Water they had in abundance, and therefore grass and fruit-trees and patches of alfalfa and vegetable gardens.

Some of the men and boys had a few stray cattle, others obtained such intermittent employment as the Mormons reluctantly tendered them.

But none of the families was prosperous, many were very poor, and some lived only by Jane Withersteen's beneficence.
As it made Jane happy to go among her own people, so it saddened her to come in contact with these Gentiles.

Yet that was not because she was unwelcome; here she was gratefully received by the women, passionately by the children.

But poverty and idleness, with their attendant wretchedness and sorrow, always hurt her.