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Excerpt from Heel-Fly Time in Texas: A Story of the Civil War Period In the early part of February, 1864, Mr. Cox came to me and said that back home on the Colorado he had a span of large mules and that if I would venture that far into Texas, get those mules, and bring them to him in Matamoras, he would give me two hundred dollars in gold. He would furnish me a good horse and saddle and pay all expenses. He was running a hack line in the city, doing a general transfer business and stood in great need of the mules. A good mule at that time was worth $300 to $350 and there was, none in the market. Well but what about the 'heel Flies' Mr. Cox? Said I, The woods are full of those pesky Home Guards, and I wouldn't like to be caught. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.