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Scudder's Journey to Texas, 1859
lough. With Barth the boys boated, swam, fished, and practiced
marksmanship. Horace was the least skillful of the four,
... hurting the tree as Mr. Barth said about three feet from the
bull eye. I improved however, especially after I discovered I had been
cocking the wrong eye. .... George was the only one who hit the centre.
On one of their outings the boys experienced a severe thunder,
rain, and hail storm. They took shelter in Torrey's mill on the
banks of the Comal, while the storm beat on the windows and
sides of the mill with a deafening noise. Some of the hailstones
were as large as hen's eggs. On the boys' return to the inn after
the storm had passed, they found that their landlady had gathered
three pitchers of the celestial ice. Their curiosity as to her purpose
for the harvest was satisfied that night at supper "by the appear-
ance of one solitary hailstone embedded in each plate of butter."
The time had arrived for the visit to the Collier ranch, but first
the travelers must return to San Antonio to pick up some luggage,
for from the Colliers they would go to Galveston and thence to
New York. They would have regretted leaving New Braunfels,
which they thought "much the pleasantest place they had seen
in Texas," had their thoughts not become centered on the home-
ward journey. The return trip to San Antonio was made notable
by the presence in the stage of Dorothea L. Dix, the philanthro-
pist. Arriving in the city at two in the morning, the passengers
had some difficulty finding rooms. At the first hotel at which
they stopped, all the trunks were unloaded under the direction
of a "yawning bar keeper," who discovered too late "that there
was not a mattress in the house to be had." " 'Speaks well for the
house' said the generous Miss Dix." The barkeeper offered to wake
one of the guests and give the lady his bed, but "this lover of her
species . . wouldn't listen to the proposal." The bundles and
trunks were piled on the stage again and the travelers drove on
to try their fate elsewhere. Miss Dix was finally forced to settle
for a room in a boarding house, but before she left the coach she
blessed the passengers one and all, including the driver. The boys
were given a cordial if sleepy welcome by Newman, their old
friend of the Reed House.
After a day in San Antonio and a happy time with various
friends, the boys set out for the Collier ranch, by stage to Goliad
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