Meilicke Diary 4

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unlock her tongue either. Most of the Swedes and norweigns had a bottle or two.

At every station the train stoped for half an hour, and one place they stoped for an hour

to get dinner.

It was 4:30 when we got to Sangudo. there Andy met us.

We went to a hotel and got a room for the night for it was impossible for us to get away

that night. Andy come with the sleighes and one of our teams.

The train stopts on the south side of the Pembina river, So Andy had to find a place to

put in the team. The river was freezing over and the ferry could not run. And the only

way we could manage was to get a hand car and load our goods on and push it across

the R.R. bridge.

Before we had supper Andy and I walked over the R.R. bridge to feed and look after the

horses for the night. When we got there we watered them and queen got a touch of the

colic. We worked more then an hour with her before we could get her quiet. Then

Andy stayed at the place where the horses were and I came on back to Sangudo.

As the bridge and tressle is about half a mile long I was glad to step off of it, and it was

dark at the time which made it worse. '

Emma had already had her supper and was in her room when I came back. As she was

suffering from a cold she swatted her throat with coal oil and went to bed at once.

From St. Paul out the hotel got worse and worse, so when we got to Sangudo the hotel

was a very rude structure built of lumber and lined with building paper.

The beds were very plain, but were clean.

Eight years ago Gus and I camped below on the river about a mile east from where the

bridge. ln those days there was no ferry and we had to ford the river. If the water

happened to be high every thing had to be taken over on a raft and the team was made

to swim across. Once when our ox team refused to go into the water we got a lot of

stones and just drove them right in and they found it went alright. Then it used to take

us two weeks to make a trip to town for a load of provisions. Now the train runs twice a

week from Edmonton to Sangudo. And after a while when they get the siding on the