We're goin' to get used to it and have a wonderful lot of fun.

The time'll pass quick--you see." Then he would sing and get them all laughing with some curious bit of drollery.

They spent the night of July third at a tavern in Buffalo, then a busy, crude and rapidly growing center for the shipping east and west.
Next day there was to be a great celebration of the Fourth of July in Buffalo and our travelers had stopped there to witness it.

The bells began to ring and the cannon to bomb at sunrise.

It was a day of great excitement for the west-bound travelers.