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THE RINGGOLD ARCHERS.

A REMINISCENCE.

BY FRANK R. STOCKTON.


When I was a boy I belonged to a small company of young fellows, all
under fourteen, who had banded themselves together for the purpose of
practising archery. Our company owed its name to our great admiration
for Major Ringgold, about whose valiant exploits in the Mexican war we
had often read and talked. He was a romantic man, and romance always has
a charm for the young, even when they do not understand it. The Major
was a brave cavalryman, and we had seen pictures of him charging at the
head of his horsemen, with his long hair floating in the wind. In this
long hai