"I was asking, Jack, how you knew so much about Texan affairs, and how you came so suddenly to take part in them ?" "Indeed, father, we could not escape knowing.

The Texan fever was more or less in every young man's blood.

One night Dare had a supper at his rooms, and there were thirty of us present.

A man called Faulkner--a fine fellow from Nacogdoches--spoke to us.

How do you think he spoke, when his only brother, a lad of twenty, is working in a Mexican mine loaded with chains ?" "For what ?" "He said one day that 'the natural boundaries of the United States are the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.' He was sent to the mines for the words.