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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 COLONEL, -- I am in trouble. I shot a lady in the eye, but I did not intend to hit the lady; I was shooting at my wife."