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x PAGE CHAPTER XIV. Ristori, and the Course of True Love — A Proposal on the House-top— Gideon's Band — A Letter from Charles C. Leland — Breitmann in Kansas — Clever Rogues Escape from the Guard-House — Marketing in Junc- tion City — Crossing a Swollen River — The Story of Johnnie — An Expedition Leaves Fort Riley for a Campaign 440-48/ CHAPTER XV. A Prairie Fire — Letters from the General— Lending a Dog for a Bedfellow — Beauty's Bows and Beaux — Negro Recruits Turn the Post into a Circus — Ladies Fired on by a Sentinel — The Sugar Mutiny — Small- pox in the Garrison — General Gibbs Restores Order — An Earthquake at Fort Riley 488-514 CHAPTER XVL Extracts from General Custer's Letters— The March from Fort Riley to Fort Harker— Dogs and Horses on their First Western Campaign— Experiences in Messing in a Country Void of Supplies— Chasing Jack-rabbits. . 515-530 j CHAPTER XVII. I Extracts from Letters to General Custer— Crossing Fox | River — Account of the Undisciplined Troops — War's Alarms — Mourning for Custis Lee 531-549 CHAPTER XVIII. Gratitude — A Great Snow-Storm — The Sibley Tent — General Custer Defines his Ambition — The Cook Devises Strange Additions to the Bill of Fare — Gen- eral Hancock Holds a Council with the Chiefs of the Cheyennes — The Indian Nobility Request that their Supper be Served before the Talk — The Pipe of Peace — A Hint for Further Refreshments — General Custer Visits the Villages of Sioux, Apaches and Cheyennes — A Deputation of Three Hundred Warriors and Chiefs in Battle Line — The General's Description of Them — Civilized and Barbarous Warfare Confronting Each Other — Flight of the Indians — General Custer and his Regiment are sent in Pursuit — Extracts from General Custer's Letters Written from Fort Larned. . 550-561