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"This is Colonel Crockett's residence, I presume," said the stranger. "Yes," was the reply, with a smile as of welcome. "Have I the pleasure of seeing that gentleman before me?" the stranger added. "If it be a pleasure," was the courtly reply, "you have, sir." "Well, Colonel," responded the stranger, "I have ridden much out of my way to spend a day or two with you, and take a hunt."
He knew that the circle of steel about the Alamo was complete. Perhaps he would have failed in his errand even had he got by. It would require an unusually strong force to cut through an army as large as that of Santa Anna, and he did not know where Roylston could have found it. He started, as a sudden suspicion smote him. He remembered Crockett's hurried manner, and his lack of explanation.
As the horse thus bore a double burden, after journeying an hour or two, Crockett's seat was changed to the other horse. Thus alternating, the painful journey of nearly fifty miles was accomplished in about two days. When they reached the camp, Crockett, as was to have been expected, was in a far worse condition than when they commenced the journey.
New Electioneering Exploits. Odd Speeches. The Visit to Crockett's Cabin. His Political Views. His Honesty. Opposition to Jackson. Scene at Raleigh. Dines with the President. Gross Caricature. His Annoyance. Crockett was very fond of hunting-adventures, and told stories of these enterprises in a racy way, peculiarly characteristic of the man.
The slight protective works they threw up here, they called Fort Stoddart. These light troops, hardy men of iron nerves, accomplished the distance in about two days. On the evening of the second day, they reached an eminence but a short distance out from Pensacola, where they found the army encamped. Not a little to Crockett's disappointment, he learned that Pensacola was already captured.
"Didn't you ever hear about Davy Crockett's 'coon?" said Jack. "When the 'coon saw him taking aim, it said: 'Is that you, Crockett? Well, don't fire I'll come down anyway. I know you'll hit anything you shoot at. Now, I'm that 'coon. If it was anybody but you, I'd fight. But as it's you, Pewee, I might just as well come down before you begin."
Husk, in the Middle States, and in some parts of the South and West, means the bran of the cornmeal, as notably in Davy Crockett's verse: "She sifted the meal, she gimme the hus'; She baked the bread, she gimme the crus'; She b'iled the meat, she gimme the bone; She gimme a kick and sent me home." In parts of Virginia, before the war, the word husk or hus' meant the cob or spike of the corn.
David Crockett's homely motto gives the formula for all high success in life." "Yes; he spoke wisely. There would be few drones in our hive, if all acted up to his precept." "Few, indeed. Oh! I get out of all patience sometimes with men in business; they act with such feebleness of nerve such indecision of purpose.
But having once tasted the pleasures of political life, and the excitements of Washington, his silent rambles in the woods had lost much of their ancient charms. He was again a candidate at the ensuing election, and, after a very warm contest gained the day by a majority of two hundred and two votes. Crockett's Tour to the North and the East. His Reelection to Congress. The Northern Tour.
He reached the cabin, and his worst fears were realized. The nervous, voluble, irritable little woman, who with all of a termagant's energy governed both husband and family, had either become dissatisfied with young Crockett's poverty, or had formed the plan of some other more ambitious alliance for her daughter.
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