The west-bound paused at the Missouri, as once they had paused at the Don.

A voice arose, of some young man back among the wagons busy at his work, paraphrasing an ante-bellum air:

Oh, then, Susannah,

Don't you cry fer me!

I'm goin' out to Oregon,

With my banjo on my knee!


[pg 17]

CHAPTER II -THE EDGE OF THE WORLD