Look at them steers! Did you ever see anything go as slow as they do ?" "I'd like to see Ned again," said Will Allen.

"I'd be willing to take my chance with him there." "That boy of ours is surely with Crockett and Bowie and Travis and the others, helping to fight off Santa Anna and his horde," said Obed White.
"Bonham couldn't have made any mistake about him.

If we had seen Bonham himself we could have gone with him to the Alamo." "But he gave Ned's name to Colonel Fannin," said Will, "and so it's sure to be he." "Our comrade is certainly there," said Obed White, "and we've got to help rescue him as well as help rescue the others.

It's hard not to hurry on by ourselves, but we can be of most help by trying to push on this force, although it seems as if everything had conspired against us." "It shorely looks as if things was tryin' to keep us back," exclaimed the Panther angrily.

"We've had such a hard time gettin' these men together, an' look at this rain an' this mud! We ought to be at Bexar right now, a-roarin', an' a-t'arin', an' a-rippin', an' a-chawin' among them Mexicans!" "Patience! Patience!" said Obed White soothingly.