are we half way ?" was the question they began to ask.

We had to answer them that more than one half the hard days were over, if one half the distance had not been traveled, and with the better walking and getting hardened to the work, they would get over the last half better than the first.

One thing was a little hard.

All of our beans and flour had been used up, and now the wheat was about gone also.

We had cooked it, and it seemed best, trying to build up our strength, where it was most needed for the greatest trials, and now we thought they would be able to get along on the meat.