nowlisten to thisacross , across the wide , wide fertile plain of america in those early years , he began , that were then covered , covered i say kids , with teeming masses of frolicking antelope , the young antelope kicking their heels in the warm sunshine , which was the very best kind of sunshine , buttery yellow sunshine , just as though it was fresh from the churn , american sunshine of the western great plains , beating down on the fertile antelopes who in their multitudes were butting their small horns , like the horn of plenty , the fruits of many of unknown plants , plants sinking their roots in the dark prairie soil and lifting their leaves into the sun , across these plains traveled , ever forward , ever westward , by the teeming mass of covered wagons , carrying grandma and grandpa too and all the belongings , the quilts and bedsteads , the beans and coffee , and these wagons crossed the prairie , jolting , jerking moving over the grassy continent , carrying in them the possessions of thousands of family and those families themselves moving steadily westward , those pioneers ... into the sun ... sorry kids i need to visit the bathroom for a moment .