January 23, 2013

After the whole thing had happened I tried to stay away from Mr. Heron. Every time he came in to the tavern I would go and do something else. Sometimes we would get letters from Sam, Mother was going to write back but Father said no. But when another one came Mother said she was writing back to him no matter what Father said. Father was mad and stomped out of the house because he knew Mother was going to write back to him. Anyways Father was planning a usual trip to Verplanck's Point. This was the first time I would go with him. We went up there to get cattle to sell to traders so they could buy stuff for the tavern. It would take six days to finish the trip. As we were driving the cattle we could hardly hear each other. I didn't even hear the horsemen come up from behind. I tried to pole over. They came up and told us to stop. They wanted are cattle. He hit my father with his gun and knocked him down. Then they all started to leave for some reason. Until I saw that there were other people after them. They have been trying to get them all day they were cattle thieves.