The ball passed through his side, inflicting a very serious though not a fatal wound, as it chanced not to strike any vital part.

The wounded man was carried home; and the rude surgery which was practised upon him was to insert a silk handkerchief with a ramrod in at the bullet-hole, and draw it through his body.

He recovered from the wound.
Such a man as John Crockett forms no local attachments, and never remains long in one place.

Probably some one came to his region and offered him a few dollars for his improvements.

He abandoned his cabin, with its growing neighborhood, and packing his few household goods upon one or two horses, pushed back fifty miles farther southwest, into the trackless wilderness.