Illustrating this fact, as well as Engelmann's energetic manner, his son relates the following incident : It was a bitter, sleety winter night, when the ringing of the doorbell awoke me, and I heard an urgent call for father from the messenger of a patient.
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Then she cites two examples of this undeviating " routine " : a sleety day in mid-January, when she arrives late because she couldn't get a cab and so she walked, and her hands are numb with cold, and she drops the mail as she pulls it from the box, and she yanks off her damp mittens with her teeth so she can tear open the letter from NBC _ which proves to be a tax form, not a check.
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In wet weather he took his hat, rope, boots, and spurs to bed with him; in cold weather his bridle came too . ( Wet boots were hard to put on, and a wet rope was stiff and hard to handle; a cold bridle meant a cold bit, and the horse would fight it . ) In rainy, snowy, windy, and / or sleety weather, he pulled up the canvas flaps of his roll and remained snug and warm ( the waterproof tarpaulin underneath him kept ground moisture from seeping in ).
