Cut aloof from your degrading habits and associates here, and, in fighting for the freedom of the Texans, regain your own.' "The man seemed much moved.

He caught up his gambling instruments, thrust them into his pocket, with hasty strides traversed the floor two or three times, and then exclaimed: "'By heaven, I will try to be a man again.

I will live honestly, or die bravely.

I will go with you to Texas.'" To confirm him in his good resolution, Crockett "asked him to liquor." At Natchitoches, Crockett encountered another very singular character.
He was a remarkably handsome young man, of poetic imagination, a sweet singer, and with innumerable scraps of poetry and of song ever at his tongue's end.

Honey-trees, as they were called, were very abundant in Texas The prairies were almost boundless parterres of the richest flowers, from which the bees made large quantities of the most delicious honey.