Edward Stratemeyer
For the Liberty of Texas
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066147280
Table of Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
"'Remember the Alamo! Down with Santa Anna!'"Frontispiece
"'You sha'n't leave this spot until you give up that deer, and that's all there is to it!'"27
"Following the trail of the Comanches"70
"'Hold on,' he cried to Henry Parker. 'Something is in that bush!'"98
"'Hold back!' yelled Dan"157
"'You rascal! Get back, or I'll shoot!'"212
"'That's what I call a pretty good haul,' cried Dan, enthusiastically"229
"He began to lower himself into the hole"258
FOR THE LIBERTY OF TEXAS.
CHAPTER I.
THE HOME ON THE FRONTIER.
"Dan! Dan! Come quick and see what I brought down with the gun!"
"Why, Ralph, was that you I heard shooting? I thought it was father."
"No; I was out, down by the river bank, and I brought down the finest deer you ever set eyes on. He was under the bunch of pecan-trees, and I let him have it straight in the neck and brought him down the first crack. Now what do you think of that?"
Ralph Radbury's rather delicate face was all aglow with excitement and pardonable pride, as he spoke, leaning on his father's gun, a long, old-fashioned affair that had been in the family's possession for many years. Ralph was but a boy of eight, although years of life in the open air had given him the appearance of being older.
"What do I think?" cried Dan, who was Ralph's senior by six years. "I think you'll become a second Davy Crockett or Dan'l Boone if you keep on. It's a wonder the deer let you come so close. The wind is blowing toward the stream."
"I trailed around to the rocks where we had the tumble last winter, and then I came up as silently as a Comanche after a scalp. I was just about ready to fire when the deer took alarm, but I caught him when he raised his head, and all he gave was one leap and it was all over. Where is father? I must tell him." And