"Now what are they gathering cavalry out there for?
They can't expect to gallop over our walls." "Guess they've an idea that we're goin' to try to slip out an' they're shuttin' up that road of escape.

Seems to me, Ned, they're comin' so close that it's an insult to us." "They're almost within rifle shot." "Then these bad little Mexican boys must have their faces scorched as a lesson.

Just you wait here, Ned, till I have a talk with Travis an' Bowie." It was obvious to Ned that Crockett's talk with the commander and his second was satisfactory, because when he returned his face was in a broad grin.

Bowie, moreover, came with him, and his blue eyes were lighted up with the fire of battle.
"We're goin' to teach 'em the lesson, Ned, beginnin' with a b c," said Crockett, "an' Jim here, who has had a lot of experience in Texas, will lead us.

Come along, I'll watch over you." A force of seventy or eighty was formed quickly, and hidden from the view of the Mexicans, they rushed down the plaza, climbed the low walls and dropped down upon the plain.