9/17/2023 0 Comments Storyo pony![]() ![]() “With all this manure,” said the boy, “there must be a pony in here somewhere!” Where’s the pony? “What are you doing?” asked the puzzled psychiatrist. Then he jumped on top of the pile and began digging through it with his bare hands. Instead of holding his nose in disgust, however, the little boy shouted with delight. He took the boy into a room piled high with horse manure. Next the psychiatrist treated the optimist. “Don’t you want to play with these wonderful toys?” “Of course I do,” sobbed the boy, “but I’m afraid that I’ll break them.” “What’s the matter?” asked the psychiatrist. ![]() Instead of shouting with excitement, however, the little boy burst into tears. He took the boy into a room piled high with toys. The psychiatrist treated the pessimist first. Their parents became so concerned by this that they took them to see a psychiatrist. One was a total optimist, while the other was a total pessimist. The boys were twins, but had radically different personalities. One of his favourite stories concerned two little boys and a pony. Subjects: Wilson, Elijah Nicholas, 1842-1915 Shoshoni Indians Frontier and pioneer life Title: The white Indian boy : the story of Uncle Nick among the ShoshonesĪuthors: Wilson, Elijah Nicholas, 1842-1915 Driggs, Howard R.Former US president Ronald Reagan was famous for his sense of humour. Publisher: Yonkers-on-Hudson, NY : World Book Co.Ĭontributing Library: Harold B. Lee Libraryĭigitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young UniversityĬlick here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.ĭe. The one shot was all we heard,and we did not even see the one who fired it. I havesometimes wondered if that bullet was not sent especiallyfor me. That spring the great war between the North and theSouth broke out, and General Johnston sold all of thegovernment cattle and wagons very cheap, and wentback East with his pack mules. I bought a yoke of oxenfor eighteen doUars and a new wagon for ten. Theremust have been as many as ten thousand oxen bought atfrom twenty-five to fifty dollars a yoke. That summerthe gold mines were opened in Montana and everythinghad to be hauled with ox teams, and the same oxen wehad bought for eighteen dollars were worth from onehundred and fifty to two hundred dollars a yoke. Thepoor people that had been Uving on greens and lumpydick for two or three years now began to get very wealthyand proud. The young ladies began to wear caUcodresses, and I even saw young men who could afford towear calico shirts and soldiers blue overcoats and smokestore tobacco. I kept on swicging through the desertsConcord stage. iu the boot of the CHAPTER TWENTY THE OVERLAND STAGE Just before the soldiers left Camp Floyd, the OverlandStage line was opened from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacra-mento, California. Shortly afterward the telegraph linewas completed across the continent. Instead of the pony riders dashingon their wiry horses over prairies and mountain anddesert, now came the stage drivers with their sturdyhorses, four or six-in-hand, rolling along in their great Con-cord coaches, loaded with passengers, mail, and express. The stations, as before, were scattered along the trailfrom eight to sixteen miles apart, according to the water.These stations were mainly low dirt-roofed structures,built of logs or adobe or rock. They were large enough toaccommodate six to eight horses, and had, partitionedfrom the stalls, o After Johnstons armyhad decamped, the lumber left by them at Camp Floydwas used for some stations. ![]()
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