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Title: With sabre and scalpel : the autobiography of a soldier and surgeon
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Wyeth, John A. (John Allan), 1845-1922
Subjects: Wyeth, John A. (John Allan), 1845-1922 Wyeth family Confederate States of America. Army. Morgan's Cavalry Division Confederate States of America. Army. Alabama Cavalry, 4th. Company I Soldiers Surgeons Medicine Surgery American Civil War General Surgery
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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s reign, if there was a canine in all theregion round about his Judea upon whose skin he had notleft the indelible register of his prowess, it was only becausethe other dog elected to keep between his hide and Majorthat distance which lent enchantment to the view. Whenafter one of these occasional joy-chases in the wake ofa fleet-footed vagrant he would return panting, with hisdripping tongue hanging out of one side of his mouth, andcome up to me to get the usual pat of commendation on hisback, he would sit down on his hunkers and in very humanfashion laugh at the comical figure the scared fugitive hadcut. And it was funny enough to make even a dog laugh;for few things are more ludicrous than precipitate flight,whether there be two or four legs in action. In my sol-dier days I took an active part in more than one cavalrystampede, in which for the time being my comrades and Iparted company with our family pride, which is anothername for courage. On these occasions, if on no other, I 24
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MAJOR AND HIS PUPIL WITH SABRE AND SCALPEL was inspired with the idea of leadership, and if the inspira-tion was of brief duration it was only because the horse Irode was not equal to the occasion. As one after anotherthe rattled troopers passed me in the wild scramble towardsafety I had ample opportunity to observe the earnestnesswhich characterized each individuals effort to annihilatedistance. Notwithstanding the increasing proximity of thepursuers, I registered the ludicrous features of the situation,and many a time since then, with bullets and sabres elimi-nated, I have laughed over these scenes. Somebody has said, or is said to have said, All the worldloves a lover, which is generally accepted as true. Thereis another saying that Everybody sympathizes with theunder dog. Elsewhere and in the abstract this may havebeen (or may be) true; but in our village it did not hold.When the bottom dog got on his feet, saw his chance, tuckedhis tail between his legs, and ran, every boy and ma

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