He appealed to those who could not go to the fight to give money to aid it, and on the spot laid down ten thousand dollars." "Good!" "Nine other men, either present or there by proxy, instantly gave a like sum, and thirty thousand in smaller sums was added to it.

Every donation was hailed with the wildest transports, and while the woods were ringing with electrifying shouts, Hawkins rallied three hundred men round him and went off at a swinging galop for the Brazos." "Oh, Jack! Jack!" In another hour, the rest of the leaders had gathered their detachments, and every man had turned his face to the Texan prairies.

Crockett was already far advanced on the way.

Sam Houston was known to be kindling the fire on the spot; "and I suppose you know, father," said Jack, sinking his voice to a whisper, "that we have still more powerful backers." "General Gaines ?" "Well, he has a large body of United States troops at Nacogdoches.

He says they are to protect the people of Navasola from the Indians." "But Navasola is twenty-nine miles west of Nacogdoches." "Navasola is in Texas.