E, the night before we started on the expedition,
I heard him talking with a guest,--an officer of the British army, who
was
just back from India. And the extent and variety of his information
about India and Indian history and the relations of the British
government
to it were extraordinary. It put the British major on his mettle to keep
pace with him. THE PRESIDENT TELLING STORIES
One night in camp he told us the story of one of his Rough Riders
who had just written him from some place in Arizona. The Rough Riders,
wherever they are now, look to him in time of trouble. This
one had come to grief in Arizona. He
was in jail. So he wrote the President, and his letter ran something
like this:-- "DEAR
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