For the Liberty of Texas

and see what I broug

ou I heard shooting? I

r set eyes on. He was under the bunch of pecan-trees, and I let him have it straig

on his father's gun, a long, old-fashioned affair that had been in the family's possession for many years. Ral

you'll become a second Davy Crockett or Dan'l Boone if you keep on. It's a w

er a scalp. I was just about ready to fire when the deer took alarm, but I caught him when he raised his head, and a

ght he went off to look up those hogs that got away last Saturday. I

were on their way to Bexar

mistake in judging a man, Ralph. Either the hogs got away by themse

saw one of the Indians farther up the river. As soon as I looked that way he dod

took on a look of deep concern. "You are not real s

even if it was an Indian it might

it was Tom he wouldn't hide away after you had spotted him. More than likely it was a

think--" Ralph p

let us look at the deer, and let us try to fin

as so pleased to bring down the dee

is gun-barrel has a chance to cool. Put in your load at once, and I'll bring along that Mexican escopeta father tra

it wasn't all right. But why must we both be

. Poke Stover knows them like a book, and he says they are just aching to g

't be safe to leave the cabin alo

more than an hour, at the most," concluded Dan Radbury, as h

er wild animals, wild horses, and inhabited only by the savage and lawless Comanche, Apache, Cherokee, and numerous other tribes of Indians. As regards the rest of the State, it may briefly be stated that this immense territory of thousands of square miles contained not over twenty-two thousand white and black people combine

ife, and, almost broken-hearted, the planter had sold off his remaining interest in the plantation for five thousand dollars, and emigrated, first to New Orleans, and then to his present home. The trip from New Orleans had been made in a prairie wagon, drawn by a double yoke of oxen, and had consumed many weeks, and that trip over the prairies, through

grant of land embracing over five hundred acres, the tract lying on both sides of the stream. The price paid for the land was te

Radbury forget his grief over the loss of his wife and property, and the rough outdoor life had made Daniel Radbury "as tough as a pine-knot," as he was wont to say himself. It had likewise done much for little Ralph,

hed his cattle, which speedily grew to the number of several hundred heads. In addition to his beeves he had nearly a hundred hog

ed to ride so well that even the liveliest of the animals failed to shake one or the other off

ld cry. "There is no better sport in the world

Mr. Radbury, but had pleaded his innocence, and the pioneer had dropped the matter rather than have more trouble, since it was known that the half-breed and the Comanches in the neighbourhood were closely related in all their underhanded work. In those days it was no u