The New Beginning Saga Book One

By Robert Guenette

Henry looked back at Angela just sitting in her chair rocking back and forth, with her bonnet blowing in the lite easterly breeze, as he started to talk. Henry said, "Well if in I be piecing together some a the lumber from the barn 'n what be left a the house..." Angela interrupted him before he could finish and said, "ya ain't gonna do no such a thing Henry Thruskin!" "Ya wanted to head out west ta Oregon so now I reckon we should be going." continued Angela. "There sure ain't a dang thing to keep us here now!" She added. Henry was totally shocked at his wife's decision to leave after all the urging he had done in the past. But then he realized that they had survived and rebuilt three other times in the nearly eleven years they've been here and this time the damage was simply just too great! Reckon sometimes there be only so much a body kin be takin, 'n this here be 'bout time to be a movin on, Henry thought to him self. The family virtually had no money and almost nothing to sell as they pondered over what they could do to get enough money to buy a Covered Wagon. They would also need supplies if they were going to make the long and arduous trip. "The silver tea set!" Angela suddenly blurted out, "But Angie, ya never wanted to part wit that there set," Henry responded, with an astonished expression on his face. "We ain't got no choice Henry, ya go to the bank in Lawrence and see if ya kin sell it," Angela continued. Angela had asked Henry to put the tea set in a safety deposit box at the bank in town about four years ago. At the time there was a band of outlaws working the countryside. Angela certainly did not want to part with the beautiful set her Mother had given her, but if they were going to Oregon they definitely needed a covered wagon. "Yew should stop by the school teachers on your way back home and let Mrs. Martin know that the kids won't be goin to school till we get settled." Angela told Henry. "I will work with them on their studies on the trip to Oregon." Angela added. "Reckon so Angie, after I sell the tea set 'n get the wagon, I be a lettin her know." Henry said, as he stood next to her chair. "Well reckon it be the only way, I 'spose I best be gettin out to find them there horses." Suggested Henry, as he grabbed up a rope and headed out on to the prairie to search for the two teams. Henry managed after about half an hour to round up Jeb and Chance his leed pair of Chestnut Geldings. Henry had inherited this pair of draft horses from his Parents when they died of Yellow Fever almost ten years ago. They stood waiting next to a small creek, on a grassy hillside, simply waiting to be gathered up. Jeb, the largest of this pair of horses turned his huge, but gentle head, back towards Henry. Henry slipped the halter rope he carried over the huge horse's muzzle and behind his head as he grabbed a handful of mane and swung up onto his back. Henry spent another hour searching for the second team that he had bought three years ago. Henry knew when he bought this pair that he really could have gotten along without them. But Seth Hansen at the Freight Office was selling them and Henry traded two pigs plus an extra milk cow for them. Henry also realized, at that time that if he ever convinced Angela to head to Oregon he would certainly need a four-horse team to pull the cumbersome covered wagon. Then after getting them all strung together with a rope he carried, Henry headed down the road to Lawrence, riding Jeb and leading the others in tow. Henry knew that Luther Finch at the First National Bank really admired the tea set when they first brought it in. Maybe he would still be interested enough to buy it he thought to him self.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CYCDDBJ3
• ISBN13: 9798883915245
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 225 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"