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"HURRAH FOR JEFF DAVIS!"

       Chapter Three

       MY FIRM RESOLVE

       THIS REQUIRED A LAY-OVER AT PITTSBURG,

       AT BELOIT, WISCONSIN,

       THE FALL OF FT. DONELSON,

       Chapter Four

       "LET MR. W. B. CRUMPTON INTO THE CAMP TOMORROW."

       THIS IS THE FIRST LESSON I HAD IN "SHUT-MOUTH"

       I STARTED OUT AFOOT DOWN THE RAILROAD.

       FORTY FROGS SEEMED TO JUMP INTO MY THROAT.

       TOOK THE TRAIN, WHICH WAS LOADED DOWN WITH FEDERAL SOLDIERS,

       AT DAYLIGHT I STARTED WEST TO THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER,

       Chapter Five

       THREE YEARS AFTER THEY SENT THE PISTOL TO ME,

       "THE ROAD IS FULL OF YANKEES."

       WENT FORTY-FIVE MILES THAT DAY.

       THERE CAME IN SUCH A MAN AS I HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE OR SINCE

       HE WAS NOT A PRAYER-MEETING MAN

       REACHING OLD 'UNCLE McCULLOUGH'S,'

       I FELT LIKE ONE IN A DREAM.

       YOU PEOPLE, WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN PRAYER

       MIND WAS MADE UP NOT TO REMAIN.

       Chapter Six

       RELEASED ON PAROLE.

       ON THE LOOKOUT.

       REACHES HELENA, ARK.

       BOARDED THE STEAMER.

       TAKES FEVER.

       BLACK COFFEE.

       FINDS ONE MAN WHO BELIEVED HIM.

       IN TEN MILES OF NEWTON.

       MY TROUBLES BEGAN AGAIN.

       THEN HE COMMENCED CURSING.

       REACHES HOME.

       "GOOBER PEAS"

       Part Three

       Introduction

       Preface to Letters of the Second Trip

       Chapter I

       OFF ON SECOND TRIP TO CALIFORNIA AFTER FORTY YEARS.

       MY HOME IN MARION,

       BUT LET ME BEGIN WITH MY TRIP.

       DRY DOCK

       "NOT ANOTHER BERTH

       GREAT SALT MINE

       BEAUMONT

       SAN ANTONIO

       THE ALAMO

       HE EXPECTS IT OF ME.

       THE NEXT TWO DAYS. "IT IS THE DRIEST, DULLEST RIDE I EVER TOOK."

       OUT IN THE BOUNDLESS PRAIRIE.

       AS WE NEAR THE DEL RIO,

       THE SEMINOLE CAVE CANON—

       WE BREAKFASTED AT EL PASO

       THE RIO GRANDE

       CONSUMPTIVE'S PARADISE

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