"'Live an' learn' is a good sayin', I suppose, but a lot of them Mexicans neither lived nor learned.

It's been a great day for 'Betsy' here." Travis, the commander, showed elation.
"I think Santa Anna will realize now," he said, "that he has neither a promenade nor a picnic before him.

Oh, if we only had six or seven hundred men, instead of less than a hundred and fifty!" "We must send for help," said Bowie.

"The numbers of Santa Anna continually increase, but we are not yet entirely surrounded.

If the Texans know that we are beleaguered here they will come to our help." "I will send messengers to-morrow night," said Travis.