Our fellows are besieged, but I've got to guess at the besiegers, an' then I'm likely to guess wrong." They were riding very slowly, and presently they heard a dozen shots, coming very clearly now.
"I think we'd better stop here," said the Panther, "an' do a little scoutin'.

If you like it, Mr.Crockett, you an' me an' Ned, here, will dismount, slip forward an' see what's the trouble.

Obed will take Command of the others, an' wait in the bushes till we come back with the news, whatever it is." "I'll go with you gladly," said Davy Crockett.

"I'm not lookin' for trouble with a microscope, but if trouble gets right in my path I'm not dodgin' it.

So I say once more, lead on, noble Mr.Panther, an' if Betsy here must talk she'll talk." The Panther grinned in the dusk.