As that medical sharp loads me in, he gives me a bottle of this yere morphine, an' between jolts an' groans I feeds on said drug until mornin.' "'That old black daddy is dead game.

He drives me all night an' all day an' all night ag'n, an' I'm in Shreveport; my ankle's about the size of a bale of cotton.

Thar's one ray through it all, however; I misses meetin' old man Butler an' I looks on that as a triumph which shore borders on relief.' "'An' I reckons now,' says Dan Boggs, 'you severs your relations with the war ?' "'No,' goes on the Major; 'I keeps up my voylence to the close.

When I grows robust enough to ride ag'in I'm in Texas.

Thar's a expedition fittin' out to invade an' subdoo Noo Mexico, an' I j'ines dogs with it as chief of the big guns.