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A Memory of the Gulf Coast. 
MANY, many years ago, I was a youngster and 
semi-attached to a command of our country’s 
brave defenders, who did duty along the Florida 
Gulf coast. I was fond of a gun, as what boy is 
not? Upon one occasion a small detachment of 
our command was encamped upon a small grassy 
island off the coast of Texas. It was plentifully 
stocked with deer, and the easiest way to get 
them was for the hunter to bury himself in the 
sand and wait for them to come within range. 
One day LI borrowed a gun from the engineer, 
and set out on a deer hunt by myself. Proceed- 
ing about three miles I sighted the game, picketed 
my horse, crept up as near as I could safely, 
scooped out a hole in the sand and covered my- 
self up, all except head and arms, completing the 
“blind” by some tufts of grass I had plucked for 
the purpose. The deer were feeding quietly but 
approached my hiding place very slowly. The 
sand was warm and comfortable, and without a 
thought I dropped asleep. When I awoke, the 
sun was just going down and deer were feeding 
all around me at short range. Cautiously taking 
up the gun which lay in front of me, I got ready 
for a shot. Then I concluded that I might as 
well get two or three deer, and waited for a 
string of them to get in line. At length a splen- 
did buck and two does came in range and I cut 
loose. 
When I again awoke the stars were shining. 
There was a peculiar feeling about my face, and 
upon putting up my hand I found it was caused 
by a thick covering of blood that flowed from a 
long deep gash in my forehead. Under my hand. 
lay the butt of the gun stock. I dug myself out 
of the sand and feeling around in the grass, I 
picked up a piece of gun barrel about eighteen 
inches long and split open through most of its 
length. Wearily making my way to where the 
horse had been left I found him gone and con- 
tinued the pilgrimage on foot to the camp. 
The next morning I laid the relics before the 
engineer with the remark, “Mr. , here’s your 
gun—two of them I might say.” 
“Yes, yes, but what’s the matter with it?” 
yeaa just what I would like to know,” I re- 
plied. 
He looked it over again and then asked: “Did 
you load it?” 
“No, sir; I supposed it was loaded when I bor- 
rowed it, and I still think it was.” 
Then he called “Sam.” An ebony chattel be- 
longing to him and of about my own age re- 
sponded. “Sam, did you load my gun?” 
“Ye-yes-yes, massa, me load ’m.” 
“How did you load it?” 
“T-J-I jes’ put in a heapin’ handful of powder, 
massa.” 
“Then what?’ 

“Then I jes put in four big bullets an’ pounded | 
em down with a iron ramrod as far as they'd go, 
but they wouldn’t go clean down.” 
Then I went back to the scene of the hunt to | 
gather up the slaughtered deer, but none were 
to be seen, nor was there either blood or hair to 
susgest a tragedy except around the sand hole 
where I had taken my nap, and they had never 
belonged to a deer. DopcEr. 
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