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United States Indian Service Crow Agency Mont Ty, June 15th 1886.

Dear Rogers

The report of the sun rise gun from Ft Custer has just been heard. (We can readily hear it when circumstances are favorable) The time indicated by the little round clock hanging on my table where we used to sit, is 4:15 ock and consequently I have over three hours to work ere the gentle call to breakfast comes to our listening ear. I purpose to commence some of Armstongs papers ere the morning ends. Have I written of Mr Chandlers misfortune in being bitten by a rattlesnake while near his camp on the Big Horn? He was bitten on the 9th, while engaged in teaching the Indian at whose house he was, to unclear out his little patch of corn. Mr C. came to a hill that needed unclear very badly. So he reached down to pull out some sconal?? stalks when the snake struck him in the right hand between the thumb and index finger. Mr C. got the Indian to help him saddle his horse and he rode into the agency a distance of between ten and twelve miles, and the day was warm enough one of