The skins of animals furnished them with warm and comfortable clothing, easily decorated with fringes and some bright coloring, whose beauty was tasteful to every eye.

Thus the family wardrobe was amply stored.

Many might have deemed Crockett a poor man.
He regarded himself as one of the lords of creation.
Christmas was drawing nigh.

It may be doubted whether Crockett had the slightest appreciation of the sacred character of that day which commemorates the advent of the Son of God to suffer and die for the sins of the world.

With Crockett it had ever been a day of jollification.