If you wish to stay here, then I say stay.

Do you wish it ?" "We do!" thundered scores of voices, and Fannin, moving a little to make himself easier, said simply: "Then fortify as best you can." They brought spades and shovels from the wagons, and began to throw up an earthwork, toiling in the almost pitchy darkness.

They reinforced it with the bodies of the slain oxen, and, while they toiled, they saw the fires where the Mexican officers rested, sure that their prey could not break from the trap.

The Texans worked on.

At midnight they were still working, and when they rested a while there was neither food nor drink for them.