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up and going back to him, I found that his collar-bone was 

 broken, so I helped him on to his horse and took him to camp, 

 and returned at once to Richmond for a doctor, whom I had 

 great difficulty in finding, coming on him at last in a whiskey- 

 saloon playing cards. He returned with me and bound up the 



shoulder, but just as he was finishing H came in from 



shooting, and seeing how the bandages were put on, told the 

 doctor he could not know his business, as they did no good at 

 all as they were, the hones not being united, and that the arm 

 was not supported round the neck. The doctor immediately 

 flared up, saying that he knew his own business best, and 

 demanded twenty-five dollars (5) for what he had done, but 



as we could feel that it was as H said, we refused to pay 



him anything. On this he got very abusive, called us swindlers 

 and other names, when we told him that if he did not leave the 

 camp in five minutes we would put him in the creek ; so he 

 rode off in a furious rage, saying that he would come back with 

 some friends and clear us out, but he must have thought better 

 of it as we never saw him again. 



I have said nothing as yet of our horses, so I will do so here. 



F had three capital ponies, much better bred than 



the common run of them, and just the right height for 



hunting. H had two, but they were too large, being 



nearly sixteen hands high. I had my mare Polly, a bay horse 

 I had bought in Galveston, and a black horse, which has been 

 immortalized in a poem, being the one ridden by General 

 Sheridan in his twenty-mile ride before the battle of 

 Lexington, when he retrieved the fortunes of the day by 

 doing that distance in the hour. Tie had been sold as 

 going blind ; but this proved to be a mistake, and he was one 



