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strong friendships and dislikes, of perseverance and 

 courage. 



' Being each supplied with a " tod of Bourbon," * 

 he muttered the salutation, " How?"t and, without 

 query from me, gave me the following informa- 

 tion : 



' " I know you 're Secesh at heart I come from 

 Arkansas, so guess you know what I be. Well, 

 that 'ere horse is no account not what he looks, 

 for he's well put together; but he's balky, balky 

 as be d d. Touch him with the spur, and he'll 

 sulk for a week. I have known him since John 

 Morgan's people took him in Tennessee, and he's 

 only here now because his last owner had to leave 

 him in the raid they made across the Ohio." 



'All this was true, as I afterwards learned, and 

 it revealed to me that my new acquaintance, as I 

 inferred from the precision of his story and the 

 minuteness of the details into which he entered, 

 was not only intimately acquainted with the sup- 

 porters of the bonny Blue Flag, but had lately 

 taken an active part among them. 



' Not many days after the above occurrence, 

 while snipe-shooting, I met Boyle engaged in the 

 same amusement. A better shot I had seldom 

 come across. At long ranges his heavy double- 



* A glass of whisky. 



f Copied from the Indians ; doubtless originally their abbrevia- 

 tion for ' How are you ? ' 



