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The Texan Scouts

CHAPTER VI
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Praise from Sir Davy is sweet music in my ear, indeed.

And since we Texans have to stand together, and since to stand together we must know about one another, may I ask you, Mr.Crockett, which way you are going ?" "We had an idea that we would go to San Antonio," said Crockett, "but I'm never above changin' my opinion.

If you think it better to go somewhere else, an' can prove it, why me an' Betsy an' the whole crowd are ready to go there instead." "What would you say ?" asked the Panther, "if we told you that Santa Anna an' 7,000 men were on the Rio Grande ready to march on San Antonio ?" "If you said it, I'd say it was true.

I'd also say that it was a thing the Texans had better consider.

If I was usin' adjectives I'd call it alarmin'." "An' what would you say if I told you there wasn't a hundred Texan soldiers in San Antonio to meet them seven thousand Mexicans comin' under Santa Anna ?" "If you told me that I'd say it was true.


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