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Chapter XIII? Home again - Indian Calculation - Indian Dexterity - Taking the Gholeu? - Surveying again. On a bright mild morning I took my rifle, mounted my horse and biding adieu to the dear relatives in nalauua? yoo or zoo? set my face homeward by the way of Peely? ear? Prane?. The only incident of this journey worth mentioning occured on the morning of my departure. A two hour's ride brought me to a creek. While crossing the bridge I ecpied? two wild ducks "sitting on a rail", a short G's? tance down the stream. I dismanded?, got within range and, as they were lilling?", fired and put my full through the necks of both, and I had the pleasure of sending them to my second cousins Ann and Mary by a tracellen? when I met. I arrived home "safe and sound" and again experienced the fort? that "there is no place like home." With the exception of a few days in the army?, until the fall, my time was devoted to my dear mother My leizure hours to reading, or to pihing?, hum? tiny and rumbling.