Crockett made a very bungling answer, which did not satisfy himself.

After the house adjourned, he very pleasantly invited the gentleman to take a walk with him.

They chatted very sociably by the way, till, at the distance of about a mile, they reached a very secluded spot, when the Colonel, turning to his opponent, said: "Do you know what I brought you here for ?" "No," was the reply.
"Well," added the Colonel, "I brought you here for the express purpose of whipping you; and now I mean to do it." "But," says the Colonel, in recording the event, "the fellow said he didn't mean anything, and kept 'pologizing till I got into good humor." They walked back as good friends as ever, and no one but themselves knew of the affair.
After the adjournment of the Legislature, Crockett returned to his impoverished home.

The pecuniary losses he had encountered, induced him to make another move, and one for which it is difficult to conceive of any adequate motive.

He took his eldest son, a boy about eight years of age, and a young man by the name of Abram Henry, and with one pack-horse to carry their blankets and provisions, plunged into the vast wilderness west of them, on an exploring tour, in search of a new home.
Crockett and the young man shouldered their rifles.