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Ida Chamness letters, 1910-1922

1912-07-20 -- 1912-08-02 Page 19

-19- had to be taken another way back to Stavanger; over a road automobiles went. But only one way in the forenoon, and the opposite direction in the after-noon as it was impossible to pass each other. So the kind Sheriff made way for no one to pass that morning we were fixing to leave. I was carried out and placed on a feather bed prepared for me; and applied hot water bottles to my feet and body. It was a cloudy day, and snow on the road where we passed over on the second day of Eighth month;- my husband's birthday. Oh, the joy, and favor I felt it to be when I got to the place where I could be taken on to a steamboat the rest of the way to Stavanger. I could not see how I could ever be taken back until thus made way for." Ida Joel's statements again:-- I got out and walked, with my face towards the ground, looking down. These dangers affected me. We passed by the place were Friends' meeting house stood. And where Lindly Hoag paid a religious visit in his day. He dreamed of such a place whilst in America; and that he ate the fish out of the water there: which came to pass. The mountains are 4,000 to 5,000 feet high, and are covered with patches of everlasting snow. We had a meeting in Roldal. The Sheriff came to our meetings; and was so well pleased with them that he told us he would appoint one for us at his own house the next day. And asked us

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-19- had to be taken another way back to Stavanger; over a road automobiles went. But only one way in the forenoon, and the opposite direction in the after-noon as it was impossible to pass each other. So the kind Sheriff made way for no one to pass that morning we were fixing to leave. I was carried out and placed on a feather bed prepared for me; and applied hot water bottles to my feet and body. It was a cloudy day, and snow on the road where we passed over on the second day of Eighth month;- my husband's birthday. Oh, the joy, and favor I felt it to be when I got to the place where I could be taken on to a steamboat the rest of the way to Stavanger. I could not see how I could ever be taken back until thus made way for." Ida Joel's statements again:-- I got out and walked, with my face towards the ground, looking down. These dangers affected me. We passed by the place were Friends' meeting house stood. And where Lindly Hoag paid a religious visit in his day. He dreamed of such a place whilst in America; and that he ate the fish out of the water there: which came to pass. The mountains are 4,000 to 5,000 feet high, and are covered with patches of everlasting snow. We had a meeting in Roldal. The Sheriff came to our meetings; and was so well pleased with them that he told us he would appoint one for us at his own house the next day. And asked us