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In a few days a summons was issued for every able-bodied man in all that region to repair to Winchester, which, as we have said, was a small cluster of houses about ten miles from Crockett's cabin. When he informed his wife of his intention, her womanly heart was appalled at the thought of being left alone and unprotected in the vast wilderness.
S. R. Crockett 'has rivalled, if not surpassed, Sir Walter'? The statement is, of course, most lamentably and ludicrously absurd, but it is made more than once, or twice, or thrice, and it is quoted and advertised. It is not Mr. Crockett's fault that he is set on this ridiculous eminence, and his name is not cited here with any grain of malice. He has his fellow-sufferers.
That put all the active work into other hands, and left him safe, even if the trick failed. Now, you remember that we traced the prints of Crockett's spiked shoes to within a couple of yards from the fence, and that there they ceased suddenly?" "Yes. You said it looked as though he had flown up into the air; and so it did."
So much had been said of him in the public journals, of his speeches and his peculiarities, that his renown now filled the land. The Disappointed Politician. Off for Texas. Triumphal Return. Home Charms Vanish. Loses His Election. Bitter Disappointment. Crockett's Poetry. Sets out for Texas. Incidents of the Journey. Reception at Little Rock. The Shooting Match. Meeting a Clergyman. The Juggler.
Crockett's point is that he was a hero for refusing to kick his own mother out of doors. He makes Mr.
According to Crockett's account, many shameful orgies took place in the little garrison. They were evidently in considerable trepidation, for a large force was gathering against them, and they could not look for any considerable reinforcements from any quarter. Rumors were continually reaching them of the formidable preparations Santa Anna was making to attack the place.
Crockett's personal whereabouts, as to his comings and goings, his engagements for the future, and his prices 'per thousand words, would have seemed to indicate that in him we had discovered a person of considerably more than the average height. The result of a completer perusal of his writings is not merely destructive of this hope. It is positively stunning and bewildering. Mr.
Vagabondage. Measures of Protection. Measures of Government. Crockett's Confession. A Candidate for Military Honors. Curious Display of Moral Courage. The Squirrel Hunt. A Candidate for the Legislature. Characteristic Electioneering. Specimens of his Eloquence. Great Pecuniary Calamity. Expedition to the Far West. Wild Adventures. The Midnight Carouse. A Cabin Reared.
The bullets from the jacals now swept the walls and the truth of Crockett's words became painfully evident. The Texan cannon fired upon the huts, but the balls went through the soft adobe and seemed to do no harm. It was like firing into a great sponge. Triumphant shouts came from the Mexicans.
About this time a Quaker, somewhat advanced in years, a good, honest man, by the name of John Kennedy, emigrated from North Carolina, and selecting his four hundred acres of land about fifteen miles from John Crockett's, reared a log hut and commenced a clearing. In some transaction with Crockett he took his neighbor's note for forty dollars.
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