They carried their usual arms, two blankets apiece, light but warm, food for several days, and double supplies of ammunition, the thing that they would now need most.

Gonzales gave them a farewell full of good wishes.

Some of the women exclaimed upon Ned's youth, but Obed explained that the boy had lived through hardships and dangers that would have overcome many a veteran pioneer of Texas.
They forded the Guadalupe for the second time on the same day.

Then they rode by the mound on which the Mexicans had made their brief stand.

The three said little.