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es.Rogers collected these ponies and tired to drive them tocamp. But his horse was socompletely exhausted after the battle, that Rogers had to leave the ponies.On his way then he came upon a wounded Indian, laying on the ground with a carpet sack laying by him. This attracted Rogers’ attention. He got off his horse and started to examine the carpet bag. Then a white man rode up and says, “My son, why don’t you kill the Indian?” Rogers replied that the Indian was dead.Dismounting from his horse, the stranger says, “Dead,” the devil! Feel his pulse!”The pulse was regular, the Indian .vas alive, though looking like dead. They found the collar bone on his right side w'as broken by a rifle ball, so the Indian could not raise his right arm.“How long have you been sitting there?” asked the stranger. Rogers told him.“You may thank God that, that Indian is right handed. Lend me your knife!”Rogers said that he had none, lough he did have. So the
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Yoakum Herald Times
Yoakum, Texas, US
Tue, Jul 26, 1960
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