![]() ![]() If I have to range night and day to check "I despise a red thief like the devil despises virtue. "I'm a Texas Ranger and by God I range," he said often. Up a roaring campfire, but Inish Scull was not a normal commander. A normal commander would have made camp and ordered But, on the Ilano, it wasn't yet full dark in the night it would undoubtedly get colder, with what consequences for men and morale no one could say. All the rangers' beards were iced hard some complained that they were without sensation,Įither in hands or feet or both. ![]() The cold was intense and the sleet constant, cutting their faces as they drove on north. "This'll be good," Augustus said, to his friend Woodrow Call. ![]() Some of the men called him Old Nails, due to his habit of casually picking his teeth with a horseshoe nail-sometimes, if his ire rose suddenly, he would actually spit the nail at whoever he was talking to. These horses will need smooth use of their eyelids tomorrow, when the sun comes out and we run these thieving Comanches to ground."Ĭaptain Scull was a short man, but forceful. I've known cold sleet like this to freeze a horse'sĮyelids, and that's not good. "If you've got any sacking with you, tie it around your horses' heads. "Nor do I expect to have to make an exception in the present instance," he told his twelve rangers. Captain Inish Scull liked to boast that he had never been thwarted in pursuit-as he liked to put it-of a felonious foe, whether Spanish, savage, or white. ![]()
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