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diversions of his officers when off duty and did not disapprove a streak of wildness and dash in our recreations. The cultivation of a luxuriant crop of wild oats in his youth terminated by an early appointment in the Army by President Andrew Jackson had interfered with the Colonels education and his literary enjoyments were now mostly limited to Porter's Spirit of the Times and "Charley O'Malley or the Irish Dragoon?." He kept a file of the former and read the latter once a year. He was an undisputed authority on horses and all that pertained to racing as well as a referee? of all wagers. Social life to him was nothing if not that of a high living clerk. He had been bred to army life in the old Second Dragoons under Twiggs along with such men as Fowler? Hamilton, Pike Graham Sanders? and Blake when they were young and restless. They were a remarkable set of men and the only man who could damaged manuscript them without trouble was Colonel Twiggs?. I was damaged manuscript old officers that Colonel May had many damaged manuscript ways. One characteristic occasionally damaged manuscript his readings to buy? a wager on anything. damaged manuscript dragoon officer who had just arrived at the garrison was damaged manuscript the circumference of some of the damaged manuscript in a surreptitious moment and when damaged manuscript "May probably knows this measures damaged manuscript chances with him."