ects his works to be
blessed with Divine favor. I told him he must do better, or go
home. He promised to do better; also agreed that he would do the
begging for food and lodging, and I might do the preaching. I
accepted the offer, and in this way we got along well and
pleasantly for some time.

At the crossing of the Forkadeer River we stayed over night with
the ferryman, and were well entertained. When we left the ferry
the old gentleman told us we would be in a settlement of
Methodist people that evening, and they were set in their notions
and hated Mormons as badly as the Church of England hated
Methodists, and if we got food or shelter among them he would be
mistaken. He told us to begin to ask for lodging at least an hour
before sundown, or we would not get it.

In the after-part of the day we remembered the advice of the
morning and stopped at every house. The houses were about half a
mile apart. We were refused at every house. The night came on
dark and stormy, the rain fell in torrents, while heavy peals of
thunder and bright flashes of lightning were constant, or seemed
so to me. The timber was very heavy, making the night darker than
it would otherwise have been. The road was badly cut up from
heavy freight teams passing over it, and the holes were full of
water. We fell into many holes of mud and water, and were well
soaked.

About ten o'clock we called at the house of a Methodist class
leader, and asked for lodging and food. He asked who we were. We
told him that we were Mormon preachers. As soon as he heard the
name Mormon he became enraged, and said no Mormon could stay in
his house. We started on. Soon afterwards we heard him making
efforts to set his dogs on us. The dogs came running and barking,
as a pack of hounds always do.

Brother Edwards was much frightened; but I told him not to be
scared, I would protect him. So when the dogs came near us I
commenced to clap my hands and shouted as though the fox was just
ahead of us; this caused the dogs to rush on and leave us in
safety. In this way we escaped injury from the pack of ten or
more dogs that the Methodist had put on our trail.

At the next house we were again refused shelter and food. I asked
for permission to sit under the porch until the rain stopped.

"No," said the man, "if you were not Mormons I would gladly
entertain you, but as you are Mormons I dare not permit you to
stop around me."

This made twenty-one houses that we had cal