About noon they stopped to refresh their horses and dine beneath a cluster of trees in the open prairie.

They had built their fire, were cooking their game, and were all seated upon the grass, chatting very sociably, when the bee-hunter saw a bee, which indicated that a hive of honey might be found not far distant.

He leaped upon his mustang, and without saying a word, "started off like mad," and scoured along the prairie.

"We watched him," says Crockett, "until he seemed no larger than a rat, and finally disappeared in the distance.".