sake, would do this.'"

"And what answer made he? He said, 'A Scot kens how to grip tight to
ten years' labor as well as yoursel', Faulkner; and neither man nor
de'il can come between him and his religion; but--' 'BUT,' shouted
Faulkner; 'there is no BUT! It is God and our right! God and our right,
against priestcraft and despotism!'"

"Then every one of us leaped to our feet, and we swore to follow
Faulkner to Texas at an hour's notice; and Sandy said we were 'a parcel
of fools'; and then, would you believe it, father, when our boat was
leaving the pier, amid the cheers and hurrahs of thousands, Sandy leaped
on the boat and joined us?"

"What did he say then?"

"He said, 'I am a born fool to go with you, but I think there is a kind
o' witchcraft in that word TEXAS. It has been stirring me up morning and
night like the voice o' the charmer, and I be to follow it though I ken
well enough it isna leading me in the paths o' peace and pleasantness!'"

"Did you find the same enthusiasm outside of New York?"

"All along the Ohio and Mississippi we gathered recruits; and at
Randolph, sixty miles above Memphis, we were joined by David Crockett."

"Jack!"

"True, father! And then at every landing we took on men. For at every
landing Crockett spoke to the people; and, as we stopped very often, we
were cheered all the way down the river. The Mediterranean, though the
biggest boat on it, was soon crowded; but at Helena, Crockett and a
great number of the leading men of the expedition got off. And as Dare
and Crockett had become friends, I followed them."

"Where did you go to?"

"We went ostensibly to a big barbecue at John Bowie's plantation, which
is a few miles below Helena. Invitations to this barbecue had been sent
hundreds of miles throughout the surrounding country. We met parties
from the depths of the Arkansas wilderness and the furthest boundaries
of the Choctaw nation coming to it. There were raftsmen from the
Mississippi, from the White, and the St. Francis rivers. There were
planters from Lousiana and Tennessee. There were woodsmen from Kentucky.
There were envoys from New Orleans, Washington, and all the great
Eastern cities."

"I had an invitation myself, Jack."

"I wish you had accepted it. It was worth the journey. There never was
and there never will be such a barbecue again. Thousands were present.
The woods were full of sheds and temporary buildings, and platforms for
the speakers."

"Who were