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Las Cruces at once. I was only too glad to find 

 him so easily pleased and I returned to El Paso 

 and sent, his family on their way to Las Cruces. 



A few weeks later I heard he was in jail at 

 Albuquerque, New Mexico. He had only been 

 in Las Cruces a few days when he went on 

 another "tear," spending every dollar he had 

 earned. To go the limit he had "soaked'' his 

 instruments to a liveryman and, then, still drunk, 

 he had stolen them from the fellow before night. 



His wife and the children "went back to her 

 folks." 



Later I heard that Asa finally reached Cali- 

 fornia. 



Note: "Doc" Asa is still in his old ways; re- 

 cently he was telling a friend of the publisher 

 that on his return from California to Abilene that 

 they met him with four brass bands and that 

 about 2000 people marched with him to his hotel. 

 Quite a cordial reception for old "Doc." 



