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viii PAGE CHAPTER V. Out of the Wilderness— Our Camp at Hempstead — Hospitality of Southern Planters — The General's Deer-Hunting — A Baptism of Gore — Escape from Being Blown up by Powder — Eliza Establishes an Orphan Asylum — The Protecting Care that Officers Show to Women 1 50-1 78 CHAPTER VI. A Texas Norther— A School-Girl's First Impression of Texas — The Ants as our Thriving Neighbors — Gen- eral Custer 111 of Break-Bone Fever — Measuring an Alligator — The March to Austin — Chasing Jack-Rab- bits—Byron, the Greyhound T 179-208 CHAPTER VII. Byron as a Thief — An Equestrian Dude — Mexican Horse Equipage and Blankets — General Custer visits a Deaf and Dumb Asylum — Tales of Lawlessness — Pistols Everywhere — Entertainments at our Quarters — Eliza's Colored Ball 209-236 CHAPTER VIII. Letters Home — Extracts— Caught by a Norther — Longing for a Yankee Wood-Pile — Colonel Groome of 1812 — Jack Rucker Beaten in a Horse-Race — Ginnieand her Family — Our Father Custer's Dog 237-259 CHAPTER IX. Disturbed Condition of Texas — A Woman's Horse Edu- cation at the Stables — Leaving Austin for Hemp- stead — Sam Houston a Hero among our Offi- cers — Detention in Galveston — A Texas Norther on the Gulf of Mexico — Narrow Escape from Ship- wreck — Return Home on a Mississippi Steamer. . . . 260-290 CHAPTER X. Father Custer Gives an Account of how he was a Boy with his Boys on the Mississippi River — A Family Robbery — General Custer Parts with his Staff at Cairo and Detroit— The Silent Heroes — Temptations to Induce General Custer to Resign — Offers from Mexico — One of his Class-mates Enters the Ministry 291-321