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David Crockett: His Life and Adventures

CHAPTER XI
17/31

They searched for my satisfaction, and sure enough it all come out just as I had told them; for I had picked up a bullet that had been fired, and stuck it deep into the hole, without any one perceiving it.

They were all perfectly satisfied that fame had not made too great a flourish of trumpets when speaking of me as a marksman: and they all said they had enough of shooting for that day, and they moved that we adjourn to the tavern and liquor." The dinner consisted of bear's meat, venison, and wild turkey.

They had an "uproarious" time over their whiskey.

Crockett made a coarse and vulgar speech, which was neither creditable to his head nor his heart.
But it was received with great applause.
The next morning Crockett decided to set out to cross the country in a southwest direction, to Fulton, on the upper waters of the Red River.
The gentlemen furnished Crockett with a fine horse, and five of them decided to accompany him, as a mark of respect, to the River Washita, fifty miles from Little Rock.

Crockett endeavored to raise some recruits for Texas, but was unsuccessful.


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